#EdChat

I followed #Edchat on twitter by Jerry Blumengarten over the past couple of weeks. It was overwhelming how many people contributed to the chat. Therefore, I did not interact by tweeting in the chat, but by retweeting or favoriting many of the tweets I found useful and was in agreement with. I found many tweets relating to the technology in the classroom to be very interesting and useful. In fact, one of the tweets that I favorited showed a third grader using Google Chat, which surprised me for such a young age! It encouraged me to not write off the younger kids to enjoying and being able to succeed with technology.

However, one of the difficulties I found with following the #Edchat was that many of the tweets contained just Little remarks like "Useful Information for the Teacher" and then contained a link that followed. Therefore, I wasn't sure what the tweet really involved, and would either skip over it and not open the link, or if i did, sometimes I did not find it to be helpful. When every tweet contains a site to open up or follow too, it tends to get lost in a sea of links and overlooked! I enjoy when they give a description!