The incorporation of microblogging activities can benefit the online learning environment in several ways. As the instructor, using microblogging could be a useful tool in communicating with the students, presenting details and prompts for assignments as well as posting reminders within a private group. It is a great way to familiarize students with networking techniques and give them a hands on experience by including activities that require them to post their own blogs, interact within a private group of classmates and begin to explore outside networks where they can begin to market themselves in a way that may benefit them in their future ventures.
From what I have seen Micro blogging was used as a networking service that permits a mobile user and different net connected devices to remain up on activities inside a bunch by receiving frequent revealed updates, generally of a hundred and forty characters or less. Text messages are uploaded to a small blogging service like Twitter, Jaiku etc, and then distributed to cluster members. All parties signed within the targeted cluster are instantly notified of the small journal, enabling teams to stay tabs on one another’s activities in real time. A small journal also can be public, with whimsical subscriber’s connection and dropping micro blogs at can.
I can see incorporating microblogging in an online course. Students can use micro blogging as a welfare work to envision what their friend’s are up to, staybconnected for the fun of it,and participating in daily activities like classwork, and studies.
Course leads may also produce micro blogs for committees to stay up on progress of a project assignment.
Another Micro blogging activity could be in an online discussion. It is one among the newest internet applications and may best looked at if you are using a Twitter application like blogging, then micro blogging permits for private publication and spoken language between writers and readers. One distinctive key feature of micro blogging is that the short-and-sweet constraint it poses—the restricted range of characters per entry.
Participants in micro blogging solely get entangled once they desire it. Additionally, micro blogging applications permit users to simply share resources like hyperlinks to web-based transmission, as well as pictures or videos.
Gwendolyn,
Great post. I agree with you that it gives students an area to articulate their knowledge in an organized fashion.
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
Some benefits of incorporating microblogging activities in a course outline can be exchanging brief content about specific or general topics such as gathering a hisotry or quick facts, Communicating with Experts in the field always gives student a new angle on verious subjects or Seeing what others think and compare their thoughts about a topic.
Miriam,
Great points! I think it could take the place of class discussions in the f2f environment as it promotes student engagement with each other.
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
Doni,
You are right. It does allow depth in the answer. You will have to make sure that it is setup correctly and you have expectations in place.
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
It is a good way to promote clear and concise communication to discuss or apply the course information. It is an excellent way to have students apply what they have learned. It is a good way for the instructor to judge the level of understanding that students have over the course content.
It allows the students to not just respond from the heart but also from thought. It allows precise answers due to the short number of characters allowed to tweet and retweet.
It also supports a controlled environment due to the securities that can be set up for the pertinant group.
