For those of you that haven’t heard of this you’re not alone. Until I was asked to complete this mod in my grad class I had no idea what twitter was either. According to Wikipedia Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates or tweets. Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The best part these text-based posts are limited to 140 characters in length. Short, quick and to the point.I could totally see this technology being used as a communication tool with all of the college classes I teach. Imagine the possibilities.....one mass text to all your students at once; I could let my students know of a change in homework assignment, room assignments, that I was stuck in traffic or that class was canceled with a few strokes of my keyboard. This tool could really help keep the lines of communication open.
Connie,
ReplyDeleteAlthough it would be great to have students follow our tweets, I doubt they would generally want us to follow theirs. However, a way around that would be to have them create an account strictly for academic purposes.
Dr. Burgos