Final Tweet!!

After all of the tweets, and all of the re-tweets that I have made this Spring quarter I have learned many different things about blogging communities. I vividly remember that when I started this project of using twitter, and blogging about my experience I was rather hesitant, and I really didn't think that I would gain anything from this assigned project.

            I now realize that what I have gained from this experience is that social communities like twitter offer much more to the individual than first meets the eye. After hours of exploring twitter, and utilizing all of its features I have come to find that it can, and is being used as a teaching tool which affords students and instructors the opportunity to engage on a more in depth level with learning. I believe that what really helped me to see all of the practical uses of twitter was the final paper that I just turned into drop box. The statistics and the experiments with social media cemented that there is a practical use for sites like twitter.

While I don't see myself using twitter in the future, I can definitely see myself using it if it was made mandatory by an instructor as a tool for learning. The only draw back that I could identify with twitter being used for educational purposes is that the individual can only tweet one-hundred and forty words at a time. All and all this was an experience that introduced me to social media outlets, and it taught me that there is always more than meets the eye when it comes to expectations.