I'll start with Twitter, as it's one of my two chosen technologies to write about in my End of Module Assignment (EMA). There are many ways that Twitter can be used for learning but I'm going to focus on two that particularly work for me.
Professional Development
I follow quite a range of other teachers, e-learning specialists, FE organisations, MAODE students, etc. They post, with varying frequency, links to blogs, articles, interesting diagrams and infographics, some of which I find really useful. Of course, I also follow family members, a few friends (though not many) and other things that interest me, such as church stuff, disability stuff and exercise stuff. So, to help me to just see what's relevant, when I want to catch up on Ed-tech, I have a list of 56 people and organisations that I have grouped into a Twitter list.
When I find something that is useful, I 'like' it, so that the original poster knows it's been well-received and, if I think others would find it useful too, I 'retweet'. This also helps me to find it again if I need to, at a later date.
Study
On my current module, Twitter wasn't really being used until quite recently but now, there are a good number of us that are using it to share resources and ask for help with various surveys and polls. Twitter was used really well on a previous module I did - The Networked Practitioner - where we used the course code hashtag, #h818, to track activity with other students.
Hashtags are useful for focussing in on one particular thing. One of my favourite annual events is Eurovision. All around the world, other Eurovision fans go on Twitter and tweet with the hashtag #eurovision2017, or whichever year it is. It's good fun, following the comments, some quite comical, such as the new, revised map showing how Australia got into Eurovision.
Anyway, back to study, I'm obviously not the only one who finds this sharing of resources useful. I followed a link to a fellow student's blog, to find he'd written about some resources I'd shared, that helped him with his EMA.
Can you imagine what the teaching profession could be like, if we all shared our expertise and resources with each other? Well, with Twitter, we can.
Professional Development
I follow quite a range of other teachers, e-learning specialists, FE organisations, MAODE students, etc. They post, with varying frequency, links to blogs, articles, interesting diagrams and infographics, some of which I find really useful. Of course, I also follow family members, a few friends (though not many) and other things that interest me, such as church stuff, disability stuff and exercise stuff. So, to help me to just see what's relevant, when I want to catch up on Ed-tech, I have a list of 56 people and organisations that I have grouped into a Twitter list.
When I find something that is useful, I 'like' it, so that the original poster knows it's been well-received and, if I think others would find it useful too, I 'retweet'. This also helps me to find it again if I need to, at a later date.
Study
On my current module, Twitter wasn't really being used until quite recently but now, there are a good number of us that are using it to share resources and ask for help with various surveys and polls. Twitter was used really well on a previous module I did - The Networked Practitioner - where we used the course code hashtag, #h818, to track activity with other students.
Hashtags are useful for focussing in on one particular thing. One of my favourite annual events is Eurovision. All around the world, other Eurovision fans go on Twitter and tweet with the hashtag #eurovision2017, or whichever year it is. It's good fun, following the comments, some quite comical, such as the new, revised map showing how Australia got into Eurovision.
Anyway, back to study, I'm obviously not the only one who finds this sharing of resources useful. I followed a link to a fellow student's blog, to find he'd written about some resources I'd shared, that helped him with his EMA.
Can you imagine what the teaching profession could be like, if we all shared our expertise and resources with each other? Well, with Twitter, we can.
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