Twitter a Tweet

OK…so this is interesting and thought I’d share:

First if you don’t know what Twitter is or are just baffled about it watch this short video:

Now that we got that out of the way. Let’s see how it’s being used at this conference. There’s about 9 people here at the conference who are twittering their thoughts, their learning, and their ideas out to the web. There are people out there, like the IT Director at Yokohama International School, Brian Lockwood. Brian was able to “attend” a conference session today by following the tweets from people in a session. He even was able to capture the stream of thought and posted it to his blog. Now you too can go and relive that session. Click here for a view.

If you want to see what’s being talked about on Twitter about this conference at any given time you can follow the tweets of those here at the conference and those responding virtually by looking at the tag #eac09. By putting word or tag within your tweet you make your tweet finable by others who are talking about the same topic….in this case….this conference.

You can follow all of the conversation here: #EAC09 Search Results

During the keynote tomorrow I encourage you to check in here and see what you think. You don’t need a Twitter account to follow the information….so it’s an easy way to just watch and learn now it’s used.

Also for the Keynote tomorrow we’ll be using Chat Room A as a “Back Channel Chat” or place to talk and discussion the presentation as it’s happenings. I hope you pop in there as well to see how that conversation is going.

Again…..just trying to give you different ways to engage in the conference and experience ways of learning with the web.

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