Saturday, September 19, 2009

Just Twittering Away (Week 3 Thing 9)

Okay, so I will be honest. This was probably my least favorite activity thus far. I did not have a twitter account until this class. I set one up while downloading everything I needed for the class about three weeks ago. I did not get back on until today and found I was following 20 people and had 3 followers. I did not know any of the 23 people. And most, based on their brief descripions, really didn't want to. I deleted (asked not to follow or be followed) most of them and started over. At first I couldn't find enough and I was struggling to get 20-30 people/organizations to follow. I started thinking about what I was going to be teaching in the next few months and searched those subjects. Soon I ended up with 23 places to follow. I have to admit, I am still not exactly sure how helpful this will be in the future or how often I will be back. In the mean time, I have a week of following before before I can determine exactly how useful I will find this.
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  1. NancyWSeptember 20, 2009 at 5:29 PM

    I can understand your frustration with Twitter. Most people need to give it about 2-3 months and really build your network to start seeing the value. And - it really has to be a 2-way street. Once you start following people, re-tweeting good posts will encourage them to follow you. And - once people start following you, they want to see you share great resources so you add value to their PLN.

    The live stream (everyone’s Tweets) is overwhelming and useless in my opinion. I never go there. But I wanted to show you just a glimpse of the Twitter stream from my PLN – full of resources!

    MCLibrarianHIstory Sources-Teaching & Learning from the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University http://tinyurl.com/m2a96t

    blairteach"The relevancy of all education lies in the education system’s ability to stay relevant." @tomwhitby http://bit.ly/AKLVT
    mtechmanRT @nnorris @d_tremblay You have an awesome website for teacher resources! http://www.resources-teache... - agree!

    doctorjeffSPECIAL POST: MESSENGER's Sep29 Mercury flyby, Live Web2.0 coverage frm Mission Contrl. Hlp sprd wrd 2tchrs! http://bit.ly/3kDn7b #teacher

    cclibrarianFree Fall Felt Craft Project - Felt Pumpkin http://ff.im/8rlg7

    wfryer#21chk Takeaways from the 21st Century Learning @ Hong Kong Conference - http://bit.ly/gE5R0

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  2. Miss ToblerSeptember 21, 2009 at 5:05 PM

    Thanks!

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