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a. How has Twitter (micro-blogging) enhanced your learning of EIR ? 

Compare this with your blogging experience using Blogspot.

The Twitter (micro-blogging) has helped me to get connected with my fellow classmates and interact with one another on EIR related topics or even other social topics. With Twitter, i am able to get in touch with my classmates and exchange thoughts and opinions on our related EIR topics. Even though we are unable to get in touch through email or through other sources, Twitter has helped me in learning EIR effectively and efficiently. It has enhanced my knowledge of EIR along the way through sharing of opinions and asking of question on the Twitter. It made learning more fun.

Comparing the Twitter experience with my blogging experience, blogging  has also helped me in getting more information and sharing of information as well as sharing thoughts on topics.  Blogging also provides much more information unlike Twitter as users can only tweet a limit of 140 characters at a time. However, Twitter's learning experience is much more effecient as we are able to Tweet and receive Tweet updates whenever and wherever we are. With Twitter's SMS client, we can tweet when we are in the toilet or even when we are eating etc. This helps to share information much more quickly. For example; i might ask a question and tweet " What are the pros and cons of social networking?". I might be able to get replies instantly and from there expand the information from different user views and different links to resources shared by other users.

On the other hand, the blogging experience is a much better way to share more vast information. More in detailed description on certain topic. Able to be linked to other blogs which might provide useful information for the research.

b. How can you use Twitter and Blogspot for research purposes ?

We can use Twitter for research purposes by Tweeting question regarding on our topic research. I can also search for topics in twitter based in my research topic and follow the user.Hence, i would be able to get updates on my related topics is any updates was added by the user. With Twitter, i could also join a group and discuss on my related search topic and get views from other users as well as other helpful resource links provided by them which could help me on my research.

And as for Blogspot, i could use it to retrieve personal/professional information by individuals who might be a major in the particular research topic i am doing and thus, i could get professional advice and tips and even relevant information on my topic to help me improve on my research.