Hello Everyone,
The focus of this week’s session was
microblogging, and building upon our personal learning network (PLN). I really enjoyed this week’s material as I
found it to be an area of interest for myself, and one that is talked about on
a regular basis by most people these days. It was interesting to find out just
how significant a role microblogging plays in developing your PLN.
As described by dictionary.com,
microblogging is when you post very short entries, as a brief update or a
photo, on a blog or social-networking website. To me personally, microblogging really kicked
it into gear as soon as social media and text messaging hit the stage. Social
media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn are all microblogging
platforms that I use today, that have helped me expand my PLN. By simply
posting a brief message to one of these sites, you are creating a microblog
post.
Additionally, text messaging and E-mail have
played a large role in the microblogging world. Almost everyone sends a text
message daily. In my opinion, this is exactly like posting a microblog. Through
a text message you are not going into lengthy detail about a topic, rather, you
are briefly describing the topic of interest and awaiting a response from
another person in your PLN.
Above, I have briefly described a couple of
ways that I am currently building upon my PLN through social media, and
frequent contact with others. Looking
back at Week 2 for this class, we were provided with a blog post by Clint
Lalonde called “Twitter, PLEs and PLNs,” which describes a PLN as the sum of all social capital and connections that result in the
development and facilitation of a personal learning environment. The underlying message of this definition,
and why people want to build a PLN, is to interact with and learn from others
through a social platform.
My exploration with Twitter…
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My main discovery this week during my
exploration of Twitter was just how great of a tool it is for building your
PLN. Before taking this class, I had my own Twitter account that I used
strictly for following people and keeping up to date. What I didn’t realize was how much I was
hindering my own PLN by not partaking in the tweeting part of Twitter. After I
released my first tweet under my student ADED twitter account, I gained
immediate new followers and favorites to my tweets just by mentioning something
of interest to another user. This instantaneously allowed to me expand my PLN
with those Twitter users. I can see this being a great benefit of Twitter as it
allows you to connect and interact with those who are interested in the same
topics as you.
Another benefit I find Twitter possesses
and how it can contribute to building ones knowledge is its follow
feature. With having the ability to
follow whomever you want on Twitter, it allows you to stay up to date and
current, with topics you find interesting.
For someone like myself who is interested in Finance and the stock
market, I can follow accounts relating to these topics and read updates as soon
as they are posted to twitter.
My RSS Feed Reader…
A post that I stumbled upon this week
through Feedly seemed very fitting for the way this week started…Snow Days!
This blog post, written by a Brock University student blogger named Krista,
talks about the expectations versus reality of a snow day in University. I
found the post to be quite funny and true. With the expectation of a snow day
being playing outside in the snow and enjoying it with friends, the reality of
it as a University student is playing catch up in those classes you have fallen
behind in. Additionally, the post captures a screen shot of when the make up
days are for those of you who did miss a class during this day.
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For those of you who would like to read
more, visit the article, “Snow Days: Reality vs Expectation.”
I hope you enjoyed this weeks post.
Take care,
Chris
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