Thing #19

Visit TeacherPop

Are You in the Club?

     

     Are you making the best of the social networks that are available?  TeacherPop is an online community that is built by a teacher from my University.  TeacherPop is  connecting new teachers with one another every day with a social network that is much the same as any other network, but it is focused for educators.  This is the future.  Soon, lesson plans will be things that people will share across the country with ease and personal touches.  It's already being done via downloads, but sites like teacherpop are going to change the way we, as educators look at the world that we teach with. 

      I am apart of several different sites that are moving forward in a professional manner.  I love music, as I am a musician, therefore I follow what is new, upcoming, and exciting for me in that environment.  

     One site that I would suggest to anybody that is interested in communicating with others over a professional network of musicians is:  PureVolume 

     

   PureVolume is an open site that allows you to communicate with others who share the same taste in music, as well as the same ideas in music.  Share music and talk it over with friends; it doesn't get much better than that.

     By having a firm grasp on what is out there for social networks you are including yourself in a never stopping wave of change that will never hesitate in motion.  This is a lesson that students should know.  There are resources that involve other people's thoughts, reactions, and so forth.  By understanding that students can research bias and demographics on social media sites you are giving a new taste to your teaching.  Engage students in reaching into new places that are available to them.  They will learn so much on their own if we let them.  Homework could simply be, "Find a Band that you believe in, then write about why you believe they are a band worth investing in."  Easy enough.  Students will be working on creating a bias belief in a personal favorite and supporting that with rhetoric.  Two birds, one stone.

     As for educators, there will always be great ideas that are thrown around with other professionals on sites such as TeacherPop.  Join up and find your niche.