Microblogging for Educational Growth

Blogging is a great way to learn through the experiences and knowledge of others, however; microblogging can serve to be just as useful inside and outside of the classroom for both the educators and the students. Microblogging may have a smaller content base than a traditional blog does, but, it is still a great source of information that can be used to help all of us grow and develop as both educators and learners.

There are several different ways in which an educator can implement microblogging into the classroom. There are numerous ways in which a microblogging site, such as Twitter, can be used to fulfill the educational and technological needs of our students today. One article, entitled "28 Creative Ways Teachers Are Using Twitter" has discussed several different ways in which you could use Twitter in the classroom.

I know that I will be implementing microblogging into my own classroom in the future because it is a way of not only embracing the social media that envelopes our social world today, but, it is also a great way to go about educating our students and ourselves. I will use microblogging for my own personal development as an educator and as a learner, and I will also use it to implement ideas in the classroom so that my students might be able to have different and enriched learning experiences. In using these types of sites in the classroom it is important for the students to get a sense that the reading and responding that they will be doing is not simply a "lecture" but is a way of communicating; it is a "conversation." This idea is emphasized by Ernesto Priego in his article called "How Twitter will revolutionise academic research and teaching."