As BWP states, “Welcome to the Twitterverse!” In chapter 6, “The Social Web,” is where this section is located. I have heard of Twitter, but honestly, I haven’t become a “tweeter” yet. I’m not hardly convinced it’s worth my time. I admit, I do the whole Facebook thing, but I definitely limit myself on my time spent on such things because if you aren’t careful one link leads to another, and another, and another, and well, you get the picture. Before you know it time has flown by and you’re still left with a pile of English homework–yey. However, this section on the “Twitterverse” has made me respect all the “tweeters” out there a little more.
I like how they use the term “a network at my fingertips” to describe how Twitter has evolved into something much more helpful (and even educational), as opposed to simply posting whatever you are doing for that second in time and following all these people. (I don’t know, but to me that’s kind of “stalkerish” isn’t it?) Anyhow, I thought it would be useful to use their idea and follow other educators to get ideas for lesson plans, school assignments, or just teaching in general. I’ll talk all the help I can get.
I like how the sections moves on the encourage us in ways to instruct our students to use Twitter in a more educational manner. They give a blog from the “Twitter in Academia” called academicHack blog that’s worth checking out. Who knows, I may be tweeting sooner rather than later…
dcrovitz Said:
on October 20, 2009 at 10:44 am
Like you I am somewhat skeptical of the Twitter movement…although in the recent Iranian unrest, tweets were a primary way that protesters were able to convey information about harsh gov’t actions to the rest of the world….