Thursday, June 3, 2010
Before this class I was 100% against Twitter. I just thought it was completely useless and a waste of time. I had never known that Twitter could have benefits for other reasons then telling other people mundane facts about your life that no one really cares about in the first place. After having Twitter for a couple weeks I am not sure if my opinion of it has changed much. I did take time to look for people to follow who would be able to give me insights to the education and technology world, I also did some research into the Deaf community considering I am going into Deaf Education. I was able to find people to follow but I still do not believe that they are giving me any information that is that helpful. Most of the people I am following hardly ever update, and the ones that do hardly say anything that is of any use to me. Maybe I am doing something wrong, or I haven't found the right people, I am not sure. But I think it is easy to say, I am still not that big of a fan.
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I agree! I never would have gotten a twitter if it was not for this class. And, I have not been impressed during the few weeks in which I have been part of the twitter community. I especially hate that you can only tweet up to 160 characters at a time. The only use twitter has to me thus far is to follow celebrities I am interested in and to be connected with the MSU tweeters. I have yet to find any worthwhile education tweeters to follow. I did add a couple of Deaf Education related tweeters but the only one I found that actually creates posts often is Deaf News Today (http://twitter.com/DeafNewsToday). And they do post some interesting information, so they are worthwhile to follow to me. But I am still waiting to find what makes twitter so great, as well as find out how twitter can be beneficial to me as a future educator.
ReplyDeleteI was boycotting Twitter for the longest time! I didn't see the point in following the daily activities of celebrities and I definitely couldn't see an educational advantage to it! I have found a lot of Twitter-ers that are related to Deaf Education and of MSU. I haven't really been too interested in Twitter yet, but maybe after this class I will try to keep working on it. I think it has a lot of potential for the classroom, as long as somebody uses it regularly.
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