Twitter Blog Post #2

Yet again, the world of social media impresses me. Before this semester, I had no idea that so many educators use Twitter for spreading ideas, plans, and activities for other teachers to use and learn from. This way of looking at it makes it a great tool for educators, that they are able to learn from the good experiences and the tough ones from their peers. It can be a useful tool if you allow it to be.

            One area that I found particularly good from Twitter was being able to observe what my classmates were up to on their accounts. Seeing their opinions and ideas was a great experience for me and something I enjoyed a lot. I was able to see how they worked with the material that I was going through at the same time. For example, I was able to view my classmates’ opinions on projects like the Flip Project or the Smartboard Class Presentation. Some of them posted links to their videos or show pictures from their experiences. This was an area I appreciated a ton, that I was able to see what other people in my class did and appreciate their work.

            Another area I loved of this kind was the joy I could experience with my classmates through their posts concerning what they were working on. I saw the joy that people had towards formatting their own classes or organizing their projects to teach “students”. So many of us were able to share our excitement for teaching other people, and I too found this to be exciting. Being able to relate to and share the joys that I and others had in teaching other people. It was a great experience to do these projects and then look around and see other people excited about them too.

            All in all, the experiences on Twitter were what Twitter is supposed to be for educators: connection, appreciating and learning. I learned about different ideas and opinions, looking at how they each affected how a person taught and interacted with students and teaching. I focused in at appreciating my classmates’ work. I was able to appreciate how they did their assignments and how hard they worked at them. They shared a piece of themselves in how they did their projects. Lastly, I was able to connect with my fellow future educators in how we did our assignments. We were able to appreciate and relate to each other in the similarities of what we did.