Thread:Requiring microblog post (1)

I'm wondering about the requirement in step 2 of the activity to post a comment to twitter or identi.ca. A couple thoughts:


 * 1) I'm not sure requiring participants to post is what you intend: "You are required to post...." I suggest deleting "You are required to" and begin the sentence with "Post...."


 * 1) Why twitter or identi.ca? Will this be something that's discussed earlier? Is it integral to the learning environment? Although I'm somewhat familiar with what these technologies do, I don't have an account with either (which I'm guessing I would need to post) and I'd guess that the great majority of my educator friends also do not have an account. Personally speaking, if I came upon this step in a tutorial, I would skip it. How do we see this content being implemented? For example, if this course will be implemented along with membership in an LMS, then having participants post to the LMS discussion formum might be preferable. Just some thoughts for consideration.

Alison