#Langchat on Twitter

I participated in the #Langchat on Twitter on Thursday evening, March 3rd. 

Before the chat began, I took sometime to reflect on my relationship with Twitter. I am relatively new to Twitter, having an account for only a year. I find Twitter hard to use because a lot of time it moves so fast that I can’t seem to keep up. Many times it just seems like a lot of noise with no substance. This opinion has changed over the past few months. I had never participated in a live chat on Twitter before tonight so I was very interested in experiencing it firsthand.

As the chat started the speed of responses was unreal. I was blown away at the pace that I had to maintain to read everything being tweeted. To be honest it was frustrating at times. Quite a number of people were sharing APPS that they were using or looking for more info on. I felt that I didn’t have time to check them out and stay in the conversation. We also discussed how we give feedback to individual students. I have never seemed to have that problem. I always give personal feedback on each writing assignment. Sometimes more than others, it depends on the assignment. It was nice to see other teachers doing the same things that I am doing. It made me feel validated. I also realized that many teachers are doing even more in their classes that I was. That was also humbling.

One other concern that I had during the chat was that many users were using abbreviations that I had no idea what they were! It was like reading a foreign language sometimes! Since the #Langchat takes place every Thursday and Saturday, I do plan on participating in future chats. I have also brought one of my colleagues on board to participate as well.