The social networking powerhouses have went from MySpace to Facebook and now to Twitter. Twitter and Facebook share the same basic principle of letting people connect to others around the world. In terms of the classroom, Twitter offers the education field a lot of different choices. First of all, Twitter allows a teacher to post discussion questions, homework assignments, and to connect better with parents/guardians. A very important aspect of Twitter is the ability to get up-to-date news on the spot. A user can follow NY Times, CNN, Fox News, TIME, and many other news feeds. The new feeds allows students and teachers to keep up with the news that they prefer to read. This also benefits social studies teacher who may teach current events. The only drawback of using Twitter is that you are limited to 140 characters. Some may see this as beneficial, but some may see it as a continual failure of people to write complete sentences. Twitter, like many social networking sites, allows the user to make their profile private, which might be beneficial to most parents. Twitter also offers a Help Center which is useful and beneficial for the newest Twitter user to veteran Twitter users. There is an abundance of self-help resources if users have problems with their Twitter accounts. The categories range from new announcements, profile and account settings, finding and following people, to privacy settings.
This post was used from my SIG Project and was aided with the help of Luke Swanson and Jenny Gough.
Jeffrey Fisher 