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MICROBLOGGING

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MICROBLOGGING

 

Microblogging is a very effective way to keep a closed group of people in touch with each other and informed via the instant delivery of short text messages, just like the status update in your facebook account.

 

The content of a microblog differs from a traditional blog in that it is typically smaller in actual size and aggregate file size. A single entry could consist of a single sentence or fragment or an image or a brief, ten second video. But, still, its purpose is similar to that of a traditional blog. Users microblog about particular topics that can range from the simple, such as "what one is doing at a given moment," to the thematic, such as "sports cars," to business topics, such as particular products. Many microblogs provide short commentary on a person-to-person level, share news about a company's products and services, or provide logs of the events of one's life.

 

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE

 

Twitter was built to accommodate being updated from phones. The origin of the 140 character limit is the 160 character limit for SMS, which leaves some space for a name in addition to a 140 character message. 

 

STEPS TO USE TWITTER

1.     Search Twitter (http://search.twitter.com/) for keywords that are meaningful to your research, job or teaching.

2.     Sign up for an account (hint: try to chose a short username!), add a few details about yourself and follow a 5-10 people. Track what they’re ‘tweeting’ each day for a week.

3.     Ready to make some noise? If so, write a few posts about what you’re doing, reading or writing. Also send a reply to someone. (Hint: replies are referred to as “at replies” because you write ‘@username’ to reply to someone.)

4.     Follow somebody famous, e.g. @stephenfry, @lancearmstrong or@BarackObama 

5.     Take a picture and post it on Twitter! (TwitPic and yfrog are popular services)

6.     Encourage students to follow a professional working in a field related to their studies, e.g. a photojournalist, an author, a GP or a web designer.

7.     Want some feedback or opinions from your network? Then ask them a question and ‘crowdsource’ some responses. You’ll be surprised how willing they are to help!

8.     If there’s a conference you can’t attend, find out the conference’s hashtag (used to link related tweets) and track what’s being talked about. Perhaps engage & ask a question?

9.     Been using Twitter via the web for a while? Finding there’s too much to keep track of? Then try using a Twitter client to help make sense of the noise. Tweetdeck, Seesmic and Twhurl are all very popular right now!

10.   Check out other microblogging tools such as identi.ca, Tumblr, Jaiku and Yammer.

 

HISTORY

 

Microblogging appeared around 2006
A microblog is as short as a SMS. 
It is mainly used by cell phoners

 

TYPES

 

SHORT MESSAGES

 

 

SHORT VIDEOS

Microblogging enables teachers and students to:

 

share resources
send notices to each other and generally keep in touch regarding school matters.
set assignments
inform students of their deadlines or of school or college events
Students could use it to send queries to the teachers
The key is that one single message gets delivered to everyone in the group instantly.
 
Microblogging acts as an online notice board. Post your message and everyone in your group gets it. And you could have several groups, one for each of your classes or subjects.
 
LINKS FOR TEACHERS
 
 

 

 

 

 

TRILLR   https://trillr.coremedia.com/

YAMMER https://www.yammer.com/

JISKO   http://jisko.net/

JOINT CONTACT http://jointcontact.com/

TWITTER http://twitter.com/

STATUS http://status.net/wiki/StatusNet_0.8.1

IDENTI.CA http://identi.ca/

MIXIN http://www.mixin.com/

YONKLY http://www.yonkly.com/

PRESENT.LY http://presentlyapp.com/

IDIDWORK http://www.ididwork.com/  

PROLOGUE http://prologue.wordpress.com/

SOCIALCAST http://www.socialcast.com/

EDMODO http://www.edmodo.com/  

 

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