Twitter Project

For our twitter project we followed teachers as well as other groups related to education. We tried to tweet directly to teachers for advice, but we never received any responses back. However, we did learn a lot from just following what the teachers/groups tweeted about. We learned from one tweet that the biggest obstacle in the classroom isn’t always your students or what happens to them outside of the classroom, it is your mood as a teacher and how you choose to interact with your students. It also provided a list of things that you, as a teacher, have control over everyday such as: facial expression, tone of voice, the words you use, etc. Also, some teachers use twitter to post things that worked well for them in their classroom, experiences they had in hopes that followers will provide feedback, any questions they have regarding lesson ideas or general help they may need. Furthermore, following groups such as the US Department of Education, Scholastic Teachers, and PBS Teachers provided us with information regarding issues, changes, updates, etc. on things that are going on in the world of education. Even though we did not get direct feedback from teachers, we still learned a lot by following them and reading their posts. We feel that using twitter to become connected with other teachers will be extremely beneficial to us in the future as students/professional teachers.