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Thing 3 TWITTER

I took the five week twitter class through UB this fall semester and so I have some familiarity with twitter.  I have made lists.  I have used piktochart.  I have a hashtag @mybookbests.  I have seventeeen followers, mainly the people I took the class with.  

I am still not comfortable using twitter and I find the volume of information overwhelming.  I read through all of the materials that were posted for this assignment and I thought they were excellent.  I learned how to get rid of accounts I was following in my lists that were not useful.  I also joined a couple of new twitter feeds.  I especially like @weareteachers and @pollyaida.

I also took the advice about building professional learning communities and I joined the librarian part of the upcoming ISTE conference.   Two of my colleagues and I have a poster presentation at the June 2017 ISTE conference in San Antonio.   I also joined a couple of the facebook groups that you mentioned that I was not already a part of, namely SLATT and the International librarian facebook page.

I loved using piktochart and I know there are other tools like that and we may use one of them to create our year end annual report.  I can see how twitter could be very useful, however, it is blocked at our school.  I was just informed of a work around.  I was told that the link is not blocked in Schoology, so I plan to create a Schoology page for my library and apparently I will then be able to access facebook and twitter through it.  I have always wanted to use twitter to tweet out book reviews to my students and the community.

I found all of the information posted in the assignment to be very useful and I will be referring back to it.  I also learned how to copy my page from twitter, drop it in paint and then upload it into this blog which was an achievement for this technically challenged neophyte.