Jul 11 2008
Do Crayons Qualify as Social Media?
Liz Strauss asked, Do Crayons Qualify as Social Media? . Absolutely-fricken-YES! If social media are the tools and affordances that allow us to communicate, interact, create, converse and invent with each other, then the world is full of social media. It was not born with Web 2.0 (whatever the heck that really is). Our tools transcend their initial uses, and more importantly, our practices need to transcend across our contexts!
Absolutely-fricken-YES!
I like so totally agree … and for adults in workplaces, exactly why do “they” not make whiteboard markers feel, and smell and act more like crayons ? Enquiring minds want to know … …
Jon, you remind me of the role of the kinesthetic, which we so often forget.
Me, I hate chalk on a chalkboard. I love the flow of gel pens. I love the smell of crayons and hate the smell of dry erase markers. Oh, smell, that is not kinesthetic. What is the word for the smell side of things?