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My first impressions of the site was it was basically like a character-counted version of Facebook. I also went on to think it was more for people to share their life stories and every minute happenings such as "going out to take the dog for the walk" or "in the bathroom, having problems". I also thought the only real people to follow were celebrities or professional athletes, which I had no interest in either.
Now that time has passed and I have taken some time to browse through Twitter and follow some peers and educators we had present in our I4Ed class, I have split my Twitter mindset into three categories: professional, personal, and recreational. Professional is the category where past and present University Prof's are, as well as teachers, administrators, and even certain websites (ie education.com). Personal covers peers, friends, and even coworkers. Any companies, groups, and athletes I follow would go under recreational. Even thought they are not categorized when I go onto Twitter, as I read through the new tweets I'm always thinking "professional...professional...personal...recreational...professional" and visualizing each going into their 'folder'.
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LOL excellent points Mr. M!
ReplyDeleteI would like to point out the 'lists' feature of twitter, which allows you to group people into categories of your choice. You may like this feature for your professional, personal and recreational categories. Happy Tweeting!
Hashtags are an easy way to make things searchable. If you click one, it'll take you to a page with all the tweets containing it. There are a lot of education and subject area hashtags we can check out to see what like-minded people are tweeting.
ReplyDeleteI am in line with your thoughts here Mr. T! Before this class I pretty well said I would never join Twitter. But now that I have (and since writing my own post about Twitter) I a, definitely starting to see the benefits! I used to think just what you did; just another place for people to tell us what they are doing throughout the day. But now that I have explored, I can see why people like it, especially educators! There are so many resources you can find, on any topic! Having said that, tweeting is another story for me. I will admit I have only tweeted once. I need to commit more to that!
ReplyDeleteI joined Twitter in the first semester of Ed last year because Mike made us in his ICT class. Since then I have come to really love it. I also mentally file tweets in categories. Most of those I follow would be filed under "professional" and I certainly don't follow any celebs (don't have time or patience for them). I have also become more accustomed to tweeting resources or links to articles or blog postings I like, but I'm still not very consistent with that.
ReplyDeleteHashtags are, as I see them, a way to label your tweet, a kind of filing system. For instance, if you tweet "Having a blast studying" you could hashtag it with #sarcasm, so your followers know that you really aren't enjoying studying. Some people over hashtag their tweets though #SoAnnoying!!
I always just assumed it was a newer facebook to, and also thought that it was going to have a lot of 'Dear Diary' moments. However, after using it I found that it was one massive teacher's resource kit, all bundled up within 140 characters!
ReplyDeleteI think hashtags often 'make' the tweet. I especially love sarcastic hashtags. I've heard of the 'list' feature on Twitter but haven't utilized it. It seems as though it would make things more organized but I haven't figured it out yet.
ReplyDeleteSounds like I am in the same boat as you Steve. I am wondering why it took me soo long to join twitter. I'm checking almost as much as facebook now...so I guess you could say I'm a little addicted. I have also explored many other educators' twitter pages which have been helpful with blog posts.
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