Monday, April 27, 2009

Reflection

EDM310 has been an interesting and very knowledgeable class for me. Before I came to this class, I had never created a blog or heard of podcasting, and thought google was just for finding information. This class educated me on the different technologies that can be used in my educational career. I really enjoyed the class. As technology is always changing and advancing, I know the class will also, but most of all this class advanced me. Thanks for being a great educator!

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Tweeter

I have learned from Twitter that it is an interesting and unique social network. My reactions to Twitter is amusing. I believe the benefits of Twitter for the teacher will great for the professional realm for communication between teachers but for the classroom I believe it will not benefit. With Twitter you can visualize a reader following your page as if they were reading a daily newspaper column. The negative aspect of Twitter is that it is more public than personal as with Facebook. Anyone can read your page unless you block it as with Facebook your page is automatically block. Also, you have followers and not friends and therefore you have to keep it more professional, interesting and indepth. As an indiviual, I would not use Twitter, but on the professional side, as a teacher,I would use it to communicate with other teachers. Twitter is a good social network for professional indiviuals.