Comparison between Twitter and Pownce

At first, I kept using Twitter because it is easier and more intimate for me to use. I thought it would be useful if I use it in a classroom. However, Twitter has one problem of controling users. In Pownce, I have more detailed setting about privacy, where we can choose to whom we show our contents. About privacy issue, I think, pownce is better. Moreover, about sending files, pownce is more convenient. We can send a lot of files, such as text files and multimedia. If we pay $20 a year, we can send much bigger files. In Twitter, we can just introduce some website. By just writing some comments and enjoying it, I prefer twitter. Yet, when thinking of usage in a classroom, pownce is better because we can control privacy and send any kind of files.

Micro-blogging in Education

I found an article about usage of micro-blogging in education in this website http://teachingall.blogspot.com/2008/07/microblogging.html. When starting twitter, I had no idea of how to apply it to classroom. However, after reading this article, I could imagine the usage in a classroom exactly. My students are high school students. They really like to send message on a cell phone. If I take the twitter in the classroom, they will definitely enjoy it. In English class, having students write one sentence about the reading content is interesting. I guess they will try to write it because they just write one sentence. Using the micro-blogging in a classroom is also helpful because their parents can know what their children are doing now. Actually when children's age are in puberty, parents don't and can't know what their children think. People sometimes can't be bothered to write a lot, but micro-brogging can motivate even lazy people to write something. Just one sentence. It is the key.