What is Twitter?
Twitter is an online social media platform that houses various forms of information. Yes, this app can be used for personal use, but after digging into it and exploring all that Twitter has to offer you can find recommendations for anything and everything. Not only are you finding recommendations, but you are also keeping up to date with the changes happening all over. Twitter has users in all different realms of life. You can find information from politicians to the weather to sports all in one place. Twitter allows for one person to start a conversation or what they call a "tweet" and then others can comment on the original post. This comment then begins a chain of tweets related to the same topic. You can also input websites, links, articles, videos, and pictures into these comments and tweets. Users can also search for topics, people, keywords, and hashtags. This app allows for connections all over the world to get connected over similar topics, ideas, and opinions.
What is TweetDeck?
TweetDeck is directly linked to Twitter. In fact, you use your Twitter account to log in to TweetDeck. Here you are able to see your Twitter from a different point of view, a more organized and focused view. On TweetDeck, you are able to tweet, reply to other tweets, and organize. You are able to organize the view of your TweetDeck into various columns. These columns may include messages, notifications, tweets, and you can also add columns that are related to a certain topic and you can name this topic. From here you are able to have another column that has certain accounts and topics in one column. This view of Twitter allows an individual to focus on what is most important to that person and not the rest of the tweets that are seen on twitter. This feature will also allow people to separate their personal content from the content related to other topics such as educational resources, sports, or entertainment. TweetDeck allows your Twitter timeline to be put into separate timelines that run at the same time, but in a way that the person would not miss anything of importance to them.
How Do They Work Together?
Twitter is an online social media platform that houses various forms of information. Yes, this app can be used for personal use, but after digging into it and exploring all that Twitter has to offer you can find recommendations for anything and everything. Not only are you finding recommendations, but you are also keeping up to date with the changes happening all over. Twitter has users in all different realms of life. You can find information from politicians to the weather to sports all in one place. Twitter allows for one person to start a conversation or what they call a "tweet" and then others can comment on the original post. This comment then begins a chain of tweets related to the same topic. You can also input websites, links, articles, videos, and pictures into these comments and tweets. Users can also search for topics, people, keywords, and hashtags. This app allows for connections all over the world to get connected over similar topics, ideas, and opinions.
TweetDeck is directly linked to Twitter. In fact, you use your Twitter account to log in to TweetDeck. Here you are able to see your Twitter from a different point of view, a more organized and focused view. On TweetDeck, you are able to tweet, reply to other tweets, and organize. You are able to organize the view of your TweetDeck into various columns. These columns may include messages, notifications, tweets, and you can also add columns that are related to a certain topic and you can name this topic. From here you are able to have another column that has certain accounts and topics in one column. This view of Twitter allows an individual to focus on what is most important to that person and not the rest of the tweets that are seen on twitter. This feature will also allow people to separate their personal content from the content related to other topics such as educational resources, sports, or entertainment. TweetDeck allows your Twitter timeline to be put into separate timelines that run at the same time, but in a way that the person would not miss anything of importance to them.
These two apps work hand in hand with each other. They allow for important information to be put in the right places for the person using Twitter to see. There are sections for personal use and for the importance of information. TweetDeck does not have to be used for only serious information. You can still see the sports events taking place and you can also still use it to message through Twitter. TweetDeck just makes the overall exploration of Twitter easier to sort by topics. Twitter has it all there in one place happening at the same time and exploring all parts of information chronologically. Twitter is like a binder it has all of your information inside it- important or personal- and TweetDeck is like the folders or dividers inside the binder that have the topic written on them and divide the subjects into sections.
How Can I Use This in the Classroom?
As a future educator, I will be able to use both Twitter and Tweetdeck in my classroom. I will be able to keep track of the Tweets most important to topics that I am focusing on. I can also have my older students be able to connect with their interests, ideas, and opinions with others from around the world. My students will be able to have one platform to start their exploration of these topics. I can also have my students create fake Twitter profiles as a project. They can either use this platform or they can even use the template and recreate a Twitter for a particular person of study. Twitter, in particular, can also be used for teachers and administrators to be in contact with each other both in the same school as well as internationally. This may also be used for the teachers to be in contact with families as well. On top of talking through Twitter, it may also be used to share your classroom and the work your students are doing. On top of this, the educator is able to gather the new trends and techniques that other educators are using in their classrooms. Twitter may also be used by the students in a way for them to no have typical homework and instead of writing a response to something they read or research about they can use Twitter to spread their findings. Twitter may also help students learn the important skill of summarizing since a single tweet can only be 140 characters. This skill will be needed as they continue through their schooling and using Twitter can be a fun way to practice that.
My Personal Experience
I have been using Twitter for a couple years now mainly for personal use and keeping up with friends as well as celebrities and sports. I actually used Twitter for a project in high school where we needed to be a particular person in history and respond as they would to events happening during that time. My view of Twitter has changed over the years and I am now currently more involved in using it for the TweetDeck feature where I can see what I am most interested in and also use it to help me improve my techniques used as I am student teaching and observing in classrooms. I also plan on using the resources and references found on Twitter and TweetDeck to help me pull ideas for when I am writing lesson plans.
References
Lynch, Matthew. (2017, October 23). 10 Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom. The Edvocate. Retrieved from https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/09/30/teachers-turn-to-twitter-for-solutions-connection.html
Brenneman, R. (2015, September 25). Teachers Turn to Twitter for Solutions, Connection. Retrieved from https://www.theedadvocate.org/10-ways-use-twitter-classroom/
Techboomers. (2017, July 25). How to Use Twitter. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=5jWNpLvdocU
As a future educator, I will be able to use both Twitter and Tweetdeck in my classroom. I will be able to keep track of the Tweets most important to topics that I am focusing on. I can also have my older students be able to connect with their interests, ideas, and opinions with others from around the world. My students will be able to have one platform to start their exploration of these topics. I can also have my students create fake Twitter profiles as a project. They can either use this platform or they can even use the template and recreate a Twitter for a particular person of study. Twitter, in particular, can also be used for teachers and administrators to be in contact with each other both in the same school as well as internationally. This may also be used for the teachers to be in contact with families as well. On top of talking through Twitter, it may also be used to share your classroom and the work your students are doing. On top of this, the educator is able to gather the new trends and techniques that other educators are using in their classrooms. Twitter may also be used by the students in a way for them to no have typical homework and instead of writing a response to something they read or research about they can use Twitter to spread their findings. Twitter may also help students learn the important skill of summarizing since a single tweet can only be 140 characters. This skill will be needed as they continue through their schooling and using Twitter can be a fun way to practice that.
My Personal Experience
References
Lynch, Matthew. (2017, October 23). 10 Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom. The Edvocate. Retrieved from https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/09/30/teachers-turn-to-twitter-for-solutions-connection.html
Brenneman, R. (2015, September 25). Teachers Turn to Twitter for Solutions, Connection. Retrieved from https://www.theedadvocate.org/10-ways-use-twitter-classroom/
Techboomers. (2017, July 25). How to Use Twitter. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=5jWNpLvdocU
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