I created a Twitter account for this class earlier in the semester and placed a link on my blog for others to follow me on Twitter. Clearly, we are a very social culture and facebook has taken social networking to a level that no other social platform has been able to. I attended the Digital Media Music Summit last week at TPAC in Nashville, TN. I was able to gain insight about social media and found it absolutely remarkable how much of our lives are embedded into its existence. It has become a science...or mathematical concept that business almost completely relies on...or at least the music business. Basically, learning the "system" of how facebook and other social medias work is and should be the goal of each and every artist and company representing an artist today.
If, and it is a huge "IF" I used a social media in the classroom it would be a blog or Twitter. I find that the limited accessible interaction that is capable of becoming more personal than educational is risky for a teacher. I am following Stanford University on Twitter with my account for this class. It is absolutely saturated in valuable information within Tweets. In addition, its current ongoing information that I, as the reader can now be exposed to that would not happen without social media.
In a classroom, ongoing communication is valuable for students, teachers, and parents. The best way is through a social network like facebook. The safest way seems like a blog. There are many ways that these medias are made private and limited for uses by teachers. If anything, It is great for a community of teachers to have and engage in.
Other social networks to be familiar and engage within include tumblr, google+ and foursquare to name a few!
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