Twitter Chat Reflection

A few weeks ago my professor began discussing PLNs with us. She showed us many ways to expand it, and Twitter chats was one of those ways. At first I was very intimidated by the thought of joining a Twitter chat with people who are already educators, but after jumping in I have come to actually love it. It seemed very overwhelming at first and I was really unsure of what to expect, but everyone in that chat was so helpful and nice that it made me feel as if I knew these people for years before.

I stayed with the twitter chat that I first tried because I really enjoyed it! The chat I joined was #txed . I joined this chat because it is full of educators from Texas. Texas is where I plan on teaching once I graduate from college, so I figured having a PLN built from down there is a great plus! The first week I joined the chat was very nerve-racking for me because I am a preservice teacher, I was worried my answers wouldn’t be good enough or that people would think I don’t know what i’m talking about. Turns out, people loved what I had to share! I also got tweets from the moderator of the chat which made me feel super confident.

I have been able to connect with so many awesome educators, and I have learned so much from everyone in these chats. I got to grow and expand my PLN while discussing the things I love, education, with people who share the same interest. I highly recommend that every educator should join a twitter chat at least once in their life time.

If you guys have joined any twitter chats that you think I should join let me know!! Hope you enjoyed this post and I hope to hear from you guys!

Twitter Challenge

This week , I participated in the RoCo #pstpln Challenge on Twitter. This tag introduced me to so many new tips and tricks and people! On Monday, we introduced ourselves to our new twitter with an introduction post, then we were to tweet out something about teaching that we learned or observed. Tuesday we had to tweet our PLN a question that we wanted an answer to. Wednesday we had to join a twitter educational chat. Thursday, we all shared an article that we thought had good educational purpose with our PLN. Then on Friday, we needed to tag five educators or educational pages so our followers can follow them !

Here I was given a shoutout from Dr. Sam Fecich on Follow Friday !

This is a great article I found that I shared with my followers on Thursday.

This Was my introduction tweet to my Twitter Education chat I joined. #txed

A question that was asked on the #txed Twitter chat.

Overall, I loved participating in this challenge! The most fun part of the challenge was the twitter chat we had to join. This really was my favorite part of the challenge. I got to see so many awesome responses to different educational questions. We were asked questions that really made me think. I had to reach deep in my brain to everything I have been taught about education. I not only shared my great ideas but I got to see so many new ideas that other people actually use in their classroom. I had so many “ah ha” moments when people were answering questions with new tips and tricks I’ve never heard of. Honestly I was skeptical about doing the twitter chat because I didn’t think it would be fun, when in actuality I met some amazing people and had so much fun answering and responding in the chat.