Microblogging?

Posted January 24th, 2008 by Rudolf

Moved from the SMiELT Wiki’s microblogging page:

Could someone elaborate on what Microblogging actually is? Ta, Karen H.

This definition comes from searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com "Microblogging is the practice of sending brief posts to a personal blog on a microblogging Web site, such as Twitter or Jaiku (pownce and some others). Microposts can be made public on a Web site and/or distributed to a private group of subscribers. Subscribers can read microblog posts online or request that updates be delivered in real time to their desktop as an instant message or sent to a mobile device as an SMS text message."

This video does a good job of explaining Twitter which is one of the microblogging applications. There was also a very active discussion on Classroom2.0 In my EFL20 blog I posted as an example a set of events which took place in the space of 30 mins and which demonstrates the "power" of Twitter.

If you are interested in investigating its potential in ELT in more depth, join the group collab around this topic and discuss it in the forum opened for it.

‹ including MySpace et al Networking through Literature ›
On January 24th, 2008 illya said:

I happened upon a couple of sites that discuss twitter.

Here is one that shows how it can be used for creative writing! This is from Steve Hardagon’s ning.

So it seems that educators are already finding new ways to use twitter. Maybe we’ll come up with other ones too!

On January 29th, 2008 jenverschoor said:

Just wanted to add another example of how Twitter is used in the classroom.

Take a look at Using Twitter with your students

On January 31st, 2008 aliciarey said:

Pownce is great as a microblog for ELT- here is how I exploited it with my students

On January 31st, 2008 jenverschoor said:

Alicia your post is a must for every EFL teacher who wishes to start using Pownce in their classroom.

I will consider powncing this year with my students.

Thanks for sharing :-)

 

On February 12th, 2008 patricia.glogowski said:

I took a look at Pownce and I decided that I really like it after all. It gives more possiblities than Twitter and, what I like the best about it, it allows for multimodal (text, video, etc) expressions. Thanks for pointing us in that direction!