Twitter Post 2

After a few more weeks using twitter, I have been able to remind myself to use it as often as possible. Still, I have difficulties engaging with twitter due to the lack of my use with social media. As I continued to be involved with twitter, I have become familiar with how to use twitter rather than the occasional re-tweet of an article I read from EdTech and edutopia. With the occasional re-tweets, I was able to be involved in a twitter chat.

When my professor told my educ 209 class that we had to participate in a twitter chat, I was concerned since I never experienced an online chat with people whom I do not know answering and replying to questions. I was involved in the first ISTEMLN chat of the year. Going into this chat I was not sure of what would be happening nor what questions would be asked. Before the chat started, I thought of a variety of things that could have been asked. Not only this, but I thought it would mostly be the people who were participating asking the questions and not just one person. Once the chat started, everyone who wanted to join the chat introduced ourselves. As the chat began, I noticed that many of students who attend Trinity Christian College participated in this chat. This chat was very different from what I originally thought it was going to be. The questions that were asked in the chat involved asking my own experiences with different technology tools that could be used in a classroom. When the questions were asked, I had to think about what to say because I was never asked these kinds of questions before. One questions asked about what technology tool transformed my teaching and the students learning in math and science. Since I am currently still a student and not teaching, I had to think about what I technology I used in high school. As I thought back, I remembered my math teacher having us use Desmos to graph functions, lines, parabolas, etc. in trigonometry. 

In the end of the twitter chat, I was pleased of seeing a variety of answers the teachers gave in which technology tools they used in their classroom. By reading these answers, I am able to become a bit more familiar with what tools are out there to use in any classroom setting. I still am on the edge of not using twitter in the near future only because I would rather not use social media as often. In the mean time, I can now see why many have twitter for educational purposes. Twitter allows one person to share their ideas, classroom projects, and a variety of technology tools, including some video games like Minecraft, for others to then gather information and ideas to then create their own lessons involving these tools for their classroom. From what I have seen so far, there are some things I might take from twitter to use in my future classroom when introducing technology to my elementary students.