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I AM A SMARTER WORKER --- 1.2.4

I truly feel a smarter worker. This is because I have learnt that social media can actually be used by teachers and educators to help them guide the learning process and also to help them get more knowledge about their work from a large number of like minded educators out there. I have been using some social media tools like Facebook, Twitter, etc. but never did I think that they were that useful to me as an educator. I now see the benefit. I also see that you can use #hashtags, make direct messages, re-tweet etc using twitter. Google plus is having, according to me, quite a number of features which I still need to burrow into and probably see how to work out but it won't take long before I have mastered it. The  interface in the video tutorial looks very different from the one on my browser but I can still pick up some useful ideas. Facebook is something I have spent some time on but after reading about it through one of the links, I see there is still some bit to learn.

 Concerning steps to be taken next: I think I should complete the assignment in 1.2.3 first because through it I will become better at using these social network tools. I have chosen to use twitter and google plus; I had wanted to use facebook but I seem to have very many followers there and I may fail to single out the feeds coming from the educators I like or I am following. I know there is a way to filter these out and if I figure that out soon enough, I could probably use facebook anyway. I still do not know much about skype, it seems to also consume much of my airtime; it almost drained out my internet bundle - few megabytes left now!

 One other thing, I know this was not so much among the things I was supposed to reflect but I seem to be really getting good at blogging. I can now add some links in the blog. Awesome!

 EDWARD

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