Fullsaila4's List: Klaudio - Writing/Creative

• issue of modern communication skills stands on the legs of tweets’ usage of abbreviations and jargon in place of correct grammar and syntax.

   

• Mastery of prose is made more difficult by students’ daily absorption in a language of “lol”s and “c u soon”s.

   
• modern society’s lexicon.
• In 2011, the University of Iowa’s Tippie School of Management even offered a full scholarship to their MBA program to one student who wowed them in 140 characters or less.
• has there ever been more reading material in society?

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• less than a decade
• build large, engaged communities, raise awareness and drive footfall.
• consumers to make smarter decisions, engage with brands and demand better customer service.
• many schools and universities eager to adopt the use of these tools in the classroom.
• The best practices for the use of social media are as relevant in education as they are in business or anywhere else – do it properly, or don’t do it at all.

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• five specific ways in which the use of social media could have a good impact on how people communicate.
• would increase the users’ awareness of mistakes and help them prevent them. It would also differentiate the writers, highlight short writing, remind users that change is constant
• would

  create new words and meanings.
• South by Southwest (SXSW) conferences.
• March 10th
• SXSW is a festival taking place every year in Austin, Texas (USA), focusing on music, films and emerging technologies.
• can help prevent mistakes
• knowing that these contents are going to spread quickly and reach a high number of people, it would encourage proofreading users’ posts.
• increase the popularity of short writing, implying clarity and quality of the delivered message.
• many recent neologisms were originated on social media
• “unfriend”, “googled”, “like” or “tweeted” are just some of the examples.

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• platforms for catching mistakes.
• “Twitter has become the arbiter of language for us,” he said. “If we have a misspelling, people will let us know.”
• Having an audience,
• going to reach thousands of people can be a good incentive to proofread your social media posts
• “The growth of blogs, Twitter and Facebook considered in tandem with Tumblr and other social softwares that enable posting and tagging accounts creates an environment of continuous partial production.”
• into a full production — a story, a project, an interactive — that offers the analysis and context you can’t find in a 140-character tweet
• Vine videos
• value of short storytelling
• Twitter’s 140-character limit
• writing short and well isn’t easy.

• “Just as Socrates was concerned that the invention of writing would make people forgetful, people today are worried about the degree to which we are permanently shaped by digital technologies.”

   
• “If a word is persuasive enough, and if your usage is provocative enough and feels real enough, you can make a word mean what you want it to mean.”
• neologisms

  have originated through social media.
• “instagrammed”

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• 80 percent of teen Internet users frequenting social media sites
• Twitter that impose a character limit force users to condense their thoughts.
• whole new language of abbreviations.
• LOL is now used to add a joking or lighthearted inflection to messages almost like a type of punctuation.
• It doesn’t always indicate  literal laughter.
• we reach hundreds or thousands of people with a single post.

• Rather than eroding our writing skills, this has sharpened them. Blogging, in particular, is a powerful way for people to improve their writing.
• Another side effect of Twitter’s text limit is the ability to get to the point faster.
• Blogging has contributed to this as well, since most successful bloggers know they only have a few seconds to draw a reader in before he clicks away. Short punchy sentences and the active voice are taking over as the most popular way to communicate in writing.

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• How are teachers using social media to improve students writing?
• Lessons about sharing – Students can share their writing on social media, blogs and websites. This can encourage students since they know their efforts may be public.
• Encouraging creativity – Teachers can use social media to encourage creativity and the thought process. The thought process is very important in writing. Students can also find ideas through social media.
• • Expressing thoughts – Social media allows students to express their thoughts like never before. Teachers are finding that students can use the same process in writing in school.

• How can students and teachers balance social media and school?
• Encourage individuality – Social media is a great place to express yourself. Teachers can encourage students to let their individuality come through in their writing.
• • Enhance communication – Good writing skills can be motivation to enhance communication on social media as well as in the classroom.
• Monitoring usage – Teachers do not need to be scared of social media in the classroom. Monitoring the usage of students is paramount to benefiting from it.

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• The five major areas students felt a deficiency in were concentration, cursive writing, spelling, reading a printed map, and grammar, respectively.
• "We have such a huge number of [people who] don't read at all," Rhoads said. "They would prefer their social media. That worries me."
• "Facebook, Twitter - these are tools," she said. "Regardless of where social media expands, you must always know how to speak and write in complete sentences."

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• a new blog is created somewhere in the world every half a second.
• A lot of people read blogs more than once daily.