Twitter

Twitter has a great potential of supporting in education. It is really easy and fast to register for a Twitter account and then start using it. I had not have any idea about hash tag before, but now I know it would be one of the most useful advantages that Twitter brings to us. I personally can find the topic that I want to know in no time. For example, I can find many conversations about my favorite comic on Twitter. Thinking about applying hash tag in education, I think the learners can attend a discussion by searching for the hash tag of the class. Furthermore, students can find, connect and "follow" their classmates and teacher. It would be easier to catch up the discussion in class. There is a problem when I follow too many people on Twitter, so that the topic can be hard to be found on home page. Nevertheless, the "list" feature resolved this problem. I created 2 lists for my Twitter account: "friends" and "entertainer". The list "Friends" helps me to follow my friends, catch up with their new tweets and communicate with them. On the other hand, the list "Entertainer" is used for tracking news from singers or music bands that I follow. It would be useful for students to lend their friends who come from different classes into different lists, so that they have no problem in finding their class and its conversation. It has the same advantage for the teacher to list out his or her classes. The website www.bit.ly resolves the limitation of a message from Twitter. It limits each message's length is 140 characters and will lead to an inconvenience when people want to share a link to other websites. However, www.bit.ly will shorten the length of those links and make it fit with a Twitter message. Now the teacher can share a link of an instructive video to his or her students within a single Twitter message. Twitter can also connects teacher with parents, they can talk to each other and discuss about the learning process of the student. In conclusion, Twitter is really convenient for both students and teacher to improve their studying.

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