Twitter Adventure: Week 2

All I can say is WOW! This week has been such a learning curve.  I’m must be honest and share that I’ve NEVER had a Twitter account until now.  I’ve always had a Facebook page, Instagram and most recently a Snapchat.  It wasn’t until I had to create a Twitter account recently for this course that I can now say I’ve started tweeting. 

I don’t see the big difference from my other social media accounts, such as Facebook.  However, there are a few differences such has in Facebook, I’m used to seeing a running scroll of all of my friends’ posts.  On Twitter, I don’t see that yet if it exists.  It looks like you have to go to individual followers to see what they posted on their timelines.  Another fun tool I’ve discovered and played with is the hashtag. This seems like a fun way to share common thoughts and basically be a part of a group.  The issue that I’m finding with hashtags is that I get so excited to share something, I forget to add the hashtag code.  For the most part, I’m enjoying tweeting.

 I’m excited to say that I did add Hootsuite and Flipboard to my list of tech toys and apps to start playing with.  Hootsuite seems like a fun tool to combine all of your social media to one centralize controlling spot. I also saw the feature for scheduled feeds. I think this would be cool if you have similar content going out to all social media.  For me, I’m a little more personal on Facebook with pictures, videos and jokes than I am on Twitter.  I’m still learning Flipboard and was able to post an interesting article about Google classrooms on Twitter.  However, I’m still learning to navigate my way through. 

As for my apps on my phone, I can utilize Twitter through Facebook and Instagram.  I have a news app on my iPhone I can share on Twitter as well.  With my iPhone, there really is almost anything I can share on Twitter. 

Being an educator, I definitely see the power of Twitter and students being able to share their common thoughts.  Being that I haven’t been in the classroom in some years, I haven’t had the opportunity to try Twitter in a lesson or for fun.  However, I see that Twitter can be a fascinating tool to allow students of this tech age to learn in a new way.  It definitely changes the teaching and learning realm.