Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Thing 2: Online Communities & Personal Learning Networks

 

Option 3: Veteran Tweeters

While in no way do I consider myself a veteran tweeter, I chose this option because I've had a twitter account for several years, but apparently have not really used it to it's full advantage!
I do get ideas for the classroom from Twitter all the time, but I don't participate in twitter chats or tweet my own stuff very often. I did not know you could create a list in twitter (like this one by Polly Alida-Farrington).

I used the advanced search feature and search for "common core" and #tlchat and got some great results.

I was confused by a line in Cool Tools Blog post that read "follow the hashtag #tlchat." Can you follow hashtags like you can users? I'm still not sure how to do that.

I LOVE the #tlchat hashtag. I have found so many new people to follow. I want to spend some time creating lists. Because I use my account primarily for work, I need to come up some relevant categories for my lists. I think I will keep library specific tweets on one list, ed tech on another, and publishers on another.

I am excited to share all the new things I learned about Twitter with my students and co-workers. I think I may feature some of this at my presentation during this months faculty meeting.

I still think I have a lot to learn about twitter and am looking forward to trying out some new things. Thanks to the blog post by Allison Kowalski, I have just started experimenting with TweetDeck.





Completely unrelated side note.

During this weeks assignment I came across this twitter war between a comedian and a salsa company. It turned out to be a prank in the end, but it was the most fun I've had reading tweets EVER.