Sure, programs like Twitter are a boon for campus communities and for
social circles of all kinds. But what if you want different groups of
acquaintances to know different things about how you’re spending the
day? What if you don’t want certain people – your boss, for example – to
know what you’re really doing? Then you need Swarm...
Short video on Twitter. Produced by common craft.
Don’t think Twitter has a place in your library? Give these suggestions a try and maybe you’ll change your mind.
I think I have found the perfect place to reflect on the way a network, and specifically how Twitter, can impact on what goes on in the classroom. No mains gas, no telephones, no mobile signal, no internet connection, no possible way to interact with my personal learning network (PLN). Tucked away in the Cornish countryside the location of the cottage we are staying in provokes vocabulary such as: isolated, severed, detached and remote. But similar rhetoric could also be applied to the lack of connection I have with my network. I am removed from the network I want to reflect upon and away from the classroom that it can impact. This perspective is welcome as it offers me clarity of thought, as I write, that I have not had for a long time. In this post I hope to unpick what my Twitter network means to me in terms of my classroom practise and explore the best ways that you can utilise it in your own classroom.
I must admit that when I first heard about Twitter I thought it represented the apex of what concerns me about internet technology: solipsism and sound-bite communication. While I obviously spend a great deal of time online and thinking about the potential of these new networked digital communication structures, I also worry about the way that they too easily lead to increasingly short space and t
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Sure, programs like Twitter are a boon for campus communities and for social circles of all kinds. But what if you want different groups of acquaintances to know different things about how you’re spending the day? What if you don’t want certain people – your boss, for example – to know what you’re really doing? Then you need Swarm...
Don’t think Twitter has a place in your library? Give these suggestions a try and maybe you’ll change your mind.
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