I really appreciated the use of Twitter this week in class! Microblogging can be tricky, because your fitting information into such a small character restriction requires your ideas and information to be succinct and to the point. I often seem to elaborate more easily than I condense, which means microblogging is a challenge for me! This challenge, however is encouraging me to develop my digital literacy. Being able to communicate clearly through multiple platforms encourages a more well rounded appreciation for the digital context. Twitter works as both a networking tool and learning tool. You are able to so freely connect with people on various topics using hashtags, while simultaneously gathering information on the same hashtag. Using the lists features allows for a more specific news feed, and the messages section propels the networking function.
Twitter is actually already on my PLE that I created in week #2! I have used this tool before but the functionality of it I was not as familiar with. I have had Twitter for a number of years, but I have not consistently used it either for posting or learning.
I also enjoyed the focus on other students in the class this week. We were encouraged to comment and read each others blogs and discussion topics and I found that there were many other ways to use the tools we had previously set up. This collaboration for next week will be much easier knowing some of the ways digital tools can encourage successful learning.
This week I came across and interesting article on my Feedly from a newly followed website BlogTo. With all-star weekend and the Auto Show being packing into the up coming weekend, traffic would be expected. BUT the Toronto taxi protest may block the Gardiner on Friday! Thanks to my Feedly reader I will be taking an alternate route as I was planning on Driving through Toronto on the weekend.
Coming into this course, I though I was already very familiar with many of the tools I can use to advance my digital learning. Little by little, however, I am finding that there are so many more uses for the tools I already use, and there a so many tools that I had never heard of! I was surprised I had never heard of Twitter lists before, and upon reading how to access them, I can see very clearly that they can be used very easily and efficiently.
I also enjoyed the focus on other students in the class this week. We were encouraged to comment and read each others blogs and discussion topics and I found that there were many other ways to use the tools we had previously set up. This collaboration for next week will be much easier knowing some of the ways digital tools can encourage successful learning.
This week I came across and interesting article on my Feedly from a newly followed website BlogTo. With all-star weekend and the Auto Show being packing into the up coming weekend, traffic would be expected. BUT the Toronto taxi protest may block the Gardiner on Friday! Thanks to my Feedly reader I will be taking an alternate route as I was planning on Driving through Toronto on the weekend.
Long live Uber!
Hello Karina,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your blog because we have similar experiences. Similar to you I have used Twitter before and I was familiar with how it worked. Until completing this weeks criteria I did not know how to create a Twitter list. In fact I did not even know they existed. I now have use Twitter lists and I can now say that they are very useful!
I also enjoy reading articles from BlogTo!
Deanna
Hi Karina,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading your blog. Like you, I also am familiar with Twitter and it is a part of my PLN. But like many tools we use in this class I was still surprised by all the things twitter has to offer.
I am aware of the BlogTo article you are referring to and as a torontonian I have experience the ruckus the taxi drives create.
Kev
Hello Karina,
ReplyDeleteThank you for the interesting post! It's great that you were already familiar with Twitter prior to this class unlike me where Twitter is whole new experience in the social media hub. Personally, I never really found the need to post status updates or share experiences on a constant basis since Facebook and Instagram met my needs but I am interested to using Twitter as a learning platform. I also found microblogging challenging since it forced me to condense my thoughts to the point which I was never really good at but this process will hopefully enable me to achieve this with ease. It’s great that you were already familiar with the many tools that course already introduced as that means you’re pretty tech affluent while me on other hand is embracing tools such as Twitter as a learning process. I am currently listed in the same research group for Digital Literacy and I’m looking forward to working with you!