I have mentioned this before, but I come from a journalism background. When I started my undergrad my track was "Print Journalism" and that is the track I graduated with, but my junior and (especially) my senior year the curriculum started changing from "print" to "multimedia." So, we adapted and started telling news stories just through the headline, we got our breaking news from Twitter, and our formatting was blog based. When I decided to pursue a career in English Education I wanted to find ways to utilize my journalism and multimedia skills as much as possible, so I started reading a lot about classroom blogs, websites etc.
I recently found this article on the use of Twitter in an English class and I was immediately drawn to the idea! I want to know your thoughts and ideas for using positive social media outlets in the content classroom. Discuss in the comment section. :)
Here is the link to the article for your reference: Bringing Twitter to the Classroom
Here are my thoughts: I think to connect to today's students we have to do more than try to understand them, we have to show them that we want to understand them! I want to teach my students how great it is to love to read, and how to appreciate a good book. I also want them to have excellent writing skills, relevant writing skills, online professionalism, and the confidence to share with their peers intellectually stimulating and positive ideas...not just selfies. I think Twitter/Blogs can be really effective in meeting those goals. I love this teachers use of Twitter and I plan on mimicking his strategy in my future classroom.
