Thing #18

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Facebook & Twitter
I think that it is important to know how social networking works when you are a teacher because it is so prevalent in both teachers and students lives. It's really hard to ignore something that it such a big part of people's daily lives, so why not use it to the teachers advantage? I learned about how they worked and operated, and what the functions of each were. I disliked the way that Twitter "flows". It just doesn't make any logical sense to me and it's almost pointless unless you're famous, but that's just my opinion. I think that for an educational purpose, Facebook would make more sense than Twitter. On Facebook you have so many more options for groups, editing, privacy, and etc whereas on Twitter it is really just following people. Twitter, however, may be better used if the teacher only uses it to notify students of important information (although you can still do this on Facebook). I believe that you could potentially either of these two sites, but you have to be careful in doing it. The students have to be of appropriate age, administrators should give it a "thumbs up", and parents should be more than aware of it's use. I don't know that I would use either, but who knows what will happen when I actually become a teacher.