Reading: Hashtags and retweets
I’m getting back into reading around things I enjoy and things that matter to me. What better place to start than with the archives of the RILT, the ALT Reasearch in Learning Technology open access Read More …
Category: Twitter
Dear Twitter. It’s not me, it’s you
Here’s a confession … I’m not as enamoured by Twitter as I used to be. Unlike a traditional break up argument (is this the case, I don’t know?) where one party says to the other Read More …
Upload, not Unload
One issue I find with having a sizeable following on social media is that I don’t feel like I can show the kind of frustration that others do when they share personal, political, or professional ‘concerns’. I like Read More …
The intrinsic and extrinsic value of academic blogging #LTHEchat
I’m not new to running or paricipating in tweet chats, in fact I’ve done a fair few over the last few years. And loved each for their own individual characteristics – here is a write Read More …
How Twitter can be used for informal personal learning?
I joined Twitter in January 2008 and in the last 6 years, 4 months, and 7 days since my first tweet I have made or posted nearly 33,000 tweets! As I highlighted in my post Read More …
Tips on running a Tweet-chat
Last week I was involved in the second iteration / cohort / running of the BYOD4L short course. Along with a number of colleagues we ran a series of tweet-chats each evening along the course themes – Read More …
‘Anyone who doesn’t love Twitter is an idiot’
These are not my words (although I may agree with them)! In February I wrote about my experience of Twitter and how it has changed the way I work, think, and look at myself – Read More …
Where would I be without Twitter?
[Read this next bit as though it’s a well known Sinead O’Conner song] It’s been 5 years, 30 days, and 53 minutes since my first tweet. Here is it: In that 5 years, 30 days, Read More …
Learning Technologist collaboration research project #LTFE #LTHE
I am pleased to be involved in a project with Geraldine Murphy and Rachel Challen from Loughborough College which looks to explore the identity of a Learning Technologist through the “analysis of language”. Read the full Read More …
Twitter, updated
I have been on Twitter for nearly 5 years now, using my @hopkinsdavid handle/username. In this time I’ve amassed nearly 6700 followers and am currently following just over 1300 accounts – I don’t call them Read More …