Thing 18

https://twitter.com/punkinstar1984

Honestly, at first I was skeptical on setting up a Twitter account because I thought it was just going to be a bunch of social media drama, but in fact it is not. There is only drama where you allow for drama so if you use Twitter to your advantage and for the right reasons, then you will gain from utilizing this tool.  Upon my search for hashtags, I was able to find some really cool and useful websites.  One such site was TeachHub, which is basically a teacher collaboration community. There are lesson plan ideas, news related to education grades K-12, and different resources that you can use in the classroom. By seeing the daily post on the Twitter feed, you are able to see what is new on the actual web page. It is important that educators keep up and are familiar with social networking because it definitely keeps them up to date on current events and resources, but it also saves time and helps with lesson planning.  Teaching the same lessons can get boring.  You need diversity to keep up with times but, also you need to be able to know more than one way to teach a lesson for those children who don't understand.