Chapter 8: Communicating and Collaborating with Social Media
Each chapter we open ourselves up to gives more and more information about new things! The first immediate thing that caught my attention was the section called Synchronous and Asynchronous Communications. The reason this came to my attention was because I have no clue what either one of these mean. It's interesting to learn new things. I learned that synchronous communications are communications that happen immediately, in real time. An example of a synchronous communication is a telephone conversation because it happens in the moment, immediately. Asynchronous communications are involve a communication with a delay involved, not immediate. An example of these exchanges are email exchanging or commenting on social media sites. I think it is important in class to discuss these different types of communications with the students and provide them with an ability to contact you outside of class for help for classwork only.
The next section that grabbed a hold of my attention was the section labeled Understanding Textspeak and Textisms. I thought this section would be perfect for me and I would understand everything because I am 18 years old. Textspeak or digitalk is basically terms that involve shortened words or symbols throughout technology. I thought this would be my section, but as soon as I saw the first set of words, my thoughts were mixed up. I had no idea what was being said in the first set of words, the other ones I knew. I believe that it would be good for teachers to incorporate textspeak into what they need to learn because it is important to know what students are talking about. As teachers, we have to promote a safe environment for the kids. If we collect a phone and see something that is a dangers towards others we can promote it.
The last thing that interested me was the section labeled Building a Standards Wiki. The reason this interested me was because we have to create a wiki with classmates. A standards wiki would be very useful to the classroom because all the notes that the class would have would be all in one place. It would all be organized so that if students are unable to pick up some of the information from class, they can go home and look it up again.
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It is always interesting to see how much communication has changed - you are involved in the changes day by day and undoubtedly, changes will also occur in the future. No matter how we communicate though, it comes back to the same Sender ->Message -> Receiver loop and can easily break down. Nonetheless, to have so many different ways to communicate really doesn't give us an excuse for not doing so! :)
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