#educhat - Wow!
While I've gone to many of the mainstream ed tech podcasts and listened to Liz Kolb, Ed Tech Talk and visited Classroom 2.0 often, tonight I was extremely excited to connect and to watch in real-time, other teachers connect live on Twitter, via the #educhat hashtag. Twitter is continually being used to aggregate conversation and connect mass groups.
The Twitter tool amazes me, and it's another milestone for the flattening of the world. In a couple years, using Twitter will be just as popular as Facebook is today, and I wonder how a connective tool like Twitter will connect educators more and more in that time. While the world waits to wrap their head around another tool, the educators of the nation might have a leg up.
I was quite amazed as the #educhat was updating 10 tweets a second at times, and I had trouble catching up with folks! Were these teachers? Educators? I've done Twitter searches before for teacher talk, but it would seem that the Twitter hashtag tool has hit a tipping point. Yahoo!
And although there has been some fun made of Twitter of late, I have lately found it an extremely helpful tool to trade tools, share strategies, and to share blog posts with wonderful, passionate educators about items like cloud computing and Moodle. See Miguel Guhlin's passion for Moodle at Around the Corner.
So, I just wanted to welcome all of those new educators out there via Twitter. Welcome my new followers @bonniebrown, @kyteacher, @john_ , @CU_Teach, @lisadawley, @mmiller7571, and @mrsfollis. I remember that in my first school our educators were an army. The Tweachers can be an army as well!
