Thoughts about Twitter after reading

   I have chose two articles from my teachers` Diigo. These are useful to me. One of them tells me about actions what I should not do in Twitter. It lists ten actions like doing advertising, showing being loved and judging professional things with own prejudice. I totally agree with the author and this article reminds me a lot as a beginner in Twitter. The other article recommends me some awesome twitters classified by their subject. It is convenient for people looking for particular fields. And this collection of helpful twitters is valuable. I think Twitter is a place people can share various resources, exchange ideas and get responds immediately. I will check it usually from now on.

Article 1：10 Twitter Mistakes You Should Avoid

Article 2: Using Twitter for Teachers` Professional Development

Twitter Chat

It is not my first time to use this kind of chat, but in twitter with professional topic, I have never been in.  I have attend a chant called #web2.0tools. This group mainly focus on the Internet technology in education. People share their idea about the advantages and influence of various learning websites, and also do lots of recommendation. I have tried some, they are very useful and I never knew it. I think TC can be a good way for teachers to get knowing about the educational tendacy which is changing rapidly. Teachers and students will keep pace with the world by twitter. Being on time must raise the learning effciency of student as they can gain more help and creative methods. In adiition, people exchange ideas in anytime under the same chat topic. They can help each other and improve together.

Classroom 2.0

    This website provides a place for thousands of educators talking about their same interests. There are lots of communities based on different topics, participants can exchange their idea with other members.Also you can find abundant resources here. It is very useful both for teachers and students.

A learner is like a cell phone

According to materials the 590 syllabus gave, the image of connectivism in my mind becomes clearer and clearer. It is really a creative concept to me and I agree with this idea. I think a learner is like a cell phone today. What cause my thought are two reasons: updating and communication.

There is one key principle of connectivism is “Capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known” (George Siemens). I think this is very important. If an advanced learner does not have ability or desire to keep learning, he will be a loser finally. The world is changing every day, staying means retrogressing. I also watch the video about network learning, which shows influence of network on learning. Nowadays we more rely on some software to learn knowledge or exchange ideas. Actually we did communication naturally in the past by letters and phone calls, but now we extend it to available technology like blog. It means that connecting oneself to others and the outside world is a important elements in learning. Idea in the video has similar stand with the article: “What we know today is not as important as our ability to continue to stay current.” “The way we are connected to other individuals is largely responsible for our ability to continue.”

In the result, the function of cell phone is communicating with others to exchange ideas and share information. This is more like what a good learner needs to do. Also people want to have a cell phone which can be updated constantly in order to keep pace with the times. That accord with what I talked just now, good learners should use more convenient and effective ways to improve themselves.

Article: Connectivism

Video: The network is the learning

Diggo VS Scoop. it

    In mod 4, I have learned two tools called Diggo and Scoop It. They are all websites that can help people filter millions of information and choose what you want. Diggo's main function is marking website. People can add any website as bookmark and give them specific desciption. Tags can be added in to help people classify various website. Any texts can be highlight by Diggo tools. Refers to Scoop, it mainly classify aiticles by topic. People can creat own topic and give each tags, Scoop will search relevant passages for you and you can collect what you like in your topic. These two are all very convenient and personal when one aims to look for a particular topic. In addition, users can choose other participants to follow to pay attention to their collections, which is a good way to share information. I will recommend D&S to my future students and even everyone!