Infusing Twitter into My Future Classroom

After reading two articles, Can we use twitter for educational activities  and Forget E-Mail: New Messaging Service Has Students and Professors Atwitter, I have concluded some ideas about microblogs. To illustrate, one of the Microblogs, Twitter, is considered as a popular, user-friendly, and interactive application to people all over the world. I myself as a novice twitterer have been thinking about how I can utilize twitter to facilitate my future teaching recently.Finally, I have figured out some ways I can use tweeter as one of my teaching methods as the followings.

Firstly, I personally think that the hashtag is a good one that I can use to bring up a small talk for my students. For example, I would enter a hashtag for weekly question associated with our current lessons so as to encourage my students to brainstorm together and to motivate their English learning.

Secondly, I would recommend my students opening an account of twitter for the purpose of learning English only. If some of the students have already had a twitter account, I would ask them to follow my twitter also. In this way, I can show my students good educational twitterers I am following. I believe through my twitter I can guide my students to follow instructive, edifying and beneficial twiiterers.

Last but not least, I would teach my students how to use twitter educationally and intelligently instead  of using it as an on-line chatting application for as a teacher, we do not want them to use twitter as a killing time tool, do we?