Using a twitter account for school
I have set up a twitter account for school: @BudeSchool. I used it infrequently to post info about school events but never really used it effectively. Also, followers were few and far between. However, twitters popularity has increased massively with our students and also the parents. (Twitter is now the second most popular form of communication with radio 1). So I have now revisited our account. Still need to get the pupils and parents to follow us, but it is slowly increasing.
This time I decided to use the functionality of socialoomph (used to be tweetlater). I have now set up the whole school calendar to auto tweet, and the account also auto follows and sends a “thank you for following” DM.
One caveat, if students follow you, then you see their tweets. This has caused me a few issues.
1. Do I really want to see their thoughts about their lessons?
2. Do I need to see their creative use of language?
3. Do I need to know what they are doing?
I am also going to show the Head how to use it so that he can have the opportunity to update. The next question is, who else needs to have access?