Journal #2: Join the Flock, Enhance Your Twitter Experience
Ferguson, H. (2010). Join the flock!. Learning and Leading with Technology, 37(8), Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-and-leading/digital-edition-june-july-2010.aspx
McClintock, S. (2010). Enhance your twitter experience. Learning and Leading with Technology, 37(8), Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-and-leading/digital-edition-june-july-2010.aspx
When I made my Twitter, I was against it and I didn't want to join the crowd of tweeting. As I began to learn how to use it I realized that it wasn't so bad, but I still have a lot to learn. join the Flock helped clarify the misunderstandings I had about the world of tweeting. When I first heard about Twitter, my friends keep themselves up to date with the celebrity world so I figured it was another way to stalk people of their lifestyles, but I am shocked to see how you can follow anything, especially all of the education techniques. It is very simple once you start and it opens a wide variety of resources, information, websites, opportunities etc. "When I would find a great resource to share, I would send out an e-mail. If my recipients wanted to share the information, they would, in turn, forward the e-mail. Now when I find a resource to share, I use the bookmarklet Hootlet." To my understanding, Hootlet is a button through HootSuite that can send a tweet and act like your are bookmarking it to your favorites. People of this new age of technology are finding easier ways to communicate in a short and effective way. Going from email, to texting, to posting on a face book time line, to tweeting, pinning and Instagram, everything is short and to the point with absolutely no face to face communication involved. Some may find this weird at first, but I find it very useful when you don't have time to sit down and have a conversation with someone.
Q: "The wonderful thing about Twitter is that you can simply follow people and not say a word. Just read the tweets, click on links to blogs, and learn. There is no need to put yourself into the conversation until you are ready to be visible." Does this quote enhance a positive or negative learning experience? Are conversations becoming extinct?
I understand that this question is a little out there but this is what our society is evolving into. Yes I am attached to the technological world with my Iphone and my computer but this ongoing advancements are making our life styles pure digital. Everything is on a phone or computer through a website. People are meeting through sites where face to face conversation cease to extinct. I believe that Twitter is a good for ways to connect to people with the same ideas and same interests, but there is a downside with the level of communication.
Q: How can I implement ideas, strategies, or techniques from Twitter in my future classroom?
Because Twitter has a variety of ideas for education there are many things you can take from it. As soon as you use the hash tag (#) before a word you are allowing yourself to have people follow, connect, and browse through this entire network of one word. You will be surprised how many categories there are for every teaching lesson, and ideas. It is almost similar to chat room, where you can enter a room full of people and depending on what you choose to be associated with, you begin to develop communication between people. For example, My ideal grade to teach would be second, so I would use key words such as, #secondgrade, #lessonplans #languagearts, and so on. This will allow me to follow all of these topics and list them in a way where it is effective.
When I made my Twitter, I was against it and I didn't want to join the crowd of tweeting. As I began to learn how to use it I realized that it wasn't so bad, but I still have a lot to learn. join the Flock helped clarify the misunderstandings I had about the world of tweeting. When I first heard about Twitter, my friends keep themselves up to date with the celebrity world so I figured it was another way to stalk people of their lifestyles, but I am shocked to see how you can follow anything, especially all of the education techniques. It is very simple once you start and it opens a wide variety of resources, information, websites, opportunities etc. "When I would find a great resource to share, I would send out an e-mail. If my recipients wanted to share the information, they would, in turn, forward the e-mail. Now when I find a resource to share, I use the bookmarklet Hootlet." To my understanding, Hootlet is a button through HootSuite that can send a tweet and act like your are bookmarking it to your favorites. People of this new age of technology are finding easier ways to communicate in a short and effective way. Going from email, to texting, to posting on a face book time line, to tweeting, pinning and Instagram, everything is short and to the point with absolutely no face to face communication involved. Some may find this weird at first, but I find it very useful when you don't have time to sit down and have a conversation with someone.
Q: "The wonderful thing about Twitter is that you can simply follow people and not say a word. Just read the tweets, click on links to blogs, and learn. There is no need to put yourself into the conversation until you are ready to be visible." Does this quote enhance a positive or negative learning experience? Are conversations becoming extinct?
I understand that this question is a little out there but this is what our society is evolving into. Yes I am attached to the technological world with my Iphone and my computer but this ongoing advancements are making our life styles pure digital. Everything is on a phone or computer through a website. People are meeting through sites where face to face conversation cease to extinct. I believe that Twitter is a good for ways to connect to people with the same ideas and same interests, but there is a downside with the level of communication.
Q: How can I implement ideas, strategies, or techniques from Twitter in my future classroom?
Because Twitter has a variety of ideas for education there are many things you can take from it. As soon as you use the hash tag (#) before a word you are allowing yourself to have people follow, connect, and browse through this entire network of one word. You will be surprised how many categories there are for every teaching lesson, and ideas. It is almost similar to chat room, where you can enter a room full of people and depending on what you choose to be associated with, you begin to develop communication between people. For example, My ideal grade to teach would be second, so I would use key words such as, #secondgrade, #lessonplans #languagearts, and so on. This will allow me to follow all of these topics and list them in a way where it is effective.
