When I first started reading the article about twitter I was still skeptical. I heard alot about twitter, I know the kids use twitter to communicate with their friends. But I never had a desire to use it. When reading the article and seeing the way the author used it made me rethink this technology tool.
I like the thought of using twitter to tweet new ideas about different educational activities, classroom activities and resources to use. I found it very interesting how the article talked about so many educational professionals that use twitter as a networking tool. That thought would not of crosssed my mind. The author also discussed how he uses it to just convey thoughts or use it as conferences. I really liked that. It made sense to me that I would like to use it at conferences when you can not go to all the session you want to. You can follow the ideas of the other sessions by using twitter. I realize this is just try small snapshots of information, but as a follow up I guess people can use blogs for more detailed information.
In the end I guess I would like to use twitter in the capacity that the author spoke about. A quick way to network with colleagues, and being able to ask and answer questions. I would like to try this for educational purposes not to follow some star and find out where they are having lunch. I think this technology tool like any other can be fun, educational and useful if used in the correct way.
I had the same feeling as you did - "aaaah, I'm not a celebrity follower, I don't need Twitter," but I have noticed its use in different ways. Tweeting about live conferences is clearly useful, but it's also been used as a journalistic tool to report on live events such as the Arab Spring last year and the tsunami that hit Japan when even news reporters were unable to communicate (or simply weren't there). Twitter certainly has some dynamic use outside of its role for the paparazzi!
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