Still Learning

There’s a lot of things that I said I would never do,

or that would never be “me”

such as living in the suburbs

(I’m more of a diversity kind of girl),

Or... having a cat that

I refer to as one of my kids,

for obvious reasons,

(I made it to almost 50 years old),

and steering the wheel of a twin-engine plane (I’m DEATHLY afraid of heights),

but as John Lennon said…

“Life is what happens when you are making other plans.”

So, now we have yet one more item to add to the list of “Who? Me? Never!”.

 
I think my initial resistance to being a “Tweeter” was that I was happy with Facebook, and I figured, like everything else, once word caught on, there would be a plethora of social media platforms, and I didn’t have the time to participate in them all. Well, as a result of one of my graduate school classes, “Blogging in the Classroom”, I was required to create a Twitter account.

It’s been just about 6 weeks now that I have been tweeting… well, learning to tweet would be more precise. There is definitely a learning curve with learning a new language! Grammar and punctuation appear to not matter. Nor does knowing whether or not people “like” what you say or post, but my classmates and professor have been kind in guiding me through it all.

I really chose to blog about my Twitter experience because I can honestly say that I did not know what I was missing! I have had the best time gathering (“Favoriting” if you will) teaching resources that have me inspired to start this next school year! I have been following some experts in the field of iPad use, and Google Apps for Education. One in particular, Alice Keeler, does not sleep! Either that, or she has a crew of folks who tweet while she is sleeping because she is on there ‘round the clock! I am a huge fan of GAFE, and am always on the lookout for like-minded people who are willing to freely share their successes. Twitter gives me an instant way to easily locate ideas for my class, and even share them with others who might be actually following ME.

Once again, I am forced to humbly admit that I don’t always know what’s good for me.

Image Credits: (Unless otherwise noted-Cambria Tooley)