Titter and Tweeting

After watching the video of the teacher who has her students tweet in class I think its a really cool idea. I dont know how it could be  used in a writing class, but in a lit class it would be really a great tool. What was so good about it was that she was showing what people were tweeting as the class was going so that people could see in the class. I have found that so many students do want to raise their hand and contribute but are willing to do this and so they are being active in the class while doing something they like to do. I keep saying this but if we dont teach them how to use all this technology to their advantage it will be used in ways that we dont want them to use it. I have way too many students who think what is on the web is for them to use and if we dont show them it is not they will use it that way. This is the same thing that Twitter needs to be used for. I dont think that telling use what someone had for breakfast is essential but the sports scores or what some politican is doing is goood.