I am inspired by our new Director of Education Chris Spence, to integrate Twitter into the classroom.  I’ve been using blogs and podcasts now for a couple of years and have had amazing success, both with the quality of student work and the level with which the students are engaged.  I’m an avid Tweeter in my outside-school-life but hadn’t given much thought to adding the microblogging technology into the classroom.  That was until I noticed that our Director of Education had created his own Twitter account and encouraged anyone who wanted to to follow along.  Well, that got me thinking: Perhaps Twitter is a classroom worthy application after all.  If nothing else, it will give my students a little insight into who I am as a teacher and person.  After all, the more students begin to understand you as a person, the more they will trust you and respect you.  The more trust and respect there is between you and your students, the more authentic learning experiences everyone (including the teacher) will have.

I have now added my Titter updates to all the classroom pages that I use with my students!  Consider the experiment in everyday integration of social media within the classroom begun.

Twitter.com

Mr. Borges on Twitter

Chris Spence on Twitter