Tech Talk Tuesday: Twitter Revisited

A follow up session to the twitter discussion of last week, was the nature of this week’s Tech Talk Tuesday. Participants contributed to the conversations, sharing their twitter accounts to demonstrate a number of features and uses of twitter. The chat, as always, proved to be of great value.

The icebreaker: How I feel today in a colour/shape!

From the chat:-

3D Map of the Titanic site for class virtual visits
http://penbentley.globalteacher.org.au/
Find people on twitter with common interests from this site
Twitter for Teachers
Twitter in the Classroom
ultranet hashtags got us together with heaps of local educators
twitter has led me to many excellent professional development webinars and live streams
The best part of the Ultranet hiccup yesterday was the #ultranet as it meant I got to find out a whole lot more local tweeps
i love watching TV with Twitter – watching shows that people on Twitter are commenting on at the same time
I have a bit of a pet peeve though with people who use multiple hashtags in a twee
You can edit the hastags in TweetDeck
when we had an earthquake in Melbourne we were able to pinpoint the epicentre through tweets before it was even on the news
I set up a twitter feed for #fashion for my VET Fashion students
and a back channel of discussions like when at conferences
there is a TV show called question and answer, they put tweets at the bottom of the screen during the program
what is the difference between @ and # when you want to do a search – @ is for people # is for searching eg @penpal will get you. #edchat links lots of people by subject
tell about tweetshrink too 🙂
i have two vanity columns! 🙂
seesmic is another good one similar to tweetdeck but I still prefer tweetdeck
Tweetdeck is nice to sync between the iPhone and computer
hashtags are only effective if everyone uses the same hashtag for a topic or event–doesn’t always happen
twapperkeeper – http://www.twapperkeeper.com/hashtag/ticer2010
there have been some people using group follows where you can follow everyone in the group with one click-I think Moodle Mayhem did that. Ever wish you could follow all the Moodle Mayhem members who have twitter accounts? Click on this link. Using tweeple
Topify can help you figure out who to follow back See Chris Betcher’s blog post on topify
Twitterblast
Blastfollow http://www.blastfollow.com/ What Is BlastFollow?
Last week’s recording on Twitter Share ‘n Tell
John Pearce’s shared twitter resources
anyone else discovered historious?
One of my Webslides is here http://slides.diigo.com/list/mrpbps/science4kids?mode=full&sid=34041
Just in Twilk takes your Twitter followers’ profile photos and puts them on your Twitter background. http://twilk.com/
http://www.iear.org/
Great post by Shamblesguru with list of so much, twitter.