Last week we held a professional development after school. This professional development was focused on using different technology tools. Rabbi Hochbaum gave a presentation on creating a wiki/class website, Morah Shira on "Go Animate", Rabbi Koslowe on Pod/vod casting, and I gave one on blogging/ microblogging. In my session, the teachers set up their own blogs and signed up for twitter accounts. We discussed how we could use both these tools in our classrooms. Twitter specifically was an interesting discussion. We all saw its potential in helping our own personal development or finding resources. We also were able to see how it could be valuable in collecting data or following or connecting with specific people like authors of books or candidates. We saw the benefit of using an edmodo type site for creating a classroom of tweeters and using it that way. We were talking about how we could create different personas for ourselves depending on what purpose and audience we were tweeting to. I can't wait to see how different teachers use it over the next few months!
On a personal note, I have been thinking about how to use the platform of tweeting. Similar to blogging, it is hard to decide what message to send to the larger community/ audience. Should I use this platform to talk about what we are doing in technology at our school? About how I am inspired by teachers or students each day? I imagine children find it so easy to let go and express themselves on this global platform. It is much harder for me!
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