Blog 5 - Twitter

I initially made an account on twitter to enter giveaways for gaming gear. To this day, I still have only tweeted a handful of times. To me, twitter is just another social media site just like Facebook. My wall is full of posts or tweets from various sources based on those I follow. A lot of pages I follow tend to tweet over and over, filling up my wall with information I don’t care as much about. Partially, that’s my fault because I could just unfollow them, but then I will miss out on the bits of information that I followed them for in the first place. I decided to start looking into twitter a bit more closely to see what sort of customization options there are. There are widgets that you can add to customize the look of your page, but what I wanted to find was the ability to create groups like Facebook has. There are times that I want to see what my friends or family are up to and not see what is going on in the world of video games, while other times I want to see what is happening with the news and not see the tweets of my friends and family. I still have further to research, but I hopefully I will find this option.

I would create a second account specifically for my classroom. I see true potential with twitter in education, but I would have to keep it separate from my personal account.

How can I use twitter in physical education?

• I see a lot of great uses for twitter, such as creating polls using hashtags for answers, or getting feedback on a sports event. I definitely plan on trying it out in my classroom.

What benefit is there to using twitter in physical education?

• Twitter is a great way to network. Students can network with others to learn more about each other and find common interests that they wouldn’t otherwise learn.