This blog post is about using Twitter in the classroom. As I mostly spend my days with the elementary set, this is a little more difficult task. Almost all my students are under the Twitter age threshold of 13. Of course, barring that our county blocks Twitter. So that is a big wall to get over. I really enjoy Twitter and have talked several people into using it. It is a little "Schizophrenic" to follow until you get the hang of it. But lots of good education ideas on there. The trick is to find the right people or stuff to follow. If I was going to use it in the classroom, I would think it would be good for current events and especially government study. As a class, I would have the students follow the WV Legislature, the Governor, and they could also follow specific bills and see who is interested and tweeting about what is going on in the bills. I think it would be interesting to follow bills from committee to the Senate, to the House and then to the Governor. Government in action and current events all rolled into one. Pretty good use of Social Media and learning I think.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
#17 Twitter in the Classroom
This blog post is about using Twitter in the classroom. As I mostly spend my days with the elementary set, this is a little more difficult task. Almost all my students are under the Twitter age threshold of 13. Of course, barring that our county blocks Twitter. So that is a big wall to get over. I really enjoy Twitter and have talked several people into using it. It is a little "Schizophrenic" to follow until you get the hang of it. But lots of good education ideas on there. The trick is to find the right people or stuff to follow. If I was going to use it in the classroom, I would think it would be good for current events and especially government study. As a class, I would have the students follow the WV Legislature, the Governor, and they could also follow specific bills and see who is interested and tweeting about what is going on in the bills. I think it would be interesting to follow bills from committee to the Senate, to the House and then to the Governor. Government in action and current events all rolled into one. Pretty good use of Social Media and learning I think.
Monday, April 1, 2013
#9 Learn something from a Podcast
I have listened to podcasts for awhile. My favorite time to listen to podcasts is when I am walking. I feel like I am killing two birds with one stone. I get really bored walking and I don't feel like I have time to listen to podcasts and do nothing else. My days get really full and this provides a pretty good solution.
I regularly listen to This American Life, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, Selected Shorts and discovered the Teachercast.But I am supposed to find something new and tell about it.
I searched and scoured the app store. There are a whole lot of Podcasts out there. There are many categories as well. This made the decision more difficult.
FinallyI chose Couch to 5K. I am really interested in learning to run. I always said if you see me running, you better run too because someone is chasing me. This podcast is supposed to make it so you can run for 30 minutes without stopping because it builds you up gradually. I have always wanted to get enough strength and guts to run a 5K. I have already worked on week 1. I am going to try to make the whole 8 weeks and see if I can't run for 30 minutes without stopping. Wish me luck I am going to need it.
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