Reflection #6

Tutorial 3 & 4

A) How has twitter (micro-blogging) enhanced your learning of EIR? Compare this with your blogging experience using Blogspot.

B) How can you use Twitter and Blogspot for research purposes?

Hi all!

Basically, I like to use twitter to a certain extent, but if it were to be in comparison to blogging using Blogspot, I would still prefer Blogspot.

But I must say, Twitter has indeed enhance my learning of EIR, take for example, when I was doing my research on my chosen topic, I chance upon Designboom.com which is a electronic magazine, it has daily updates and has a very good coverage of applications. The good thing that Designboom offers is a short updates of their daily post via twitter, and people can get access to them simply just by joining them on twitter.

And I had benefited from this as I can get updates on the latest design which they have posted up on their magazines and if I'm interested enough, I can then decide whether to look up for them and apply them into my assignment. And this is one thing that I found really useful and it really enhance my learning in EIR as I realise the good and effective use of twitter in academic wise.

Other than the application of Twitter in my academic, I believe Twitter can also create a certain impact in my personal life as well. I am currently a Twitter but not a regular one. Reason being, I feel that Twitter is a platform for shout outs, which many other application such as facebook and msn personal message had already. The shout out would also stay there so long as the user do not remove them, and I think they possessed the same function. However, I do not totally object the use of Twitter in my life as I am still a amateur, it might bring me great advantage one day in the near future when I finally get to realise the full potential of Twitter.

Blogspot is a platform where its being used by people to post about their daily reflection (most). And I think that the content of information is much more in comparison to the short twit that people twit. Firstly, Blogspot allows more characters and thus making the content richer.

Secondly, with a rich content, emotions can at least be felt in comparison to twits from twitter.

Thirdly, Blogspot can also be use as an electronic journal or magazine like Designboom.com which in hence give updates on certain information to people.

Fourthly, Blogspot had also been made use as a platform where bloggers starts their business and earning their revenue.

However, i feel that the cons about Blogspot is that is has a URL and usually people have to remember the URL to get to the web which can be a form a hassle to many.

Other than that, I think that Blogspot is still a better medium to enhance not only my academic but also personal life.