Twittervention!
Someone twittered this today (I tried to go back and find who but it was taking too long), and I think it is going around the Twittersphere a bit.
Top 10 Signs You Might Need a “Twittervention.” Found at Logic + Emotion.
1. You type “@” before names in e-mail, blog comments and data fields.
2. Your written communications have become extremely short. 140 characters or less.
3. You change your Twitter avatar at least 3-5 times a week.
4. You don’t use your phone to make calls anymore.
5. Your blog hasn’t been updated in weeks/months.
6. You check your Twitter account daily/hourly to see if you have new “followers”.
7. New followers = euphoria while no new followers sets off mild depression.
8. You tell your friends to just “Twitter it” to you.
9. You experience panic attacks if Twitter is down for more than an hour.
10. You experience “Twitter remorse” due to having a high number of updates, but still can’t stop doing it.
Thankfully I only exhibit one of these symptoms - number 1. I get the euphoria (or slight ego boost shall we say) when I get new followers, but am not yet at the stage that I think about people not following me, if that makes sense. I guess I may not be suffering from any of these other symptoms yet as I don’t rely on Twitter as much as others do. I could understand some of these points for those of whom Twitter is deeply embedded in their daily networking. The network that is Twitter is amazing and enticing. Once could spend as much time as one likes twittering around!
You may notice that some of my posts here are daily digests of my ‘tweets.’ That is due to a cool new function of Twitter Tools that is part of Edublogs. Twitter Tools also lets me send tweets from my sidebar. Very cool.
I’m jessmcculloch on Twitter.
Anyway, I must away. It is past my bedtime!
My Day in the Twittersphere 2008-02-26
- finally stopped after having very full on morning involving helping to sort out some very serious bullying #
- lunch time - vegemite on toast for me. that’s what you get when you haven’t done your groceries… #
- lunch hour nearing a close… have to walk kids back and forth the pool for swimming lessons now #
- going to be testing wiimote whiteboard tomorrow morning! will have to blog about that….stay tuned…. #
- blogging about blogging! http://www.technolote.com #
- just found a whole bunch of comments on my technoLOTE blog that were awaiting moderation! aah! #
- new technoLOTE post: 3 Series on Blogging: A bl-what? http://tinyurl.com/26n8hf #
- new technoLOTE post: Hommage to the Commenter http://tinyurl.com/32pz2l #
- new blog post: My Day in the Twittersphere 2008-02-25 http://tinyurl.com/35c9xa #
- new technoLOTE post: Q2: Why would I use blogs with my students? http://tinyurl.com/23jo5z #
- uploading videos of students ‘rapping’ their name, age and where they live in Chinese. v. funny. #
- feeling sleepy after being up early for swim. was in pool by 7am - early for me! #
- just discovered my colleague @murcha’s ejourneys wiki with some great resources: http://ejourneys.wikispaces.com/ #
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My Day in the Twittersphere 2008-02-25
- new blog post: Those That Make Me Think (The Thinking Blogger Award) http://tinyurl.com/yq4rqj #
- a period of quiet after hectic day of school photos! #
- new blog post: My Day in the Twittersphere 2008-02-24 http://tinyurl.com/2zyh9o #
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My Day in the Twittersphere 2008-02-24
- still haven’t started the housework… #
- @coolcatteacher know what you mean about small town and not fitting in! #
- @coolcatteacher narrowminds and lack of interest in outside world get to me fairly often #
- housework done - woo hoo! #
- husband demanding to be taken out for cake and coffee. must oblige. #
- new technoLOTE post: Welcome to My Classroom #2 http://tinyurl.com/3a5wrq #
- thinking about the week ahead #
- new blog post: My Week in Preview http://tinyurl.com/2ty9ff #
- Just found plugin that lets you drop FlickrCC pics to your post from wordpress dashboard http://tinyurl.com/33ryxp #
- trying to do some planning while watching ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ #
- @ajep know that feeling! ‘mark all as read’ is very tempting sometimes #
- @ajep of course except when it comes to mine you have to read EVERY WORD!
# - why is it so easy to get distracted by silly, fabulous, ridiculou, brain dead TV?! #
- bedtime! up early(er) for exercise. Well, that’s the intention. #
- new blog post: I’m Free(er)! http://tinyurl.com/2uqs98 #
- just found out that my dear mother -in-law is coming to stay for the night! #
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Those That Make Me Think (The Thinking Blogger Award)
It’s always great to know that your blog has not only been noticed, but that someone has actually gained something from it. That’s what powers me on to keep blogging, as I’m sure it does for many other bloggers. It is easy to get into a bit of a rut though and think that no one would want to read what you’ve written - there’s always someone out there who has already written about it, or who on earth would want to know what you’re doing?!
It’s so important to remember that we ALL contribute something and we contribute it in our own way with our own perspective. We don’t all have to analyse everything and write deep and meaningful posts on it all. Just sharing what we are doing is enough. It’s so very easy to feel overwhelmed and inadequate, but I just remind myself that I am a learner too and will always be. So, if I have something that someone can learn from, then I’m rapt. If I’ve written something that makes someone else have a good think, then brilliant!
This all leads to me saying thank you to my treasured colleague, Anne Mirtschin, who has just tagged me with the Thinking Blogger Award. Anne, thank you for reminding me that I am making a contribution, depsite the fact that lately I hadn’t felt like I’d been doing much at all. It has been just the boost I’ve needed.
Anne says she’s learnt a lot from me which is so nice to hear. You should see it - I’m sitting at my desk in the staffroom and here comes Anne around the corner, laptop in hand. “Ah Jess, are you busy now? Have you got a minute to show me how to get that heading on my blog? How do I put this Clustr Map in? Have you seen this?!” Anne and I have lovely little chats over our laptops and her enthusiasm and fascination with all this Web 2.0 is very inspiring too. She is so good at getting the kids involved and when looking at their work can often be heard to say ‘Oh, isn’t that precious?!’
Anne leaves her glasses everywhere and ends up in live webcast conversations without realising what she’s done, but she is an absolutely brilliant teacher who I learn a lot from every week. Thanks for this award Anne. You inspire me too.
So now it is my turn to pass on this little award. Here is how it all works:
1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think.
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme.
3. Let the people you tagged know what you tagged them!
4. Optional: proudly display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ with a link to the post you wrote. (Here is an alternative silver version if gold doesn’t fit your blog).
In addition, there is a note: “Please remember to tag blogs with real merits i.e. relative content and above all - blogs that really get you thinking!”
So, without further ado - 5 Blogs that make me think:
Betchablog - Chris Betcher’s blog is one of the first I subscribed to. His podcast Virtual Staffroom is also one of the first podcasts I listened to when I started getting into all this Web 2.0 madness about 18 months ago. Chris has been teaching and playing around with geeky stuff for years and is totally willing to share what he knows. He’s got great ideas and enthusiasm and I like reading the mix of things he writes about on his blog.
The Open Classroom - Jo McLeay writes really thoughtful blog posts on teaching and using Web 2.0 with her students. She is obviously very experienced and very passionate about what she does and I really value her opinions and thoughts.
Integrating ICT into the MFL Classroom - Joe Dale is incredible! The amount of things this man manages to blog about is great. He has lots of resources and ideas on his blog which always get me thinking about what to try next.
Always Learning - Kim Cofino is an expat teaching living in Bangkok. She’s a 21st Century Literacy Specialist and write really great posts about she uses new tools with her students as well as step-by-step posts on how you can do it yourself. She’s always got me thinking about new projects to start!
Langwitches - Silvia Tolisano’s blog was another one of the very first blogs I started reading. I was totally inspired by the things she was doing and her blog is probably one of the reasons I started my technoLOTE blog.
Thank you to all of these thoughtful thinking bloggers! You all deserve the 
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