Exploring Facebook and Twitter was very easy to me because I already had an account for both of them. I use facebook religiously lol however I am not really a fan of twitter. I made one earlier in the semester for the class and all of my friends have twiiters but I just do not like it like I do facebook. Here are the links to both of my accounts:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100001331769412
https://twitter.com/#!/cmray15
I think that it is very important that educators know how to use social networking sites such as facebook and twitter. I could see schools using faceboook like the College of Education does to stay connected and keep everyone within their group informed of news and information that is important. I just added the College of Education to my facebook, and wish I would have had it all along because I did not even know we had it and all the useful information and upcoming news they put on the website. Like I said, I think facebook is more appropriate for a school setting because you can make your profile private, or could just make a whole separate account just for school. With facebook you can also make groups, so you can have a site where you have group discussions about a topic or news just with your classroom kinda like a blog. I do not like twitter as much for a school setting. I think twitter is more of a fun social networking site where you follow celebrities and keep up with it 24 hours of the day. I do think twitter can be good maybe in a university setting, but I think middle and high school students would not use if for all of its resources as would universities students. Twitter can be used on an educational level, such as finding links to other educational blogs and tweets from other professionals, however I think facebook is more user friendly and more students would enjoy communicating with their classmates through it better.
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