Welcome from NECC2009 ! As I glance around the lobby, look inside the Starbucks, in the conference rooms, and outside the front glass – Twitter mania is alive and well. Some people are sharing news about the weather. Other folks are responding to session leaders. Another conference participant is making sure she follows the guru she just heard. Data is flying everywhere, and yet many folks in education are still asking the question – Why in the world would I twitter?
Each day leading up to my sessions on Wednesday July 1, 2009 at 9:30a.m. and 10:30a.m. I’m going to build “twittership” among several different groups who will provide input, feedback, links, videos, and comments to the very question of why educators need to twitter as this new social media phenomenon serves as a key lever for formative learning on an array of topics relative to educators, students, and parents in the educational community of twitter space. Look for my blog updates at the NECC ning site here: http://www.neccning.org/
In an attempt to ready everyone for the twitter sessions on Wednesday, David Edwards https://twitter.com/davencvps67 , the Chief Marketing and Professional Learning Officer of the North Carolina Virtual Public School http://www.ncvps.org/ has agreed to tweet the sessions live from https://twitter.com/ncvps .
All you will need to do if you are in session and/or outside the session on Wednesday is follow www.twitter.com/ncpvs or follow the hashtag #ncvps on Twitter. So from www.twitter.com or from any Twitter app, simply search for #ncvps. Add #ncvps to the end of your tweets to be included in the conversation. You can also search #ncvps while the conversation is going on to follow instant updates to five twitter questions that will be asked of all participants.
Also, if you are conference participant, you’ll be able to access the roundtable discussion notes on Wednesday on the conference wiki here:
http://oli2009.wikispaces.com/ ; however, we will also prepare a summary here http://www.thevlc.org/ in case you are out of town and could not attend this particular roundtable discussion.
The session on Wednesday will begin with a five minute intro of my moderators’ bio http://www.ncvps.org/directory/bios/index.html as well as a few remarks about my own journey with twitter and what value I try to provide for my followers: https://twitter.com/bsetser.
Next, I will introduce the roundtable members and Dave Edwards will tweet their info and the one key learning they hope to gain from the session. I will then facilitate the discussion with five key questions that I will share live on Wednesday. As we all examine the provocative disruption of www.twitter.com in the educational setting, we will also go outside the ballroom to participants around the nation and around the world for their input on the key question of why in the world would I twitter in education?
Each day leading up to my sessions on Wednesday July 1, 2009 at 9:30a.m. and 10:30a.m. I’m going to build “twittership” among several different groups who will provide input, feedback, links, videos, and comments to the very question of why educators need to twitter as this new social media phenomenon serves as a key lever for formative learning on an array of topics relative to educators, students, and parents in the educational community of twitter space. Look for my blog updates at the NECC ning site here: http://www.neccning.org/
In an attempt to ready everyone for the twitter sessions on Wednesday, David Edwards https://twitter.com/davencvps67 , the Chief Marketing and Professional Learning Officer of the North Carolina Virtual Public School http://www.ncvps.org/ has agreed to tweet the sessions live from https://twitter.com/ncvps .
All you will need to do if you are in session and/or outside the session on Wednesday is follow www.twitter.com/ncpvs or follow the hashtag #ncvps on Twitter. So from www.twitter.com or from any Twitter app, simply search for #ncvps. Add #ncvps to the end of your tweets to be included in the conversation. You can also search #ncvps while the conversation is going on to follow instant updates to five twitter questions that will be asked of all participants.
Also, if you are conference participant, you’ll be able to access the roundtable discussion notes on Wednesday on the conference wiki here:
http://oli2009.wikispaces.com/ ; however, we will also prepare a summary here http://www.thevlc.org/ in case you are out of town and could not attend this particular roundtable discussion.
The session on Wednesday will begin with a five minute intro of my moderators’ bio http://www.ncvps.org/directory/bios/index.html as well as a few remarks about my own journey with twitter and what value I try to provide for my followers: https://twitter.com/bsetser.
Next, I will introduce the roundtable members and Dave Edwards will tweet their info and the one key learning they hope to gain from the session. I will then facilitate the discussion with five key questions that I will share live on Wednesday. As we all examine the provocative disruption of www.twitter.com in the educational setting, we will also go outside the ballroom to participants around the nation and around the world for their input on the key question of why in the world would I twitter in education?
