As we have found during our Introduction into the Writing Arts class this semester, Twittering has become a huge source of following. People from all walks of life can be seen and heard while posting their tweets. Any individual can follow anyone else to see their up to the minute activities.
Famous “in the eye” individuals like Ashton Kutcher can be seen as the #1 person to follow on Twitterholic with his stunning 3,800,511 followers, others like John Dickerson who is a political correspondent holds the # 100 slot, and Darren Scott Monroe an online business professor hold slot # 927. In addition to actual people, groups of them can be seen too. For example Twilight fans are on the Twitterholic list at # 497, while New Moon (its sequel) holds the close # 500 spot.
While most of these famous people and topics are the hot topics of todays conversations, other topics of talk can be too, and from the everyday Dick and Jane. As a student my followers are at a whopping 20, but others like my friend Beckie (whom of which I talked about in a previous blog) only has four. I do however see a definite advantage to the classroom use as is in the case of Darren Scott Monroe and with this current class. I think as a future educator that specified twitter pages could be extremely useful. It could help to enhance class performances with students helping each other with homework questions as well as helping to direct the teacher in a round about way as to what he or she may have missed while teaching the lesson. It could also be a great means of communication with the students’ parents and or guardians. Once in the classroom I will make it my personal goal to look deeper into the positive uses of this communication application and all it has to offer.
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