Mod 6 : Plurk Vs Twitter

I prefer “ Plurk” to “ Twitter” in terms that plurk provides more visual services. I can use emotion icon and color verbs to emphasize my feeling. This visual things make me fun doing that and feel like using it more. Besides, I can share video, pictures with people. And also, there is karma service that twitter doesn’t have. The more active my network is, the higher points of karma I can get. With the higher karma score, my influence with Plurk also can be higher. .

When it comes to Twitter, it looks easy to use. I couldn't find much fun of using it though. It can be said more functional than good looking. But, one thing that l like about Twitter is I can see what people are doing at once. Because people’s message are arranged neatly in one page. On plurk, I need to scroll next to see the messages of all of people. This merit enables it to be used for academic purpose. As an example, it can be used to compare each of students' thought on certain topic.

Plurk has a great potential for better technology, in terms of a relatively new service made after twitter. Even now this is doing very good though.

Mod 6: Microbloggin in Education "Twitter breaks down barriers in the classroom"

This post( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080319-twitter-breaks-down-barriers-in-the-classroom.html) introduces lots of benefit of using microblogging and also a little of weakness such as technology problem(not perfect yet, still in progress).

Among many benefits this post says, I want to stress that this work as a medium to promote interaction and strong connection between students and teachers. And also, microblogging can work well for good connection between material and the “real world’. Through micorblogging, students and teachers can get to know better or get closer to one to another and also, students, out of class, can share interesting ideas that suddenly occur to them, or come up related to the material from classtime. Not to mention, it will encourage more dynamic classroom atmosphere, and arouse more respectful and productive interaction between teachers and students by turning the classroom into a community.