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Twitter in Education

One idea that was brought up in class was the idea of using Twitter for educational purposes.  We broke up into groups and discussed how this could be possible.  Our group talked about how awful "ice breakers" are with the ffirst couple of weeks of class, and we went with that thinking, 'well what if we could use Twitter to introduce ourselves?' What we were thinking is that in the first week of class, the teacher introduces the students to Twitter if they are not already familiar with it.  Then, when the students are familiar, have them introduce themselves using Twitter. This would take a lot of the awkward ice breakers put of the equation.

Examples of Blogging in Education

A couple of examples of the use of blogging in education would be the two websites: edublogs.org and Wordpress.com. Edublogs tends to be used in a more educated sense and is addressed more towards a teacher/student interaction, in particular high school and college. Wordpress is more of a general type of blog and not necessarily aimed at education, however I know of a couple of college English classes that use the blog to reflect on certain classes or to bounce ideas off of each other for a paper topic.  In the English class that is my example, there are usually small comments made by the classmates if they have any general suggestions or if they think that the topic or the reflection is interesting.  As I am more familiar with Wordpress, I am able to give better examples of how this is used as opposed to Edublog.

As a student of education, and being from the generation in which technology is a vital part of our daily lives, I will more than likely be using blogs in order to communicate with my students better because as the years go on, the number of students that are going to use technology will only go up.  I think that the use of blogs in teaching can and will be an important aspect of teaching as time goes on.

Introduction

Hello! I created this blog for anyone who is interested in becoming a teacher someday and is confused on how some technology could be very helpful in the classroom.  I will be posting little bits of information periodically on information of different forms of technology that is being used today and/or some that could be used in the future.