First Teachablemoment Shoutout…Thoughts
As of this afternoon we are 127 members strong @teachablemoment. Everyone is trying to figure out how to use, make time for @teachablemoment and how to access from school, since Twitter is blocked in some school districts.
We had the first shoutout from @reuw from Israel. Unfortunately there were few responses at the time that he sent the request. The shout-backs started to /are still are trickling in after a few hours.
Here are thoughts some of us are struggling with:
- Need/want to receive instant notification of tweet containing@teachablemoment
- Don’t want to weed through all other Twitters, might miss shoutout or read hours later (too late to respond)
- Will we need to send a shoutout to the network and give them a few minutes/hour time to read the twitter, prepare for skype talk, etc ?
- Will we run the risk of not getting responses if we send no pre-warning? But isn’t that the idea of @teachablemoment? Being able to get a response at a moment’s notice. Right there and right then when a teachable moment is happening in your class???? That moment might be long gone, if we have to send a Twitter “Hey will someone be available in one hour…?”
- How can we make sure that we have everyone in the group “covered” when there are giving a shoutout?
How can we make the concept of Quick-in/Quick-out teachable moments and demonstration of the power of the PLN workable.
Please let me know your thoughts.�
What constitutes a “shoutout”? I am unclear about that.
I’m thinking that to keep everyone covered this particular twitter account needs a lot more followers from all time zones. Maybe we should all be “canvasing” our contacts.
Would have given shout-back to @reuw, unfortunately since they aren’t part of my ‘following’/'followers’ I don’t get the info. Only @teachablemoment does. We need to figure out a way to overcome this.
Let’s think. When a conference is set up and they set up a Twitter id, how do others see what is sent to that id?
I’m still a ‘twittie’ and haven’t left the nest yet! LOL
Cont….I always like to have ‘possible’ solutions when posing questions/problems. So here goes:
1. I’ve RSSed teachablemoment
2. I need to check it throughout the school day
3. I need to figure out how to access Twitter (working on it, my problem)
4. Send a DM to the @individual and then ‘follow’ them, hoping that they will then follow me and read my future comments to them. (OR….just leave it at the DM)
Somebody help out here….this all sounds like a little too much to do in the middle of my day….
Thoughts? Suggestions? This is too good a prospect to give up on.
I’m gonna have to have a glass of wine and ponder the problem…
Nancy,
If you have an RSS aggregator, like Bloglines or Google Reader you can use the RSS feed generated by TweetScan. Like this you will receive ALL Twitters that contain @teachablemoment
Thank you for adding your thoughts. We will only figure this out as a group.
If I don’t catch it on the twitter timeline I need a faster way to see when my RSS is updated and it would only work if I have zero-inreader like a zero-inbox. Would it work if we shared notification across something like shared items in Google Reader or del.icio.us? Are people using a home page like iGoogle, Netvibes, or Pageflakes to try and follow? I agree with Susan that timezones could be a problem but for myself I think it is just as much having an @teachable moment stay visable in front of me and getting stuck like an alarm or the top thread in a forum.
been playing about with a widget to read the rss but still the slow update and need to refresh is a is a problem
Here are Susant’s widgets:
http://tinyurl.com/2o82fx or http://tinyurl.com/2vn8
They could just be added as a link to pop up window maybe?
Susan’s widgets are fine for ‘reading’, what can we do for replying? Other than a DM in Twitter (provided not blocked in school). Need some chocolate!!! LOL
About a week ago mrmayo tested whether its was possible for multiple people to be signed in to the same twitter account simultaneously.. It is, maybe then anyone wanting to answer a teachable moment could sign in to the account reply from within the account stating their own @id the @id of the shoutouter and message
this would mean that anyone using teachablemoment should subscribe to all @messages (i think)