Twitter Experiences

Before this class I had never used twitter. I am a member of Facebook and do I do some chatting with my Friends there. After being on Twitter for the last few weeks I have learned so much. It literally allows you to connect and share with people all over the world. You can send small chats that are easy to read and convey ideas quickly. Maybe even a bit too quickly. I see this open communication being very useful to both teachers as well as students. I did find that following chats was difficult at it changes constantly and by the time you respond to one it has been buried under many more. If you take the time to get to know twitter it can be a valuable tool. There were so many that I learned from. The most useful was a #kinderchat that I was able to catch. We started talking about the importance of play. How many kindergarten teacher feel that is lost when student move up to First grade. I was able to share my own experiences and get links to research that would allow me to take these concerns back to my own school and see what is being done to solve this problem, that seems to cross state line and country boarders. There were several teachers on this chat from Canada. I would say I will continue to build my PLN and explore more that twitter has to offer.