EIR09

15January2010

11th Lesson
Tutorial 3 & 4

Lesson today was about Twitter. We were given a link on Twitter case study which talks about the good and bad of it. A short video on it as well. After that we were given Post-IT and to write about how Twitter has helped in my learning. Afterward we were being formed into 3 groups for discussion about Twitter. My group was on the downsides of Twitter. We are to present on our points and listen to what others have to say.

Blog reflection
Briefly reflect on lessons learnt from this tutorial:
1. How has Twitter (micro-blogging) enhanced your learning of EIR? Compare this with your blogging experience using Blogspot.
2. How can you use Twitter and Blogspot for research purposes?

Reflection 1
How has Twitter (micro-blogging) enhanced your learning of EIR? Compare this with your blogging experience using Blogspot.

Twitter allows me to post instant messages of only 140 words to any of my friends who use it. It is like a online-sms. My friends and I can just simply post anything like thoughts, feelings, even information or video links. By doing so, we can keep track on how one another are currently doing or feeling. If links of information are posted, sometimes is not what we know, we actually get to learn new things by clicking on the link which direct us further.

At first I did not use Twitter despite hearing from my friends about it that it is now a trend. I started using because of EIR, was asked to sign up an account. I find that it is a good interaction among your friends, more towards the socializing and interacting part than sharing information. Normally when I log in, status updates are normally thoughts, feelings and random facts about my friends. I think that I will use Twitter more for checking updates of my friends rather than sharing information.

I feel that Blogspot is better than Twitter. I can express more about myself and post more things with images in Blogspot. I can simply edit my post easily in Blogspot whereas for Twitter I cannot edit but got to delete and re-type again. Besides that I can edit and add nice blog skins in Blogspot, making it as my own.


Reflection 2
How can you use Twitter and Blogspot for research purposes?

Both Twitter and Blogspot can be used to shared information easily just by posting a link or an information with images respectively. Now Twitter is a trend. Almost every website has Twitter. I can easily follow on the website on Twitter if I want to know more information about it. Through Twitter I can also collect latest updates of anything about the website whereas through Blogspot I can collect updates of only specific topics based on what the user had posted.

Labels: Tutorial 3 and 4

posted by Kai'en @ 4:44 PM