GenSpeak Tools
This session looks at the phenomenon of instant messaging and micro blogging in the context of collabrative educational and professional networks.
This session will attract teachers wanting to connect with their Gen Y students using their tools to connect with your lessons. The session will discuss the phenomenon of instant messaging not dissimilar to SMS but more ‘micro- blogging’ in the context of collaborative educational and professional networks across VET.
Session resources
Resources
This, That, and the Other - Mark Pesce, (2008), "the human network: What happens after we are all connect"
Twitter Life Cycle, Alan Levine (cogdog), 2008
| Generation | Born | Age |
| Boomers | 1946–1964 | 38 – 56 |
| Generation X | 1965–1981 | 21 – 37 |
| Generation Y | 1982–2000 | 2 – 20 |
| Generation Z | 2001+ | < 2 |
Source - Understanding Gen Y
Instant messaging
wikipedia entry for Instant messaging & messengers
Other resources
Click here to check TAFE NSW library catalogue for resources on Instant messaging. If a book you would like to borrow is not at your local college, ask library staff to do an interlibrary loan for you.
TAFENSW libraries subscribe to a number of periodical databases which provide you with full text articles available to you online. One example is the suite of EBSCOhost databases. Click here to link to articles from EBSCOhost databases on wikis. If you wish to find out more about how to set up a RSS feed for a topic of your choice from one of the available databases please contact library staff at your college library.
Micro-blogging
wikipedia entry for Micro-blogging
wikipedia entry for Thumbcast
- Twitter - What are you doing? in 140 chars or less!!
- Yammer - Enterprise Microblogging
- Twitter Search
- identi.ca
- Pownce
- Tumblelog
