Twitter Chat

I'm new to Twitter but until recently I was pretty against social networking in general.  After pushing myself on a few social networking sites, I feel I've discovered an amazing new world for educators. After poking around twitter for a couple days, I discovered that it's a great resource for connecting with other language teachers and I realized how great it is for professional development.

One of Twitter's features is something called a twitter chat. They are basically online meetings for people to share something on a topic they are interested in. I've started to follow several other language teachers. I joined a language chat (#langchat ) where teachers get together every Thursday and Saturday. Here, teachers can share resources, ask questions, and "meet" other language teachers.

I attended a Thursday night language chat and not much was happening. I found that one person shared a resource that was a game I can use in my English language classroom. I think twitter chats will be great for my professional development. I searched through #ELLchat and found that teachers shared teaching tips and resources. I look forward to attending more twitter chats and look forward to learning more from other educators. I know that having a wider PLN will help me greatly.