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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My Day in the Twittersphere 2008-02-23
- being thrown out of dim dim meeting. maybe it was something i said?! #
- @mjmontagne no problem. love trying something new! hopefully it works with the parents #
- playing with twitter tools in edublogs. don’t think it’s saving my options tho! #
- adding widgets to my blog #
- tweeting from my blog sidebar #
- new post: My Tweets for Today:
figuirng out twitterfeed and OpenID #
deciding which proje.. http://tinyurl.com/2povyk # - getting motivated to do the housework #
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My Tweets for Today
- figuirng out twitterfeed and OpenID #
- deciding which projects to let go of to simplify my life a bit #
- counting the days till the lease on this laptop is up!!! #
- waching friday night crime shows on ABC and checking out new features on edublogs #
- just became a paid edublogs supporter to get feedburner and twitter tools #
- OMG where is this year going?! #
- @murcha hi! did you get note trish and I left for you? #
- @have to get back here more. have to remove a few projects from list of things to do ! #
- @want to get eplanks really up and going #
- @murcha have just started following rash kath #
- @murcha did you tag me for that meme afterall? #
- @theother66 have just started playing with Terraminds because I have been reading your tweets. thanks ! #
- @dswaters ah, yes, i see you are the one to be thanked! terraminds is great. #
- @murcha thanks for the comment on my post. appreciated that #
- oh god, am up. here comes saturday! husband demanding hotcakes for brekky. off to maccas. #
- new Friday Vox Pop: VP4: What is the most important thing you learn how to do at.. http://tinyurl.com/yoo5mr #
- new technoChinese po What’s In A Name?: In these lessons you will learn h.. http://tinyurl.com/243mx8 #
- Rise of Reflection P T-weet T-weet T-wooo: Oh, I’m trying to get back int.. http://tinyurl.com/348rwt #
- new technoLOTE post: A Weeks’ Worth of Food Around the World http://tinyurl.com/2gyzt5 #
- @mjmontagne have just logged in to dim dim #
- @mjmontagne booted out again. what is the meeting room name? #
- checking out http://mytweetmap.com #
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Oh, I’m trying to get back into this crazy Twitter world. I’ve been out of it for a few weeks - overwhelmed with start of school year and having too much on my plate. Sorting that out now, and spending my Friday night learning about some more cool things, mostly to do with Twitter. Well, I had heard of some of these things before, but never got around to trying them out. Tonight was the night!First, using Twitter Karma I checked out who was following me and followed a few of those people back. You can of course, do this on your Twitter page, but Twitter Karma puts people into groups of ‘Friends’, ‘Followers,’ ‘Mutual Friends,’ making it really easy to see who is in what group.
Then I checked out Twitter Feed and added my blog feeds so that each new blog post that I write generates a tweet to let my Twitter network know of my news posts. I was able to add the RSS feeds for the four blogs I work with so I was happy about that. (Those four blogs are this one, technoLOTE, technoChinese and Friday Vox Pop).
After that I checked out Tweet Scan and Terraminds (thanks to @dswaters and @theother66 tweeting about it). The idea of these apps is that you put in your key search terms and they scan tweets for them, showing you who is tweeting about the things you are interested in. Very handy for finding new people to follow and following conversations all around the world. I added the RSS feeds for these terms into my reader.
Other applications I know about are:
Twit Pic - which allows you to share photos on Twitter. I haven’t tried this one out yet but will. Need to sleep first.
Twitter Vision - shows you a world map and random tweets from everywhere as they are happening. I read a blog post somewhere (can’t remember now) of a teacher who used Twitter Vision with her class and got them to tally how many tweets were in English and how many in a foreign language. Being a language teacher, I think that’s a great idea and I’m going to try it with a few of my classes.
Flickr Vision - similar to Twitter Vision, but showing photos from Flickr instead. I think these two pages are fantastic - live, authentic information from all around the world.
Ok, bed now!
Image: Twitter / jessmcculloch via kwout
