my last post may have inadvertently served as a segue from consideration of multimodal tools to this week's theme of tools for online networking. Certainly twitter, facebook, tumblr, myspace, livejournal - all platforms that I use - have great potential for use by adult learners in different ways. While similar in many ways, each also serves a particular, sometimes only slightly different, sort of function.
For our purposes, twitter and facebook are the more obvious choices for use with people new to social networking - they're relatively easy to use (relatively), are fairly clear visually and, once one has poked around, fairly intuitive. (fairly).
Security issues need to be addressed, of course. But what about a scavenger hunt on facebook, for example, to get folks started? What if clues to the scavenger hunt were posted via twitter?
Am I actually suggesting this?
purpose, tool. purpose, tool.
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