Bumping Into People
Hello world! After a forced break from writing here (too much stuff going on, I will refrain from boring you with it) I am finally feeling as though I have a little bit of not-so-rushed time to sit and contribute. For my first return post I have a face to face meeting to share with you!
Last Monday I went to the SLAV (School Libraries Association of Victoria) Web 2.0 Conference and had the pleasure of hearing Will Richardson speak. He spoke so very well and was inspiring, and it was just great to see him in person after seeing his name in so many places and reading his blog from time to time. I recorded his session with my iPod voice recorder, but I’m not sure how it will go as a podcast as it’s a bit quiet. I’ll get to that and let you know.
The highlight of the day, though, was meeting some fellow Aussie educators with whom I have been in contact with in the edublogosphere for a while now! I’ve been reading Jo McLeay’s blog for ages and we’ve had several chats online over Twitter or Skype. It was fabulous meeting Jo. She came up to me and gave me a great big hug - it was like meeting an old friend even though we’ve never met before! Here we are:
I was actually saying something to my esteemed colleague Anne at the time. I don’t normally make a habit of smiling like that! 
I also met John Pearce who runs Salty Solutions Consultancy, and blogs over at My Other Blog. He’s also part of the Oz/NZ Educators network. Here is a quick snap of me, John and Anne.
John and Gary Bass (who I met at the conference and recognised as a teacher from my school years ago!) have just written a book about Web 2.0 tools called Technology Toolkit - An Introduction to Web 2.0. Here’s Jo and John checking out Jo’s chapter in it!
So the best part of my day by far was meeting these people and a couple of others. It really felt like we (myself and Anne) were meeting up with old friends, as we have been in touch with these people for a while now as part of our personal learning networks, which are made up of our blogs, our wikis, our Twitter conversations, our social bookmarking which all facilitates our passion for learning and sharing!
Twitter Abstinence Syndrome
Found this cartoon via a link from Langwitches. LOL.
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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