Twitter
Finally I manage to follow the twitter in
#Edchat. It is really overwhelming how many people participate in this forum
.This incredible collaborative tool allows such an enormous information
flow or should I call it overflow. The solutions offered to the various
problems are fantastic. Out of the 120 suggestions I copied links for only 20
and it took me the whole day to follow up and go into the different suggested
links. The system is similar to the Russian dolls where a smaller doll is
placed within a bigger one…and it goes on and on. (My head is still spinning
now).Here are some of the suggested links I found very useful:
vsb.li/wPoC2a Beginners guide for ICT security J
http://bit.ly/GHmHvk
28 ways to use twitter in class
http://www.text2mindmap.com/ really great tool for categorization
Though the messages on Twitter are very, very short the
content is really extensive and an eye opener to what is out there. In class I
would use it maybe as a research tool each students should find a site for
specific information and then we bring all the info together maybe on a blog. As a
tool to share specific information....Excellent!!!
When
finishing up a lesson I try to round up the lesson with the question "What
do you know now that you didn't know before?" So here is what I know now
after being expose to the twitter section:
I know how to:
- Open a twitter account
- To add people I want to follow
- To reply to twitters
- To twitter/tweed
- To go the hagtash (more here and here) and follow the chat there
- How to shorten web addresses
What I don't know
- To close the twitter so only students can participate (if possible).
- How to time-efficiently check the new links.
- How to organizes all the new useful links.
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