Comments on: #Edchat Revisited

By: #Edchat: Why & How | My Island View

#Edchat: Why & How | My Island View — Wed, 08 May 2013 17:47:31 +0000

[...] It requires some knowledge and a little strategy. If you are interested, this may help: #Edchat Revisited. If you are interested in viewing the past #Edchat discussions, we have archived the last several [...]

By: #Edchat Revisited | Technology in teaching Engl...

#Edchat Revisited | Technology in teaching Engl... — Thu, 02 May 2013 20:19:57 +0000

[...] When Shelly Terrell and I first discussed the idea that spawned #Edchat neither of us had any idea what it would become. It started as a place to begin, conduct and record some thought-provoking di… [...]

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Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:51:02 +0000

[...] is a great blog by Tom Whitby who created #edchat, which is also fantastic. It is a great post that explains how to set up your columns in Tweetdeck or Tweetgrid so you can [...]

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Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:23:17 +0000

[...] Just this morning, Tom Whitby (@tomwhitby) sent me another great resource for newbies: http://tomwhitby.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/edchat-revisited/ [...]

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By: Naomi Epstein

Naomi Epstein — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:27:21 +0000

You said “but there is always someone who is just joining us or creating a Professional Learning Network”

Thank you for taking into comsiderations newbies like myself. I am following oyur posts with great interest!

Naomi

By: Maryna

Maryna — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:12:39 +0000

Hi Tom
I never thought about how using hashtags could reach people not actually following you! I want to congratulate you and the others on getting #edchat off the ground. It is always interesting to see how passionate people can start a tidal wave if they just put their minds to it…truly a case of how a butterfly flapping its wings in America can cause a storm around the globe! Kind regards, Maryna. (from Down Under… )

By: Raymond Johnson

Raymond Johnson — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:14:52 +0000

I was a regular #edchat participant last fall, but then went away due to a class conflict this spring. In May I tried to participate once again, and was blown away by how much #edchat had grown. Unfortunately, it left a sour taste in my mouth, and I haven’t followed an #edchat since. The chat was moving too quickly (especially when tracing replies back to the original tweets), I felt even more constrained by 140 characters, and I came away feeling strongly that Twitter wasn’t the right tool for the job.

Twitter has a low barrier to entry and is inherently open, but not really designed for this kind of task. Forums are too slow, IRC has too high a learning curve, and some other chat platforms are too closed. Is anyone considering an alternative? From my experience in other online group discussions, I’d like to see a group of us experiment with Google Wave. As long as we’re doing multiple #edchats, why not experiment with some other tools? I’m pro-wave because (a) there’s no 140 character limitation, (b) waves contain non-linear message threads, which take some getting used to but are a logical way to organize replies, and (c) Wave is now open to anyone who wants an account. Is anybody up for this? Or are most other #edchatters content with Twitter?

By: @tcash

@tcash — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:02:26 +0000

What an interesting post! I’ve only discovered #edchat in recent months, but it has never failed to provide food for thought long after the hour is over. I always come away with new ideas to explore. I don’t always make it to #edchat, though, being in Morocco, and so a third chat time, or a weekly chat theme might be interesting. I think the concept of #edchat is so elegant and powerful – though it’s hard to keep up, I’m left wanting more! Success! Congratulations to founders and moderators for creating/facilitating such an exceptional learning tool.

Last night, I participated in my first #scichat. It was great as a chat focused on a specific content area – which, in itself, is very broad in terms of methods, approaches and content. It allowed me to zero in on some specific strategies and questions of very practical and immediate application, and make connections for collaboration with other educators teaching similar content. Fantastic! This experience left me wondering if there are other chats out there that are more specific in nature? Does anyone know of any? Or, if there aren’t any, should we start? Maybe one for elementary teachers (#elemchat ?) specifically, or social studies (#sschat ?), language arts (#lachat ?), math (#mathchat ?), or broad topics like differentiation … Maybe just start with deciding on hashtags then graduating to a weekly chat?

In the meantime, I plan to make the most of my summer time off and stay up late on Tuesdays to keep up with more @edchats – the choice of topics never fails to pique my interest. Bravo again to the #edchat folks for facilitating such a formidable option for educators wishing to stay current!

By: Lynne Oakvik

Lynne Oakvik — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:39:44 +0000

Thanks Tom for another great post! I am putting this in my archive as it will be a great tool to give to the newbies that I bring into the growing educators PLN on twitter.