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Today’s good thing was seeing that when you search Google for presidential swing set, my blog comes up first. I never thought I would see the day that my blog would be #1 on Google for any search, but there ya go.
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I have recently become very interested in the phenomenon that is Twitter. I don’t know exactly how yet, but I believe that Twitter will, and is, changing the world. I started using Twitter in my classroom and in the letter I sent to my parents I expound on Twitter’s virtues, so I don’t want to rehash all of them here, but here is a link to that post which lists several of Twitter’s uses.
What I find most compelling about Twitter is its real time nature. As news or events happen you can find out instantly. This might be as mundane as your friend going to the grocery store or as big as a plane crashing into the Hudson river.
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While implementing Twitter in my classroom I have been doing a lot of research about the topic. I ran across a good article today about teens and Twitter. The basic premise is that teens aren’t using Twitter yet because they are using Facebook to accomplish most of the other purposes of Twitter. When I even mentioned Twitter in class the kids didn’t get the point of it and they thought it was “creepy” to follow someone (as this post also illustrates) but it no different than reading your friends’ status updates. The article states that one of the biggest uses of Twitter is marketing (or self promotion) and most teens don’t need to do that yet.
I will go one step further and say a lot of the adult users of Twitter are people who don’t have Facebook pages and if they did they would probably use Twitter a lot less. Also, I think teens don’t use Twitter as much because cell phones are treated like a cancer in high schools. If we tried to embrace this technology rather than shun it, we might fine that we can make good things happen.
That begs the question, why do I use Twitter.
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I have started using Selective Twitter Status for Facebook. This allows me to control which tweets I send that end up as my Facebook status y adding a #fb to the end of the tweet. I think this will really help me use Twitter more effectively. One of the nice parts of Twitter is the sharing links and other pieces of information that I wouldn’t necesarily want to make a status update on Facebook. This application is very helpful and is a good thing.
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This is a questionnaire I distributed after the first weekend of the Twitter project. I wanted to see how many students were following me and assess how they were using the service and if it was helping.
Twitter Project — Questionnaire 2 (After the 1st Weekend)
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This is an e-mail I sent to the parents regarding the Twitter project. My two main goals were to educate them about what Twitter is and to make sure they did not think I was trying to put their students in harm’s way. The letter got a little long, but I think it has some good information.
Twitter Project — Letter (E-Mail) to Parents
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We have begun the great Twitter experiment, to test whether or not Twitter is a helpful tool in a high school physics class room.
Purpose: To determine if Twitter can be a useful tool in a high school physics classroom.
Hypothesis: Twitter will not be a useful tool in a high school physics classroom. (Note: For those of you who have not enetered the world of academic reasearch yet, this hypothesis may seeem odd. If this is your educated guess, why would you even bother? This is what is referred to as a null hypothesis. You assume that the change in the variables will have no effect and then you measure you data from that.)
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