Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr are just a few of the learning communities that you can be a part of. I personally love Facebook, but was just not interested enough in Twitter. I signed up for an account, created a name, and spent some time checking out my friends pages and various celebrities pages but that was as far as I got- and that was years ago! I never saw the benefit of trying to tweet something that could only be a certain amount of characters when I could do the same thing on Facebook but was able to have the freedom to have it be as many characters as I wanted. I felt the same way when Instagram first became popular and #hashtags were the new thing, but I now LOVE Instagram so I thought maybe I could love Twitter to and this would be the perfect way to try again.
After spending some time on Twitter I am sorry to say that I am still not a huge fan. Maybe it is because it is still so new to me, but I still am not 100% into it. I spent some time thinking about how I may use this in the library and while it would be cool to have students follow me on Twitter I don't see it being as effective as it could be if I was using it with middle or high school students.
While searching for the various #hashtags I saw some pretty cool people who are in the same learning communities as me, and I am sure I would be able to learn a thing or two from them. For me I would rather use Twitter to explore and follow who is in my learning community and obtain valuable resources and information, rather than be the one tweeting all the time!
I felt the same way about Twitter when it first came out. I now follow several friends, colleagues and companies on my personal Twitter account and there's one for the SLS @DutchessSLS. I'm still snooping around Instagram. :-) It's probably because I'm just not use to it. I know other who are like you and LOVE Instagram. Each time I think that I'm keeping up...I'm still two steps behind. :-) Great post!
ReplyDeleteI felt the same way about Twitter when it first came out. I now follow several friends, colleagues and companies on my personal Twitter account and there's one for the SLS @DutchessSLS. I'm still snooping around Instagram. :-) It's probably because I'm just not use to it. I know other who are like you and LOVE Instagram. Each time I think that I'm keeping up...I'm still two steps behind. :-) Great post!
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