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Hi blogger!
This week I have came across an awesome article that I found on my feedly that us university and college students may find very helpful throughout our educational journey. This article talks about 10 simple hacks to land better grades. I believe is very evident to my learning because it is always nice to see how others achieve their goals and if these recommendations will make a difference in my education.
This week I added another tool to my personal learning environment called Twitter. I deleted twitter back when I was in high school as I did not find much use for it other than tweeting what I was doing or retweeting what others have tweeted. After using it throughout this weeks session, I have found many more uses for it that can benefit my education and make me grow as a digital learning. I am sure most of you know what twitter is or have used it before. If you are new to Twitter or have no idea what it is, it is a social networking tool. It allows you to send and read tweets which are short messages containing 140 characteristics. You can also include "hashtags" in your tweet which is represented by a pound sign (#). These hashtags allow us to identify messages on a specific topic like this course #ADED1P32. By clicking on hashtags will then bring me to a page where others have hashtaged the same topic. This tool will be very useful in my educational activities as there are many ways you can use twitter in the classroom. By tracking a hashtag topic you can communicate and collaborate with others that are tweeting about the same thing. I can also connect and network with educators such as kinesiology professors who have twitter by following them as they post insightful ideas regarding my degree. Every week I am learning more about becoming a digital citizen and gaining a positive digital literacy. However, after becoming more digitally literate with twitter I have also learned that it can become really negative if you post inappropriate tweets because as soon as you tweet anyone in the twitter world can view it if you are open to the public which will build a negative digital footprint.
This week I also learned about my personal learning network (PLN). It is an informal way of learning that allows people to interact with each others because anyone who I interact with over social media or networking sites build my PNL. These interactions build my knowledge in both technology and collaborative skills as you need to communicate with others. When looking at my personal learning environment, I will definitely add this to my week 2 PLE of technologies that I use. I would categorize twitter under collaboration because it allows me to share information with people that I may not normally communicate with. By doing so, this opens up my circle of contacts to an ever-growing community of like-minded people. I would also categorize twitter under socialization because I am able to engage in informal conversations with other twitter users as well as sent direct messages to others.
Thanks for reading!
This week I added another tool to my personal learning environment called Twitter. I deleted twitter back when I was in high school as I did not find much use for it other than tweeting what I was doing or retweeting what others have tweeted. After using it throughout this weeks session, I have found many more uses for it that can benefit my education and make me grow as a digital learning. I am sure most of you know what twitter is or have used it before. If you are new to Twitter or have no idea what it is, it is a social networking tool. It allows you to send and read tweets which are short messages containing 140 characteristics. You can also include "hashtags" in your tweet which is represented by a pound sign (#). These hashtags allow us to identify messages on a specific topic like this course #ADED1P32. By clicking on hashtags will then bring me to a page where others have hashtaged the same topic. This tool will be very useful in my educational activities as there are many ways you can use twitter in the classroom. By tracking a hashtag topic you can communicate and collaborate with others that are tweeting about the same thing. I can also connect and network with educators such as kinesiology professors who have twitter by following them as they post insightful ideas regarding my degree. Every week I am learning more about becoming a digital citizen and gaining a positive digital literacy. However, after becoming more digitally literate with twitter I have also learned that it can become really negative if you post inappropriate tweets because as soon as you tweet anyone in the twitter world can view it if you are open to the public which will build a negative digital footprint.
This week I also learned about my personal learning network (PLN). It is an informal way of learning that allows people to interact with each others because anyone who I interact with over social media or networking sites build my PNL. These interactions build my knowledge in both technology and collaborative skills as you need to communicate with others. When looking at my personal learning environment, I will definitely add this to my week 2 PLE of technologies that I use. I would categorize twitter under collaboration because it allows me to share information with people that I may not normally communicate with. By doing so, this opens up my circle of contacts to an ever-growing community of like-minded people. I would also categorize twitter under socialization because I am able to engage in informal conversations with other twitter users as well as sent direct messages to others.
Thanks for reading!
Jess
Hi Jessica,
ReplyDeleteYou note "This week I added another tool to my personal learning environment called Twitter. I deleted twitter back when I was in high school as I did not find much use for it other than tweeting what I was doing or retweeting what others have tweeted."
This made me smile. I wonder how many other people in our class are in a similar situation. Thank you for including the personal connection.
Sheila
Hi Jessica,
ReplyDeleteI am one of those people Professor Goodfellow is talking about in her previous comment. I was in the same situation where I looked at my previous Twitter account and used it to post personal updates and retweet. I found it very unnecessary so I deleted my account too! However as you mentioned, week 5's module showed me many more worthwhile uses for Twitter that can benefit my learning.
Thanks for sharing, I enjoy reading your posts!
Hi Brooke,
ReplyDeletePlease call me Sheila! I think there is value in first names especially in an online environment.
Sheila