As I look over social networks there are times when I feel as though I am spending too much time on the computer. . . therefore I disconnect from technology at least once or twice a week. (this has been hard being that I need to be at a computer during the weekend because of class) I literally turn off my phone, computer, and MP3 player and put a few CD's in the stereo and read a book or two. With that being said I am not a big fan of Twitter although it does offer a lot of viable information to educators. One of the site that I do enjoy receiving tweets from is PBS.com. It gave me some wonderful examples for my multimedia project that I used to share with my students.
The other really cool usage of Twitter that my students enjoyed was the polling application. The majority of my students have cell phones that have unlimited texting so as a review for our TAKS test we played a jeapordy styled game using this app, they had a blast and so did I. (I only had to convince our campus tech to lift the firewall for a day so that I could actually pull Twitter up) One of the other nice things that I can admit to that I liked about Twitter was putting out questions to other educators about 'beefing' up a couple of my lesson plans. This came in handy because it gave me another perspective from teachers who didn't have all of the technology bells and whistles that I so often wish for. This opened up dialog that pushed me to be a bit more creative in the classroom. A bonus for me and my students.
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