How many benefits can you imagine educators can gain from micro-blogging?

       Social media offers some great opportunities for learning in the classroom, bringing together the ability to collaborate, access worldwide resources, and find new and interesting ways to communicate in one easily accessible place. Teachers and educators around the world have found innovative ways to use Twitter as a teaching tool, and I would like to share many of these great ideas here with you.

      The first thing came up to my mind is we can involve every student into the discussion. Since Buffalo's winter can be really tough sometimes, I really think acquiring knowledge at home is  inevitable for most of us. One example from 60 Inspiring Examples of Twitter in the Classroom also mentioned this aspects: Keep students in the loop- Using hashtags on Twitter, students who were not able to make it to class can follow along and stay on top of the conversation. I also will benefit from the functions of Parent communication in my future career in which parents can sign up for twitters and communicate with teachers anywhere conveniently since not every parent will have certain time to drop by school to attend a meeting. 

       Another interesting application of Twitter I found in the article 35 interesting ways to use Twitter in the classroom is that we can even use it to play academic games,such as the word game showed in this article. what is the most amazing part is we can download the App into our portable device and acquire the game everywhere, such as on the bus, subway and during one class break. 

       All in all , technology will inevitably grow into our daily learning. I believe it will show more valuable features as we explore more about it.