Confessions of an elearning skeptic

Just when I felt that I was strting to get my head around most of the current social networking technology along comes the idea of microblogging. Microblogging is like blogging, but the entries are restricted in length (no more then 140 characters in total).The main microblogging site is Twitter and I have included a great video overview of Twitter below:

So what’s the deal with twitter? I must admit that, being the skeptic that I am, my initial reaction was ‘here’s more of that quantity over quality that I spoke about in my last ponderings’. However, given my new open-mindedness to new technology, I thought I would give it a go and look a little more deeply to see if this can be put to some greater use than finding out my friends are have a coffee in front of the TV.

Well, after some digging around I did start to unearth some early uses of twitter for education, such the one shown below:

I also located this interesting video about when to use microblogging and when to use normal blogging in an educational setting:

There also an interesting site which oveviews the whole idea of microblogging that you might want to check out:

http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreports/2007/10/30/microblogging-what-is-it-good-for

Given my initial diggings microblogging certainly seems to be gathering momentum and, given that it has generation Y written all over it, will need to be a consideration in the educational context when dealing with this audience. I will continue to resaerch and keep you all posted.

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