Blog Post 12

Share the Knowledge

Being it is the end of the semester, you have had the chance to work with several different tools in EDM310. For this weeks blog assignment choose a tool you would like to teach someone to use. Tell us why you chose that tool, who you taught, and about the teaching experience. (Did they find it useful, catch on easily..etc)



I chose two tools to teach, Gmail and Twitter. My boyfriend Jeffry Etheridge was my student. I chose Gmail to teach him for several reasons: he only uses his school email account and will soon be graduating, he does not have Microsoft Office on his computer and is constantly needing to borrow mine, and he is always partaking in group projects. Gmail will allow him to have an email after graduation. Google Documents allows him to type papers, spreadsheets, and make presentations (without needing my computer). I also taught him how you can share your work and allow others to edit it, which is perfect for group work. He caught on fairly easily. I believe the main problem was that some of the tools in Google Docs are a little different than Word, so that is still taking some time to get use to.

I think he has been the most thankful for me introducing Twitter. We set him up an account, wrote a bio, changed his background, added a picture, then began following. He started off following people for entertainment just to get the hang of the tweeting, retweeting, replying, ..etc. He has since realized how wonderful it is to follow people in your chosen profession. He is a Chemical Engineer major, and has some of the coolest stuff to show each day that was posted to Twitter. He has also discovered how easy it is to tweet a problem or question and to quickly be flooded with responses. Skype is our next project!