I am not a Twitter fan and I thought it was a good opportunity to try it out as part of this course. The thing about tweeting is that there is a word limit on what you can tweet and it has to be succinct and straight to the point, where people can understand the message that you are trying to convey. Unlike Facebook, where we can actually write as much as we want, and be really descriptive and clear on what we want to convey to the readers.
There are definitely pros and cons with the word limit. The good thing is that the tweets are short and sweet, just enough words for people to understand what you are trying to say. Instead of reading through paragraphs after paragraphs of words on Facebook for example, with the tweets, we can basically get a lot more information from various sources and it save us a lot of time. I am a very expressive person in an online environment, where I usually express myself more in words than in face-to-face speeches. Based on this, I think Twitter appeals more to people who are less expressive and more direct kind of a personality. I could be wrong but personally, I don't think I will use it at all. Yesterday night, I was playing with the emoji coding application that Dr Dennen has tweeted on, I created a message that was apparently too long that it doesn't allow me to share on Twitter. So I went back to my message to shorten it a few times just so that it can be shared on Twitter. I googled a little bit on the pros and cons of using Twitter, specifically on the 140 characters limit. It was mentioned that Twitter is more of a broadcasting medium (http://www.adweek.com/fishbowlny/pros-and-cons-of-twitters-140-character-limit-part-1/246479) and that it is not really suitable for conversational type of activities, which I agree to a great extend. We can still engage in conversations but the problem would be that the messages have to be succinct and short.
I like the "moments" tab where the latest news or things happening around the world are readily available to me. I don't have to go on to any news websites to find out what is happening around me. It feels like it is a one stop all encompassing social media platform where I can share information about myself, read the news, share any kind of information and private message people. It is also a very professional type of platform i.e. no games, unlike Facebook, there are many things you can do on Facebook, there are a lot more features as compared to Twitter.
These are just my very first impression on Twitter and my personal experience with using it! I am still exploring it and try to play around with the features to see how everything goes!
Have fun tweeting!!
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Monday, June 27, 2016
A good start!
Hi all!
To be honest, I am still kind of overwhelmed by the amount of concurrent activities and things to do for EME6414. I am trying to check them off from the list of things to do provided by Dr Dennen i.e. creating accounts for Twitter and Blogger, go through the voice threads, read through the syllabus and stuff. Based on the schedules, I think it will be pretty intense as compared to Web Analytics because we are looking across various applications and platforms (not just Blackboard itself) to learn and discuss various ideas and concepts related to the course. However, I think it will be fun!
After going through the Web 2.0 Introduction voice thread, initially I thought it was really interesting to note that people who used Facebook for more than a year had better test scores in verbal ability, spelling and working memory as compared to those who used it for a shorter period of time. After thinking more about it and recalling what I have learned from the Learning Theories and Cognition course, it wasn't actually surprising at all. In the social media environment, there are a lot of social interactions (Constructivisim!!) going on and we learn from one another through these platforms by sharing our knowledge, experiences and ideas, which is also a form of informal learning. As we all know, most of the Facebook activities require the users to type short phrases, sentences, paragraphs or even an essay that are carefully thought through. Through these continuous interactions i.e. posting of statuses, commenting and reading how others comment or write their posts, will help to improve an individual's verbal abilities, spelling and working memory. Personally, when I post a status, reply to someone or comment on others' statuses on Facebook, I will usually read out loud to make sure that what I have typed make sense and is grammatically correct with no spelling error. It feels like I am practicing English language through writing and verbalizing the things that I wrote, in an actual near real-time conversation. Basically, we are just putting our thoughts into words and writing them out on these platforms.
At first I thought Web 2.0 is a tool and I am really glad that Dr Dennen pointed out in the voice thread that Web 2.0 is a philosophy, where users collaborate and interact with one another to create content of a particular subject. I thought Wikipedia itself has a pretty good description of what Web 2.0 is all about and here is the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 . Like Wikipedia itself, users are allowed to create or edit content.
I have had some blogging experience before, I kept a personal Blog for about 3 years but I stopped maintaining it because of the various changes and also restrictions due to privacy issues. This is my second Blog and I am trying to make it a bit more fun, less academic and a little bit more personal. I am just trying to play around it!
To be honest, I am still kind of overwhelmed by the amount of concurrent activities and things to do for EME6414. I am trying to check them off from the list of things to do provided by Dr Dennen i.e. creating accounts for Twitter and Blogger, go through the voice threads, read through the syllabus and stuff. Based on the schedules, I think it will be pretty intense as compared to Web Analytics because we are looking across various applications and platforms (not just Blackboard itself) to learn and discuss various ideas and concepts related to the course. However, I think it will be fun!
After going through the Web 2.0 Introduction voice thread, initially I thought it was really interesting to note that people who used Facebook for more than a year had better test scores in verbal ability, spelling and working memory as compared to those who used it for a shorter period of time. After thinking more about it and recalling what I have learned from the Learning Theories and Cognition course, it wasn't actually surprising at all. In the social media environment, there are a lot of social interactions (Constructivisim!!) going on and we learn from one another through these platforms by sharing our knowledge, experiences and ideas, which is also a form of informal learning. As we all know, most of the Facebook activities require the users to type short phrases, sentences, paragraphs or even an essay that are carefully thought through. Through these continuous interactions i.e. posting of statuses, commenting and reading how others comment or write their posts, will help to improve an individual's verbal abilities, spelling and working memory. Personally, when I post a status, reply to someone or comment on others' statuses on Facebook, I will usually read out loud to make sure that what I have typed make sense and is grammatically correct with no spelling error. It feels like I am practicing English language through writing and verbalizing the things that I wrote, in an actual near real-time conversation. Basically, we are just putting our thoughts into words and writing them out on these platforms.
At first I thought Web 2.0 is a tool and I am really glad that Dr Dennen pointed out in the voice thread that Web 2.0 is a philosophy, where users collaborate and interact with one another to create content of a particular subject. I thought Wikipedia itself has a pretty good description of what Web 2.0 is all about and here is the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 . Like Wikipedia itself, users are allowed to create or edit content.
I have had some blogging experience before, I kept a personal Blog for about 3 years but I stopped maintaining it because of the various changes and also restrictions due to privacy issues. This is my second Blog and I am trying to make it a bit more fun, less academic and a little bit more personal. I am just trying to play around it!
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