Plunking is very wierd. It is like the "What's on your mind?" bar on Facebook except you chronicle more of your life's mundane details. Does anyone really care enough to follow my every waking internet musing?
Okay, I've got a bit of a rant stewing, so I'll ask for your indulgence up front.
I noticed that you became a fan of me on Plurk, but didn't friend me (which is required), yet you blogged the same day about it and never gave Plurk a chance. Granted, you may not be a fan of Facebook, but I don't use Facebook for professional reasons at all. I tried that road and it wasn't very appealing. In fact, it wasn't appealing at all until I started using it to get in touch with old friends and students.
Microblogging, however, is very, very different - IF you give it the slightest chance. What was one important message that I communicated in the Flowgram video? It takes TIME to build a network. Rome wasn't built in a day and neither is a PLN. You have to invest in it to get a return.
Yes, people are going to Plurk /Tweet (Twitter) about the mundane details of their lives, but my network has over 300 educators who Plurk about valuable educational information that I learn from all the time. Now is microblogging for everyone and will it benefit everyone? No, certainly not. But not even completing the entire Thing task and dismissing it is also hardly fair.
Please keep in mind of the Task blog post requirements, too. Thanks - Caroline
* What were your feelings on social networking before you took this course? Were you active in any form of social networking before you took this course? If so, was it personal or professional? * If you've never gotten involved in social networking for professional purposes, had you ever considered using web-based tools as means of networking with other educators before? * Regarding PLNs (Personal/Professional Learning Networks), what are your initial thoughts about them? * Looking at your own professional practices, do you think building your own PLN could benefit you? Why or why not?
I have now friended/fanned you and a few others I also revisited the site and gave it a second chance.
Social networking has its positive attribute. However, it is systematically killing the English language.
I facebook and I do enjoy the brief snippets of friends lives. It enables me to know what is happening with them when it is difficult to keep in contact through phone calls and correspondance.
I had never thought about utilizing it as a teaching tool. My main concern with using is is the same as my concern with using wikipedia. Sure there is an infinite amount of information available, but it takes forever to sift through who the experts are and who are just charletans who want to soap-box about something. I suppose that with careful cultivating I could find the experts. So I am not saying that I will never use it, I just need to give it more time.
Okay, I've got a bit of a rant stewing, so I'll ask for your indulgence up front.
ReplyDeleteI noticed that you became a fan of me on Plurk, but didn't friend me (which is required), yet you blogged the same day about it and never gave Plurk a chance. Granted, you may not be a fan of Facebook, but I don't use Facebook for professional reasons at all. I tried that road and it wasn't very appealing. In fact, it wasn't appealing at all until I started using it to get in touch with old friends and students.
Microblogging, however, is very, very different - IF you give it the slightest chance. What was one important message that I communicated in the Flowgram video? It takes TIME to build a network. Rome wasn't built in a day and neither is a PLN. You have to invest in it to get a return.
Yes, people are going to Plurk /Tweet (Twitter) about the mundane details of their lives, but my network has over 300 educators who Plurk about valuable educational information that I learn from all the time. Now is microblogging for everyone and will it benefit everyone? No, certainly not. But not even completing the entire Thing task and dismissing it is also hardly fair.
Please keep in mind of the Task blog post requirements, too. Thanks - Caroline
* What were your feelings on social networking before you took this course? Were you active in any form of social networking before you took this course? If so, was it personal or professional?
* If you've never gotten involved in social networking for professional purposes, had you ever considered using web-based tools as means of networking with other educators before?
* Regarding PLNs (Personal/Professional Learning Networks), what are your initial thoughts about them?
* Looking at your own professional practices, do you think building your own PLN could benefit you? Why or why not?
I have now friended/fanned you and a few others I also revisited the site and gave it a second chance.
ReplyDeleteSocial networking has its positive attribute. However, it is systematically killing the English language.
I facebook and I do enjoy the brief snippets of friends lives. It enables me to know what is happening with them when it is difficult to keep in contact through phone calls and correspondance.
I had never thought about utilizing it as a teaching tool. My main concern with using is is the same as my concern with using wikipedia. Sure there is an infinite amount of information available, but it takes forever to sift through who the experts are and who are just charletans who want to soap-box about something. I suppose that with careful cultivating I could find the experts. So I am not saying that I will never use it, I just need to give it more time.