I have never been a big fan of social networking. Even in high school, I never had a MySpace like everyone else and I only have a Facebook because someone else set it up for me during my freshman year of college. So I never was even on Twitter until I was forced to set one up for the Writing Project. I have been making myself tweet at least a few times a week, if not everyday, throughout the day at the summer institute. One of my goals during the Writing Project is to incorporate more technology in my classroom. While I hate to admit it, I am actually liking this twitter thing a little bit. With the push of a fellow coworker/friend, I am setting a goal for myself next school year. I plan to start a Twitter account with my Kindergarteners.
My school has a very low percentage of parent involvement. To be honest, unless free food is involved, we rarely have a good turn out at after school events, conference night, etc. I have come to the conclusion that even though they may not comment back, "retweet" or whatever the twitter lingo is, at least there is a possibility that parents will see what we are doing. This may encourage conversations at home with their child about their school day. I think that through using Twitter in the classroom it will create more of a relationship between home and school, parent and teacher, and parent and student.
My school has a very low percentage of parent involvement. To be honest, unless free food is involved, we rarely have a good turn out at after school events, conference night, etc. I have come to the conclusion that even though they may not comment back, "retweet" or whatever the twitter lingo is, at least there is a possibility that parents will see what we are doing. This may encourage conversations at home with their child about their school day. I think that through using Twitter in the classroom it will create more of a relationship between home and school, parent and teacher, and parent and student.
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