I have been using Twitter for a very long time. I feel like I jumped on Twitter in the very early stages of the app. I have seen all the changes that the app has gone through and I believe that it has become a great tool for just about anyone to use. I mostly use my personal Twitter for sports, news and following some of my friends and what they are up to. I do not tweet much from my personal account. At times, I will retweet and likes things, but rarely do I tweet my own ideas from my personal account.

I am only just starting to use Twitter professionally. I like finding new resources, reading about different apps and find new ways to engage my students through all the different spaces on Twitter. I have used Twitter Spaces a couple times which allows you to have full on conversations with people about certain topics which is a fairly new feature of Twitter. It is a neat feature that allows you to actually have verbal conversations with anyone in the “Space” and discuss the main topic. I have found it more useful than a blog because of the verbal conversation aspect and being able to immediately provide feedback or ask questions.

In my opinion, Twitter could be a very effective tool used in the classroom under certain circumstances. I think that it is a great way for students to share their ideas with a community and to learn new things as well. It is a great way to connect locally, provincially, nationally and even internationally. This allows students to broaden their horizons and really engage with different parts of the world, outside of their communities.

I do have some concerns with Twitter being used in a regular classroom setting. Twitter is not moderated from inappropriate material in the same way that other social media platforms are. I would have a tough time allowing middle school students onto Twitter given the fact that it is possible that they stumble upon violent and gory images, and even in some cases it is possible that they may find some pornographic images. I do think that there are other programs that could be supplemented that feature a similar mini-blog format such as Seesaw Blogs or Google classroom.