Friday, June 28, 2013
#Thiswillbeastretch - Activity 6 - Twitter
I must admit that this will be a stretch - not the part about being on twitter, or frequently checking twitter, I already do that - but what I don't do is actively participate. I rarely tweet myself, I simply use it passively. It has been a great source of news and fun for me to follow the Northwestern basketball team and my favorite former players. How else would I know the latest from Strasbourg France where John Shurna played this year or that he just had a workout with the Houston Rockets. Yes, I even follow french tweeters!
My following also was just for fun. No professional or school related topics. So can I use it for school? Do I need more than 1 twitter account? One of the articles said you should have a focus as a tweeter. Do I tweet just school related ideas for other teachers, or do I use it to communicate with students? I guess this is what I will still have to figure out. I tried to catch a live chat on chemistry, but I was a little too late in the evening. I will have to give this a try next Thursday. So where is the stretch for me? I guess it is still thinking of what to say! Do I have anything that I want to add in 140 characters and who will be listening?
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If you are already on twitter and understand the use of hashtags. You may want to consider creating a hashtag for each of your classes. Many of our students are on Twitter. You can tweet assignment due dates, quiz/test dates, upcoming labs, resources. They can too, all using the hashtags.
ReplyDeleteAs for what to tweet outside of school, I tweet things I read in blogs or re-tweet other people's Tweets. I'm not a heavy tweeter, but I do read a lot of tweets.
Lisa, we should totally chat about this (perhaps through a live hangout? :-) ) I think if I was going to use Twitter for classes I'd make a separate school one. I mostly retweet things like Maureen. IT's fun to have followers to have a reason to tweet. Perhaps the followers you have dictate the types of things you tweet. Love the title of this blog post btw.
ReplyDeleteI have two separate Facebook accounts, but one Twitter account. With Twitter, I can tweet specific hashtags to get the attention of who I'm trying to reach. You could create a hashtag for each of your classes, your students wouldn't have to follow you, just the hashtag.
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