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TT 8 - My Selfless Plug For Twitter Follows

 I'm sure you're all very confused, jumping from 2 to 8, I promise I know how to count, I know the proper order, but sometimes life gets crazy so here we are, and let's get crazy! I'm sure throughout my blog posts you have seen my selfless plugs to my own Twitter Account (Which you can follow here) and some of the shoutouts from the accounts I have followed since creating the account, which if you click the previous link, you can see that it is still a relatively new profile.  

I am almost certain each and every one of my regulars here is just on the edge of their seat to hear about my experience and thoughts on this relatively new website named Twitter (if you haven't checked it out yet, maybe it is time to do so).  Well, before I give you the good, the bad, the future, and preferences about it, I must confess that I have lied to you and I can't hold it back anymore... The truth is... I have been on Twitter since February of 2012 with my personal account, however, I am going to leave that one as a mystery (spoiler alert: it's NASCAR and Canucks Retweets) for you to find it! The challenge is on now for you folks.

So, now that I've kept you on the edge of your seats this long for my thoughts on the use of Twitter, let's get into it and I will discuss my usage of it professionally, and personally.  I'm going to start with my personal use, how much do I enjoy Twitter? And the answer is, meh.  I don't utilize it very much other than to keep up with sports and some news, and I probably spend too much time on it in a day, but would I survive and be okay without it?  Absolutely.  Can it be a great source for entertainment and funny tweets? Definitely.  Will I delete or disable my personal account in the future? Probably not, it's a handy tool for what I use it for but I am not the most prominent use by no means.  

Professionally, how has my Twitter experience been? Unfortunately, uneventful.  I'm sure that my previous use and non-tweeting carried over a little bit, although I tried to get out of my comfort zone at least once on it, and I have found a funny video or two to share as well, so if you want to see more of these, please follow me on my profile, once again, it can be found here.  Okay, let's focus up here, have I found excellent resources and great other professionals to follow?  Definitely (check out my previous blog post for some of the people I follow).  Is this app super useful as a professional to continue to find resources and to keep students involved in school activities and provides parents an opportunity to see what goes on in the classroom? Yes.  Are there definitely more pros than cons overall with using this app as a professional? 100% and I definitely want to continue to get out of my comfort zone and tweet more, and when I get into my own classroom utilize it as a regular tool for the students to follow and keep in touch in the figure.  Although my current experience has been lackluster to date, once I am in the classroom, as mentioned, things will really fire up, so if you want to follow along, be sure to follow to be brought along.

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