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Failure to Tweet

Failure to Tweet. How I tried to use Twitter as a professional learning network, and disliked every moment of it. Great Expectations. Twitter is a much beloved resource, a revolutionary platform for communication and networking, one of the most popular websites on the internet. I hate it. .

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Failure to Tweet

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  1. Failure to Tweet How I tried to use Twitter as a professional learning network, and disliked every moment of it.

  2. Great Expectations • Twitter is a much beloved resource, a revolutionary platform for communication and networking, one of the most popular websites on the internet. • I hate it.

  3. This guy’s Dad agrees

  4. Anyway. • When I signed in to Twitter, I looked carefully to find and to follow people and groups who seemed as though they would share quality information and ideas.

  5. Grammar Girl • I diligently compile everything Mignon Fogerty, a.k.a Grammar Girl, writes/blogs/podcasts. Grammar Girl is a grammar expert who has a knack for explaining grammatical rules and conventions. I adore her work and subscribe to everything that she does. • But, on Twitter…most of what is offered is self-promotional or personal.

  6. @grammargirl

  7. Fellow Teachers… • Based on these sorts of descriptions… I was interested to follow like-minded professional teachers; ready to receive their insights, ideas, and advice.

  8. Instead… Many professionals use Twitter to have full conversations with other professionals, disregarding the fact that they are publicly posting one side of a conversation for the annoyance of all.

  9. Organisations • Many, if not most, educational organizations use Twitter. I signed up to follow Smekens Education, TES English, Edutopia, Discovery Education, and 2learn.ca, as well as others. • I found that these organizations offered up the most substantial tweets, some of which I found very useful. • However, many of these groups tweet hourly during the work week, meaning that they overwhelmed my Twitter feed with links to long articles, blogs, videos and resources.

  10. @tes English

  11. My PLN in the end…pretty pathetic

  12. In sum • It didn’t work for me to use Twitter as a tool for professional growth. I found it to be an annoying time-waster. I found some useful resources digging through the Tweets, but many of them I had seen already on Pinterest or had been sent to me already from another teacher (or pre-service teacher). Even though Twitter won’t be my PLN tool of choice, I’m glad I had the opportunity to try it, if only because…

  13. Twitter has its uses

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