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Friday, September 21, 2012
Sep. 21st, 2012 11:00 pmIn class today we were discussing Gladwell’s article about social media and revolution. He published it in October of 2010 before the Arab Spring and was proven wrong. I made my students research Egyptian Revolution of 2011, Tunisia, Libya, Iranian Green Revolution and Occupation Wall Street and the role of social media. They did a good job researching. One girl even did a Powerpoint presentation with a movie trailer for Iranian Green revolution. But they didn’t look up where these countries were on the map. I had to draw Africa on the board.
So, since we were talking a social media, I did a poll in one of my classes. All students were on Facebook, half had Twitter and absolutely every since one of them had a smartphone with internet access.
Rosemary, my carpool person, and I actually left the campus earlier today but once I got to Brooklyn, the stupid F train decided to break down on the station where I was waiting so I was waiting the extra 20 minutes. Good thing I could take the R train right there, after I got fed up with waiting and the absolute lack of the information about why one train was stuck in the station.
And to top it off the grocery store near the train had no bananas. It was that kind of day. At least the bank was open late on Fridays so I still got there on time. And I did work out the exercise bike which helped with the UPS frustration – they still haven’t tried to deliver the card.
So, since we were talking a social media, I did a poll in one of my classes. All students were on Facebook, half had Twitter and absolutely every since one of them had a smartphone with internet access.
Rosemary, my carpool person, and I actually left the campus earlier today but once I got to Brooklyn, the stupid F train decided to break down on the station where I was waiting so I was waiting the extra 20 minutes. Good thing I could take the R train right there, after I got fed up with waiting and the absolute lack of the information about why one train was stuck in the station.
And to top it off the grocery store near the train had no bananas. It was that kind of day. At least the bank was open late on Fridays so I still got there on time. And I did work out the exercise bike which helped with the UPS frustration – they still haven’t tried to deliver the card.