Friday, February 25, 2011
Benefits of Twitter
I see Twitter as a great benefit to the classroom to update students on due date reminders, classroom activity ideas, and even class cancellation notices. Twitter or another microblogging tolld can be used in education for many things including announcements for events, field trips, promotions, activity schedules, and even meeting outcome updates.
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I agree that these are some good uses for Twitter, however, why not just use some of the more user friendly/convenient micro-bloggers available in most webdesign pages or just a blog in general. I am still trying to figure out a purpose. I asked my students on Thursday their opinion of Twitter an none of them really liked it. In fact, the consensus was that it was "lame".
ReplyDeleteIf you want, you can use Twitter and connect it to either a website (http://support.twitter.com/groups/31-twitter-basics/topics/112-linking-to-your-blog-or-website/articles/81218-how-to-link-from-your-website-to-your-twitter-account) or to Facebook (http://support.twitter.com/groups/31-twitter-basics/topics/112-linking-to-your-blog-or-website/articles/31113-how-to-use-twitter-with-facebook). I have found many bloggers actually also tweet about their posts, so it saves me subscribing to the blog and let's me only go to posts that look interesting.
ReplyDeleteI think like any of these tools, your clientele (students or parents) would have to all use the tool and it has to be easy. I find more college students go to Facebook for updates on things, but I have one high school librarian in a class who said all her kids use it. I think no matter what, it will constantly be a moving target. Remember when Myspace was so widely used?