Another great resource is a site called Topsy (
www.topsy.com). This site allows me to go in and search the hashtag. You can set it to only show tweets with links. You can also specify the amount of time to look at the hashtag history. It could be in the last day, week month or year. Then I can scan that list and save good items to Diigo.
So that is my secret. I did the same thing with Moodle Conferences (Moodle Moots) that took place in Indiana (#mootusin12), Australia (#mootau12), and California (#mootusca12). You can even start monitoring the Moodle Moot in Ireland for 2013 (#mootie13).
Given the choice, I would certainly rather attend a conference in person. It is the best way to really feel the conference, meet people, and learn new things. But when it is impossible to be there, Twitter is the next best thing.
The hashtags are the main tool I use to “attend” the conference. But there were other tools available as well. ISTE had a blog, a daily newspaper, Facebook and many other resources. I can scan and participate in those to get information as well. Here is a blog post from Techconnects that talked about ways to be involved in the conference virtually. It can found at
ncara.edublogs.org.
Would you like to get started? Check out the other resources listed and learn more about Twitter and how to use it as a Professional Learning Tool.
Tammy Maginity has been in education for 23 years and is currently the Instructional Technology Coordinator for Pennfield Schools. She is a current MACUL Board member as well as a teacher at MSU in the MAET program.
Contact her at
maginitt@pennfield.net.
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