Thoughts on Twitter, so far

Since we have been using Twitter a little more within the last few weeks, I think I am getting the hang of some things. My friends who use Twitter frequently have definitely helped me learn some things about Twitter that I probably wouldn't have known before. I think Twitter can be helpful if you follow the right people. Some very informational things are tweeted and can be very helpful with keeping up with current events! However, I am still not quite sure of how I would be able to use this in the classroom. I could maybe see how we could have a class Twitter where we could follow certain people or news groups and look at their tweets everyday, but I don't think that I would benefit from having a class hashtag (like we do for CEP416) and having my students tweet with that hashtag. This could possibly be useful for teaching in high school, but for elementary school, I'm not so sure yet. Hopefully within the next few weeks I will come up with some more creative ways of how to use Twitter in the classroom!