This time last year, as a result of discussions, I made it a mission
to integrate use of some social media like twitter and blogging into my
curriculum and to complete an action research on the subject during the year. One
of the strategies I used was informing and modelling to parents the use of
paper blogging; sending out reading and writing activities in real time through
my BlogSpot posts, in an effort to engage the students further. This proved a
successful strategy with children using social media for educational purposes and
their parents having
access to set homework via twitter making sure these were completed.
My recent involvement in the online classroom 2.0 conference
(20 -24th August), illuminated the passion colleagues worldwide have
in using social media to enhance teaching and learning in their institutions; I personally, gained many more skills and knowledge
in the area which I intend to embed in my practice.
I am now planning to introduce many
more social media tools into my teaching. I am ecstatic about the idea of operating a fully
integrated social media tools classroom henceforth and look forward to all the fun I will be having with my students.
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