Thing 18:

This "thing" was easy because I already have Twitter and Facebook accounts! I joined Twitter before I graduated high school so that I could be updated with what my friends were doing without having to text all of them separately. I have since added a Twitpic account so that I can tweet photos too. I created a Facebook after I graduated high school so that I could keep up with all of the people that graduated with (the ones I cared about anyway, haha!). Both social networking sites are a great way to connect with people, sometimes people you have never even met before. I am a firm believer in that you can learn something from everyone you meet (not saying that you have to meet these internet people in person, but figuratively!). I am not sure about using Twitter in the classroom, maybe on a school or district level to make important announcements. I think Facebook might work at the classroom level. The teacher could make a group or specific page for the class. I would assume that these would only benefit the parents. Of course, parents are allowing their children to have these accounts at younger and younger ages now. The good thing is that teachers or school staff can make these profiles private or public, so that parents or whoever do not have to have an account to view them. With Twitter, you can have updates sent to your cell phone or if you have a smart phone, then there are apps for that and Facebook. So, if there is an emergency, parents can be alerted immediately.


I'm pretty sure both of my profiles are set to private, but here are the links:
https://www.facebook.com/jessica.shaw.391
https://twitter.com/openxarms