Journal # 2

Miriam Vidaurri

Journal #2

“Join the Flock” and “Enhance Your Twitter Experience”       NETS-T V

 Ferguson, H. (2010). Join the flock!. Learning and Leading with Technology, 37(8), Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-and-leading/digital-edition-june-july-2010.aspx

McClintock Miller, S. (2010). Enhance your twitter experience. Learning and Leading with Technology, 37(8), Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-and-leading/digital-edition-june-july-2010.aspx

Summary: The first article “Join The Flock” talks about how to start working with twitter. The article presents all the information that you need to know on how to use in an educational way twitter in seven easy sections. It mainly explains step by step what to do next and how to gather information from it. Now, I can understand why people think twitter is a good educational tool, teachers can learn from people all around the world. Mainly, it mentions how to start your personal learning networks (PLN)

The second article talks about how to the author has help having a twitter account. How her students got to know more about Web 2.0 by a person from New Zealand. By this it demonstrates how people from all around the world can cooperate in a same tweet and express their knowledge when it will never be possible without internet. It also talks about saving the information that is important for you because tweets disappear behind more tweets fast. I think is a good thing to be able and save good tweets because it will not be good to have something amazing for a few minutes, and lost it again in the world.

Q1. How teachers can use Twitter for their lessons?

A1. Twitter is a connection of social network all over the world where you can express you knowledge, questions, concerns, and much more. It can be use for lessons because you can ask a question about a topic and people from all around the world is going to provide their ideas. It is a way in which teachers can use ideas from other educators and to identify new ways in which students will learn better.

Q2. Why you need hash tags?

The hash tags are to make your tweet go to more people. In order for it to work you use the # sing before the name of the group you follow and it will be posted for everyone else that follows that group but not you. It is also a way to get more opinions, ideas and knowledge from the world.