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Twitter: Mutants Thinking Together
- Gardner Campbell (English, Linguistics, and Speech, UMW)
Log in. See a web page. Answer the question: "what are you doing?" What could be more inane? What could be more Interweb-navelgazing? But get some friends, get some followers, expand "doing" to "thinking, feeling, planning, mulling, reading, linking to," and you have a microblog, a persistent chat, a collaboratory, the Next Small Thing in the Web 2.0 universe. I'll discuss my fledgling experience with Twitter, ruminate about possible uses for teaching and learning, and eagerly solicit comments from the audience. At some point, I will also explain my title.
Twitter: First Take
Twitter: Double Take
- Advocates (my personal suite of trusted experts and practitioners)
- And as I was IM-ing last night with Brian, we both get charged from the sense of “play” there- you get backchannel like banter, humor, wisecracks, mixed in with the more serious or factual exchange. Why is it deemed less worthy if there is an environment has a strong element of “play”– isn’t that the key factor in first stage learning? engagement? do any infants learn to walk and talk from listening to PowerPoints? The CogDogBlog
- So far, I'm surprised how much I dig the feeling... kind of a hybrid between IM, goofy fun micro-blogposting, and a discussion board in which I decide who to follow. Brian Lamb
- Bryan Alexander early link survey (March 30)
Twitter: Experiments
- First plunge: My Twitter Page
- Second plunge: activating mobile Twitter
Twitter: Cognitive and Affective
- Emotional Intelligence (Goleman, 1995): The brain has two memory systems, one for ordinary facts and one for emotionally charged ones (21).
The Full-Time Intimate Community (FTIC)
- FTICs are the close group of friends (usually around 8-10 people) with whom you share presence. Most mobile youths know whether members of their FTIC are awake, at school, happy, sick, finished with their homework, etc. They use their mobile phones to keep in touch with their FTIC usually sending state changes by text message. The idea behind Radar is to use photos as a presence stream to your intimate friends.... [emphasis mine] Joi Ito
- Blogging is (for me) about personal knowledge management. Capturing the content and context of what I'm doing. Social networking is about context more than anything. Which looks at first blush to be purely banality. And yet, it affects me on a deeper level. D'Arcy Norman
Twitter: "Who Should Attend"
- I was in Vancouver for an "eCOP" pathfinding meeting, and found that I flipped open the MacBookPro during breaks. What did I check first? It wasn't email. It wasn't my blog (or blog stats, or blog referrals). It was Twitter. I felt more connected to my distributed community of edubloggers (and others) because they're always there with me, no matter where I am. That's powerful stuff. Now, how to better make sense of that? Or does making sense of it suck the soul out of it? D'Arcy Norman
- Social Intelligence (Goleman, 2006): Neuroscience has discovered that our brain's very design makes it sociable, inexorably drawn into an intimate brain-to-brain linkup whenever we engage with another person (4).
Twitter: Mutants Thinking Together
- Pater's Axiom: All Art Constantly Aspires To The Condition Of Music
- Campbell's Corollary: All Internet Communication Aspires To The Condition Of Telepathy
- John Wyndham, The Chrysalids (American title, Rebirth)
