Twitter

So you got me. Now I am a "tweeter" a twitter follower. I created a page and checked a few pages I would like to follow only based on my current interests and of course listening to the radio. Hash-tag this and follow us on is very prominent in commercial media. I have avoided at all cost using this application because I have yet to see the real world importance, prevalence or need for this rant site.

I am still trying to figure out how I would use this application in the classroom other then responding to questions, adding events, assignments and so forth. If this is the case I feel there are more tools available that will serve as the same purpose. However, part of teaching in the 21st century is connecting to the learners and if this is their chosen medium of collaborative content and connectivity then as an educator I have to bite it and accept my role to facilitate learning in this forum.

Challenges: Creating the page is very basic and user friendly, there is not that much forethought going into setting up the page and creating a following.

Forgetting a password, there is a simple reset but until you are a full fledged tweeter you might have to check your spam box. I resubmitted a password submit 4 times before I realized it was being sent to my spam folder.

Here is a link to my twitter account: https://twitter.com/tiffany_parris

I did link my Google profile to my twitter account but I do not think that it is showing up on this blog.