Who else is thinks Twitter is meaningless?
I learned about Twitter at NYCATE last year. I have been twittering on and off since. I only follow 20 people selectively but even those 20 are tough to keep up with and rarely offer any great new resources. Or offer too many that aren't even usable by real classrom teachers or is way over their heads (quoting a previous recent discussion here in 2.0) I find this forum the best way to truly learn and be engaged.
I am officailly kicking the Twitter Habit today. Who else has Twitter opinions? Anyone want to join my rebellion?
I am officailly kicking the Twitter Habit today. Who else has Twitter opinions? Anyone want to join my rebellion?
Tags: 2.0, micro-blogging, twitter, web
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Permalink Reply by kolson on -
I can't even begin to describe how twitter has helped me, but I can say this - everyone has a different way of learning and engaging. If you're not into twitter and don't find it valuable, why force it? Use what you can, do what you can and move on. The twitter debates don't serve much of a purpose, in my opinion. If you do use twitter and find it to be a useful tool, follow me (and @ me to let me know who you are) - I look forward to meeting you. I'm @kolson29 - if you think it's a useless waste of time, isn't this conversation just perpetuating that? Again, use what you can, don't get bogged down by everything else.
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Permalink Reply by Julia Osteen on -
When I first learned about Twitter at last year's NECC conference, I didn't get the point. I felt much the same as you express here. When I was reintroduced to it in the fall, I decided I should give it a go. I felt that either I would prove that it was useless or I would glean some benefit from it. Either way, it would help to serve one of my purposes for my school - to keep an eye on cutting edge technologies and determine their usefulness in an educational setting. With the encouragement of people like Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will Richardson, I ventured into the world of Twitter. I received some great advice for using Twitter from Cathy Nelson and began to see benefits emerge. To this point, I have learned about 3 tremendous collaborative projects that my students have participated in and countless learning opportunities for myself as an educator. In addition, I have learned about new web 2.0 tools that I wouldn't have know about otherwise.
I do not follow everyone who follows me and I try to focus in on following people who will provide insights for me. Twitter is not a waste of time for me; it is not meaningless for me either. Twitter is one tool among several that help me to keep "up" on what is going on and what the current burning topics are in the world of education. In this way, it helps me to be more effective in my role at my school.
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Permalink Reply by Elise Mueller on -
Well, I guess I have a difficult time looking at Twitter from anything other than a teacher's perspective. It doesn't seem to have a place for me right now. My kids (my teenager children) won't use it, it doesn't fit the needs of my elementary students, my peers are working on basic integration, and I really don't have much to offer tech specialists or consultants. So...I will probably wait until a tool comes along that lets me centralize all of the stuff I already have out there: delicious, flickr, facebook, meebo, gmail, school email, ning sites, etc. Tech Crunch has an interesting article on data being decentralized and a need for some (me!) to get it all in one place.
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Permalink Reply by Harold Shaw on -
I haven't read the other posts, yet. I have been on twitter for about 3 weeks and find it invaluable in getting information on online sessions that I would otherwise miss. I find it an opportunity to talk and discuss things with a small number of other educators from around the world that I would be "in touch" with otherwise. I get to hear differing opinions, links and ideas that I can actually use in my classroom. So even thought there is a bit of "we think" there, I found Twitter useful.
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Permalink Reply by Lois Cox on -
I have actually gotten a lot from Twitter. Many posts are very meaningless and I try not to post those. But I have gotten may new resources and try to share new ones as I find them. I don't have the time to Twitter very much but am always pleased with results when I do.
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Permalink Reply by Mindelei Wuori on -
I wish I could remember who tweeted about this blog... I'm new to Twitter and have discovered so many excellent sources. Thanks for putting up the controversial blog, I've found a lot more people to follow this way. For me, I'm mostly a consumer at this point - but I still try to tweet a bit anyhow. As I find interesting things (and have the time) I blog about them and make note of that on twitter too. Feel free to add me: @mindelei You're welcome to check out my blogs as well, I've had only a bit of feedback thus far and am in the learning process after all. http://mindelei.edublogs.org/ or http://mindelei.blogspot.com/.
It's true: twitter may not be the right thing for you. We all have different needs. Although I do vote for trying to follow some of the more prolific tweeters...you may be surprised.
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Permalink Reply by Ian Nixon on
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I do not use twitter mainly because it does not fit into my current personal professional learning network; however, I think it can be a useful tool for those who decide to keep this tool on their tool belt as a means of communicating. I see this as just a means to a way and for some people it may work, more so than for others, but I would not want to encourage or stifle creativity or creative use.
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Permalink Reply by Stu on -
Me? Instigate? Never! (-:
It wasn't my true intention, I figured that I would get people fired up. The last thing I will leave this discussion with is this...
Twitter isn't "Useless". It is however cumbersome for most "non-techie" teachers to find useful. And I am an Advocate for the "Non Techie" Teacher.
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Permalink Reply by Elise Mueller on
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Thoughts from a classroom...
(inspired by Jessica Hagy and indexed.blogspot.com)
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Permalink Reply by Colette Cassinelli on -
In the vast blogosphere it can be difficult to choose whom to include in your blogroll. I will often subscribe to a new blogger if I see their tweet or if someone mentions it @yourname. I also RSS my twitter feed and briefly scan it when I’ve been away for a long time.
How did I use twitter today? I discovered a new blog, I posted responses on two other blogs, I asked a question and receive 5 responses and I decided to follow someone new. It was a good twitter day.
Follow me: http://twitter.com/ccassinelli
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Permalink Reply by Elise Mueller on
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Tech Crunch reviewed a site that might work for those of us interested in resources but without time to spend sifting through twitter messages. According to Tech Crunch it is "...a service that holds some promise. It aggregates URLs linked in Twitter messages and puts them on the home page based on overall popularity, calculated simply by determining the number of times the URL was in a Twitter message. Like TechMeme, the more people who link to an item the higher it appears. As time goes on, the story deteriorates and drops in the rankings." Haven't tried it yet but it is on my "to do" list.
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