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We currently use Facebook to connect with previous student and future students showing what we do in class. I think it would be very interesting to incorporate a twitter account. I will check with our school to see if that is an option.
At our school we don’t allow the use of social media in the classroom so twitter would be problematic. But the idea of a youtube channel for lectures, Skype lectures or live streaming events is definitely something I want to explore.
I would also have to agree with the use of most of the technologies in this section at the school I teach in. We have a preset curriculum that doesn't allow for a lot of variance as well as we are more hands on so we currently do not use it. Maybe in the future
I believe if it was more accepted in our organization, we could use it to our advantage. But I agree that with our current thinking, Twitter will cause problems.
Hello everyone,
I never took Twitter that way; I thought it was made for short and quick text for follower. Now I have better understanding about the capability I will be more than happy to create class Twitter group per subject matter for each class. Which will help me to stay connecting and informing my student during the program and beyond upon availability of the technology.
It would be difficult to manage for our school, and our industry doesn’t want their employees to be tied to their cell phone. Teaching appropriate use of social media is something we try. Of course things always look good in a text book but when we try to apply them practically, it all falls apart and you get an unintended result.
I would not use twitter for my students. A tweet can only be 140 characters long. This does not allow for well-developed thoughts to be shared. It would also be very hard to monitor the interactions between students if the individuals have their Twitter set to "private." It does not allow for an instructor to see the students tweets. I would hate for any sort of immaturity or harassment take place between students that are taking a course together. However, I would be curious to know if instructors have luck and/or productivity with the use of Twitter.
This sounds like a great idea to me. Our school just within the last year has gotten on to Facebook. Having a YouTube channel would be beneficial, like you wrote.
I just thought of one thing though - I hear many students say, "I already know how to do this because I just looked it up on You Tube!". With that, I tell them much of the info you see on that site is incorrect, so they have to be careful. However, the other downside I see is that if our school had such a channel, why would potential students show up and enroll if they could get everything for free on YT? Can a YT channel be made private, so only students could log in to the videos?
Why not incorporate it into class time? The students should certainly be encouraged to utilize it outside of class, but we need to be realistic if we are going to make this part of our classes.
First, chances are, many students will be on some form of social media at some during your class. Make it constructive - give 10-15 at some point during class for students to use your class social media.
Second, we still need to consider that not all students will have access to computers, smartphones, or even the internet outside of class. Incorporating time into class for these activities (assuming you have the technology in your classroom) gives these students an equal chance to participate.
We are not allowed to use much in the way of current technology for classroom use. This is unfortunate for the learners that are experienced technological users. Incorporating more technology for the educator would help us not to become complacent.
I have to agree with all the instructors for our institute. We would have a very difficult time monitoring language and profanity, not to mention in our industry. Business owners do not what technicians or their phones for liability and productivity reasons. I do believe that is changing because of newer technology and use of computers for diagnostic tool.
Keegan, I think your ideas for incorporating Twitter are spot on. I think that Twitter could be used as a supplement to the classroom, not something that is utlizied during class. If you have younger students that are already using this form of social media, it would be easy to get into their feed and begin discussions about class subjects. While some people beleive that their students are too young or immature to handle this sort of interaction, I think this is more the time to educate them on how to behave in this outlet. After all, hospitality businesses are using this as a form of communication and it would be relevant to my student's future career.
We disallow social media and for good reason in our current classroom/lab setting. I also can see how it would be extremely hard to manage within our large, immature classrooms.
I would use Twitter to engage students. I teach in textiles, so it would be interesting to Tweet apparel needs and appropriate textiles for those needs and encourage students to respond with comments as to why they are appropriate.
We currently do not use social media at out institution via our no cell phone policy but we have recently started to allow comments for surveys on cell phones and tablets. I have found in the younger generation that many have a difficult time abiding to a no cell phone policy. It can be quite daunting to manage.
At our school we are exploring the use of a You-Tube Channel so that instructors can create video lectures for students who miss class.
I am not sure how I would use a class Twitter group. I could be the disseminator of information to the class, but I am not sure if this will become overwhelming.
Unfortuneately, having never used Twitter myself, dur to the fact that I thought it strictly was for keeping in contact with the Hollywood celebrity scene, I totally avoided any use of this social media site. I would agree with the other teachers, that in my classes of 30+ students it would be diddicult to monitor and respond to multiple feedbacks, reflections, and contributing thoughts on technical issues and questions.