Activities #18 and #19 Twitter and Resources

Twitter was simple to access and register with. What became difficult, was finding other physical educators to follow. I had to go through the back door to get to them, (locating my professional organizations' Tweets, and then seeing who followed them); but, I finally found a few. I also found a lot of people following my professional groups were spammers and just trying to sell me something. It's a shame we can't filter them out. Wading through the spam was a resented waste of my time.

I spent a significant amount of time scrolling through a lot of Tweets, because they were written in a foreign language. Again, I wish there was a filter, so that I could just get a hit on English speakers.

I signed up for several web pages and pertinent sites I discovered on people's Tweets or profiles in Twitter. Those may prove more valuable than the Tweets themselves; at least in my case.

I also signed up for email notification, if Tweets I am following, become updated. There were several notifications in my mailbox just hours after my initial registrations. That was cool. But someone named "Steven" flooded my inbox with about 20 Tweets. :-)

I think I see Twitter more as a professional development tool, than I do a student to teacher means of communicating. I teach elementary school and I'd just be totally surprised if the bulk of my kids have access to a computer, much less a Twitter account.

Being aware of what's out there is important. I'll keep checking back and investigating the updates I receive. Hopefully the list of elementary physical educators will grow.