Twitter Setup

When I was in high school Twitter was one of the popular social media sites to use.  I jumped on the twitter train a long time after other people started to get into it.  Once I created twitter and got the hang of it I joined the obsession.   I would check twitter constantly and not only follow people from my high school, but also celebrities and companies that I am interested in.  My parents also decided to create twitter accounts because they knew that I had one and wanted to keep an eye on what I posted, not that I would have posted anything inappropriate anyway.

During my Freshman year at Ohio University I took a class that had me tweet to participate, answer questions, and do assignments.  I have never used social media like that in a classroom before and I thought that that was a very interesting way to incorporate it.  To keep track of the tweets that we made during class he would have us use a certain hashtag to easily see who has and hasn't tweeted for the week. That was the only class that I have taken that incorporated social media into a classroom until I took EDCT 2030. 

I have always been told to be careful on what you post on social media because future employers could see what you post and it could possibly cost you the job.  Based off of people telling me this I have been very careful in monitoring what I post or what I am tagged in. I think that it is good to keep your social media free of anything that could be considered bad, like drinking, drugs, and other things.  It not only looks bad to future employers, but it also looks bad to other people and you could get a bad reputation. I have also set up two different twitter accounts just for EDCT 2030.  One is for my personal use like tweeting my feelings or things that make me laugh.  The other twitter account I will use for my classes and also follow twitter accounts related to education and teaching.