For my CEP 810 class this week, I was asked to participate in a Twitter Chat. I have used Twitter in the past for personal reasons but found it to be for entertainment, not education. The first chat was a slow twitter chat; hosted by my instructor. She posted a new question each day, for 3 days, relevant to CEP 810 and the conversations we have been engaging in. We had to respond to each question and then respond to 2 other response posts. I found this chat to be an excellent starting point. I learned what activities teachers are doing in their classroom, different types of mentors, and how the school is shaping up. My next experience was a #edchat on Tweet Deck. This started out as a frustrating chat and by the end turned out to be a wonderful resource. Early on in the chat, there wasn’t much conversation going on. One follower posted a question which I answered, but then there was silence for the next 10 minutes. I decided to post a question about collaboration with students. I have been having a difficult time with student engagement in a virtual setting and wondered if anyone had any suggestions. Within minutes, I had someone else respond to my question and then I had @teacher2teacher ask if they could post the question to their feed. After this was reposted the responses came flooding in and are still coming in as we speak. I feel like a kid in a candy store, excited with every new response that has come through. To be honest, I felt skeptical of twitter, but after playing around with it I feel that I have added new people to my PLN to connect and collaborate with. It is nice to know that we are all in this together!
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