Who else is thinks Twitter is meaningless?

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Permalink Reply by Elise Mueller on April 13, 2008 at 12:00pm

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 April 13, 2008 at 12:40pm

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 April 13, 2008 at 2:21pm

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 on April 13, 2008 at 5:30pm

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 April 13, 2008 at 5:47pm

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 indigo196 on April 13, 2008 at 6:04pm

Stu:

I have to think that your post has actually 'improved' the usefulness of Twitter for everyone involved... was that your true intention with this?

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Permalink Reply by Stu on April 21, 2008 at 11:57am

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 Tom Hitt on April 21, 2008 at 3:38pm

I almost dismissed twitter as useless myself, until I "met" a teacher online that swears by it. SO - I follow her, and (thanks!) she follows me. So my take on twitter now is:

1-It takes me 1 minute max to scroll through my follow list and-

2-Sometimes a link goes by that really intrigues me - never would have found it on my own!

SO - feel free to dismiss the "chatter", just like you would at a party. You can only keep one conversation going at a time - that's not the point. If you overhear a comment at a party that interests you, you tend to chime in. Well... that's twitter! If you need to - ignore it! If you're searching for fresh ideas- BONANZA!

TH

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Permalink Reply by Stu on April 23, 2008 at 2:56pm

http://publishing2.com/2007/12/11/why-i-stopped-using-twitter/

Kinda sums up my thoughts...

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Permalink Reply by Elise Mueller on April 23, 2008 at 7:14pm

Thoughts from a classroom...
(inspired by Jessica Hagy and indexed.blogspot.com)

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Permalink Reply by Colette Cassinelli on April 23, 2008 at 10:11pm

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 April 28, 2008 at 5:31pm

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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