Twitter Blog

Over the past couple months of being in the Technology in Education class, I have learned many new techniques and ways to get involved with other professionals outside of my comfort zone. One of those new skills is using Twitter as a connection device with educators around the globe. I began by creating a new twitter specific to my education platform. I wrote a small bio about who I am and what my future endeavors look like. Once I created my own page, I began following classmates and a few other Trinity students who I knew had also created a twitter for this class. By following those students, I was able to see other educators who they were following. I also looked onto a page my professor had for us to access and followed some of the top educators on social media! By doing this, I was able to slowly broaden my connections and see what others are doing in their classes. I immediately began retweeting and favoring a ton of exciting new information I had never seen before. I also decided to follow some of the websites we were learning how to use because they would post videos and links to help with different online projects! This was a super convenient way to learn more about the websites and be able to test them out to see which I liked best. I also loved watching daily updates about what my classmates were doing in their education classes and also in their observation classes! This definitely made it begin to feel more real than ever before. As I was tweeting about ideas and questions on my twitter, I was having principals and other educators who had their own classrooms message me and comment back to my posts. It was definitely an eye opener for me and made me so excited to get in touch with all these teachers from all over the states and see their ideas right in front of me. Seeing other teachers posting about lessons they are conducting in their classrooms make me so excited for a future classroom of my own. I try to get on my education twitter daily so I can stay in the loop of what is going on outside of Trinity and the classroom I am observing. Another awesome addition to this education twitter page I have created is I can add #troll209 to any post or comment I find helpful or interesting and all my classmates can then go to the hashtag and view all the tweets in one area. I love looking at what my classmates found interesting or helpful because I feel as though a lot of us are similar learners, so this will allow us to share similar posts or ideas with one another and then that will hopefully be brought into all of our future classes. Overall, I can definitely see myself using this education twitter past my college career. I want to continue to reach out to other educators and share our ideas and love for the classroom with one another. I think this is such a great start to the connections we as educators get the opportunity to make throughout our careers! I hope to create a social media platform that other educators can look at and get ideas for their own classes! Through the rest of this semester, I definitely want to post more photos and uploads of things I have been working on or creating in not only my technology class, but also other education classes that I think would be good to share. Every little bit I retweet or like gives me a feel for how I want my classroom ran one day. I love retweeting motivational words or phrases that principals have posted in their schools or what teachers have posted in their rooms. That is definitely something I want everywhere in my future room!