Twitter and Me

My experience with Twitter is great. I have had my own personal Twitter account for at least two years now and I am on it many time throughout the day. I like checking to see what my friends have tweeted and getting involved in conversations with different people as well as seeing the famous people I follow and what they are doing.

On my professional Twitter account I really enjoyed in class how we used it to take our quiz. Since I am familiar with Twitter I was able to understand easily what and how to use it. I also liked how we use the hashtag with the class name so it was easy to follow the conversations that were going on while taking the quiz.

In teaching and learning I could see how Twitter could become very useful in a classroom. If the entire class was using it, it would be easy to follow conversations in the class if you missed class one day or if you wanted to add in your opinion as well. Teachers, students, and facility members could communicate very easily and quickly. I find it very useful in teaching and communicating back in forth with your students. I also find it useful because if you know that your students are on twitter and like to use it, more school work might get done because they will be on something that they like and like to do.

The Final Frontier

For this assignment we were instructed to read the article "Teacher Pedagogical Beliefs: The Final Frontier in Our Quest for Technology Integration?" After reading the article we were grouped together to make a power point presentation on google drive on what the article was about and how Technology should be used in the classroom and provoke people about the good side of the use of technology.

The article discusses how teachers use technology in the classroom and the different ways technology is a good thing to use in the classroom. It also discusses different teachers and statics and how they use technology in their classroom. It discusses different beliefs in other classrooms and the knowledge of teachers and their use of technology.

After being grouped together and collaborating with the group I realized that we all better understood the article better. After collaborating we all worked together and did our part of the presentation. We even discusses getting online at the same time so we could all work on the power point together and make comments to each other if we had questions. It was a good experience because we all worked together and did our parts and helped each other.

In our presentation we discussed the types of classrooms and the types of teachers beliefs. We also included the teachers experience with technology in the classroom and their thoughts. We added a chart of the statics from the article along with a video on the ten best reasons to use technology in the classroom. We added links to outside sources and finished the presentation with our thoughts on the use of technology.