Twitter Chat Tutorial

On this upcoming Thursday, I am going to be involved in a twitter chat tutorial after school helping students and teachers learn how to be involved and host a twitter chat. A twitter chat is when a group of people get onto twitter and have a discussion about the topic of the host's choosing. Twitter chats are very easy to use and Twitter is a social app that allows everyone to communicate with each other without being in the same area, state, even country. I like that twitter makes it so easy to communicate with people who you would most likely not talk to in your everyday life. Twitter can also be used for educational purposes. If teachers were to hold twitter chats on a weekly or monthly basis, students can have discussions about the class whether it's for the lesson that they learned in class that day or a study session the night before a test. A group of students that have a twitter account can plan to get online at a certain time on a specific day. For example, a group can decide to get online and have a discussion at 7pm on Wednesday night. A downside to twitter chats is that you have to use a hashtag of your choice for others to see your tweet so if you forget to hashtag, no one will see your tweet unless they personally follow you on twitter. The other issue with hashtags is that if someone uses the same hashtag that is being used for your discussion, then your group will see their tweet. Other than hashtags, I think twitter chats are great to use personally and for school. I feel that having a twitter chat the night before a test to discuss things would be helpful to myself and other students and also if a student wasn't able to log into twitter at the time that was agreed, they can still search the hashtag later that night and read through the discussion on their own time. I believe that twitter chats will be very beneficial to not only my school, but schools all over the country.