Twitter

Week 4_2. Social Networking

For the online activities for social networking and Twitter, I feel like I didn’t learn anything I already didn’t know. I have both Twitter and Facebook, and I only actively use Facebook. Through this lesson, I still didn’t find anything value in using Twitter. I definitely do not really see a use for it in my organization or in my work. The only thing that came to mind is if students could follow politicians and current events for social science classes. Other than that, Twitter is totally useless to me.

           

 I could really see a use in Facebook, however. I would like to see online discussion on D2L replaced with Facebook. I think Facebook is a great tool to use for facilitating online discussion, especially for younger students that are already actively using Facebook. Many people already use it, and Facebook has many features, like polls, pictures, videos, newsfeed, etc. Utilizing all these features on Facebook will definitely make it a valuable tool in education.

           

 Social Networking impacts the convenience of our learning. We can get updates on our phones and use it as a great way to get quick and important pieces of information to a large amount of people very quickly. Also, it helps for collaborating and sharing ideas. Once an idea is shared, other people that see it can expand and broaden the scope and perspective of the idea. This way everyone is contributing to the analysis of information in the world today.