https://twitter.com/#!/Jim5540 My twitter link, though not real exciting at the moment, I think I will use it more to see what other people are tweeting about on certain topics and see where that leads me. I am already a facebook user, though I use the term user rather lightly as I don't enter what I am doing daily, weekly, or even monthly. It is a good communication tool for keeping up on my classmates from school, and sometimes on my own children, but I still just can't update on the things I do every day.
I think it is important for teachers, even if they chose not to actively participate on a regular basis to know about these social networks and how they work because they are important to our students on a daily basis. Most have a hard time getting through the school day without sneaking onto their mobile to tweet, text or update some social network. I know of one teacher that has set up a facebook account for his classes only, and posts lessons that they are to watch at night and be prepared to discuss them during class. He has expanded his class period beyond the 50 minutes the students are actually in class.
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