Jun
18
Summer of New 2.0 #2 – Twitter
June 18, 2008 | Tagged IM, twitter, web 2.0 | Leave a Comment
Ok, I’m a little late this week with my new 2.0 (when I say new I mean new for me, of course) but I figured it worth posting late to enjoy Father’s Day weekend (and it was 
). My new for this week was Twitter, basically an on-line instant messaging service,though you can use your phone with Twitter as well. Getting started was easy enough but then I was kind of hit with a “what now?” moment. One of my first thoughts was who really wants to read about my daily goings-on (had I done this more last week it would have read updating computers…updating computers again…still updating computers…etc…) Perhaps part of the problem I’ve encountered is that Twitter, being a social networking tool, required a level of socializing and I just don’t know that many people using the service. Even so, I’m still a little stumped as to a classroom application. Perhaps this becomes more useful when actually away from school as a way to communicate with students/parents about goings-on school-wise (or between students working on assignments). This may also streamline efforts to work collaboratively between different classrooms and schools.
One other question I have…I came across some folks who are “following” well over 100 conversations/people. How do you keep up/keep track of all these different strands? I know RSS is a possibility, but how do you keep it from becoming somewhat unwieldy? So, if you have an answer for me on this, or other ideas for educational purposes, feel free to comment or twitter me-username azrunner.
