Joining Twitter

I had a personal Twitter account, but decided to have a teacher one to focus on education connections I can make instead of trying to sort through the authors and personal interests to find professional Tweets. 

As technology pessimists might predict, the Twitter site wasn't working yesterday as I tried and tried again and again to join! One negative aspect of being reliant on technology is the need for two things:

1. A backup plan for when the bulb burns out, the server is down, the students can't log in, or the website is being repaired. Backing up your computer files and information is also a good idea.

2. Patience. And more patience for when things don't work exactly as planned, you lose saved files, and you can't get things to work like the workshop.

I think something else people need is perseverance. That kind of goes with patience, but it's that little extra step beyond. It's having the toughness to not give up when the website doesn't load or the video doesn't play. It's being able to revise a lesson plan so that even though it was a mess in the computer lab THIS time, it will go better next time.

The little exercise of joining Twitter reminded me of these qualities as we work with technology. Check me out on Twitter: http://twitter.com/MissMEmmons