The Twittersphere

This year I decided that I would take some graduate classes at Molloy while I was still working there. @dmammolito did our mandated PD this year, and I really enjoyed learning strategies that I was able to turn around and use immediately in my classroom. Because of this, I decided to take her graduate class on 21st century learning. We started class with some of the things I already knew, but in particular our discussion of Twitter led me to take a look at how I was using my professional Twitter.

The first people that I followed were some of my college professors, as well as some of the professionals in the field of history and language learning that I admired. I then began to follow authors and scientists that I admired: people such as Lama Surya Das and Neil Degrasse Tyson. As time has went on, I have followed and been followed by educators I have met at conferences, as well as educators that I have never met.

Neil Degrasse Tyson - Astrophysicist, Funny Man

My professional network is not large, but has thus far been reliable for reaching out and being available to others. Other teachers tag me in things they think would interest me, and I do the same when I find something cool - something worth sharing. By far my favorite part of Twitter has been my ability to reach out to professionals in the field. To me, these people are like rockstars, but Twitter offers a way to contact them and get feedback from them. Although I have not really used Twitter so much in my classroom, I look forward to continue using it develop my own professional learning network.