Twittering at a Conference
No questions about it! Twitter has transformed my learning in the last few years. Having a constant stream of ideas, thoughts, resources and experts at my fingertips is invaluable for me these days. I continue to find new ways to make Twitter work for me, but also to contribute to the learning of others.
I want to share my experience of twittering from a conference (Curriculum Mapping), I attended last week. You might ask:
Why would you twitter at a conference?
Well… I am:
- picking out the main idea the presenter is trying to make
- summarizing and condensing what I am hearing
- trying to write concise
- by documenting the important points for me
- documenting in chronological order what is happening
- sharing with my Twitter followers the information that I am receiving
- disseminating ideas, thoughts, resources, discussions, questions, answers…
- allowing others, who are not physically present, to participate to a certain degree
Take a look at the following screenshots of my tweets from January 12-14 during the conference. Scroll down to the end to begin, since they are in reverse chronological order.
What is your impression? Are these kinds of tweets from a conference helpful? Do they give you an idea of the conference? Are they confusing/useful/useless? Do you tweet at conferences? What are some of the advantages you see/have experienced?
Silvia -
I just attended FETC this past weekend in Orlando, FL. The value of Twitter at the conference quickly became apparent, allowing attendees to virtuall attend two or three sessions beyond the one that they were physically attended.
Amazing. I’ll try and never attend another conference without Twitter.
Just before Christmas, I ‘virtually’ attended 4 conferences via Twitter/TweetDeck in a 2-week period. With the economy and the increase in air-transit security, it’s much easier to check in with people who are at the conference sharing their views, than to convince my school to let me travel around North America.