Journal 2: Join the Flock & Enhance your Twitter Experience

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 McClintock, S. (2010). Enhance your twitter experience.. (8 ed., Vol. 37, pp. 14-16). International Society for Technology in Education.Retrieved from http://www.learningandleading-digital.com/learning_leading/20100607?pg=14&search_term=JOIN THE FLOCK&search_term=JOIN THE FLOCK

In the article Join the Flock, the author explains about the endless possibilities of engaging and building relationships with other educators through Twitter. She mentions that in Twitter the information comes to her, rather than her searching for it. This article gives the reader step by step instructions on how to use Twitter, from setting up the account to reposting others useful tweets, managing your Twitter account, and even how to use hashtags.


Q1: Why must a teacher Tweet?
Our world has evolved and so should teachers. Teachers must learn to use innovative tools in order to keep up with the upcoming generations and a way to learn these tools is through PLN’s in Twitter.

Ferguson, H. (2010). Join the flock. (8 ed., Vol. 37, pp. 12-14). International Society for Technology in Education.Retrieved from http://books.google.com/books/feeds/volumes?q=http://www.learningandleading-digital.com/learning_leading/20100607?pg=14&search_term=JOIN THE FLOCK&search_term=JOIN THE FLOCK

In the article Enhance Your Twitter Experience, by Shannon McClintock, ideas are shared about managing a Twitter account. I learned that there are Twitter organizers, like TweetDeck and HootSuite, which help organize Twitter streams. The author includes a table defining terms used in Twitter in her article to use and get the best out of Twitter. I also learned about Bookmarklet, this tool is used when an article or anything interesting is found and is wished to share with others through Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Q2: How to exploit Twitter?
By using Twitter organizer one can get the most out of Twitter. The Twitter organizer tools can facilitate how we share information to our PLN and to make the given information more visible to us.


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