#lrnchat uses a social messaging service, Twitter, to conduct an online chat. They hold chats once a week from 8:30 - 9:30 pm. Participants are typically those who are interested in learning in formal, informal, social, and mobile ways. It was so exciting and I was fully engaged in Twitter and the participants for that hour!
It was so neat to generate so much traffic to my twitter account while learning from people all over. A few of my classmates were involved as well and I even had a conversation on the side with one of them and a few #lrnchat participants too!
My Twitter notifications were on overload and it was challenging to keep up! (Good thing it was only an hour!) Here is a recap of my notifications and involvement in my first #lrnchat:
- I gained 5 new followers!!
- Had 19 of my tweets and tweets I was mentioned in favorited!
- Was directly tweeted at from 4 different classmates!
- Was retweeted by 3 lrnchat participants
- Had direct conversations with 5 people
- Was welcomed by 2 lrnchat participants
- And I was added to 2 lists!
Overall, it was a ton of fun and I learned something new!
If you're interested in reading more, check out the full transcript from last night's Learning Quotes discussion !
https://lrnchat.wordpress.com/2015/07/17/transcript-july-16-2015-learning-quotes/
Would you be interested in participating next week?
Let me know what you think(:
What great insight to your experience with Twitter chat. Your post was really interesting, seeing how you were able to interact with other people regarding the topic at hand. I read the transcript you posted and it seems like a great way to connect with people, not just for that moment, but also from that point on.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your feedback Samantha! Glad you were able to gain something from the transcript. I agree, it is a great way to network with similar people! I actually reached out to one of my new twitter followers (of which I gained from participating in #lrnchat) on LinkedIn to see if he would be interested in talking to me about his corporate Instructional Design position.
ReplyDeleteHi Nicole! Thank you for your post about the experience. I saw you there during lrnchat and it was fun to interact with you. Did you find the experience to be fast-paced? Sometimes I thought it was hard to keep up. It was also nice to see some 'experts' in my discipline and interact with many different fields that relate to learning.
ReplyDeleteHi! Yes it was a lot of fun! I found it very fast-paced as well and I was a little unsure how to get started since I was never too active on twitter! At first I texted my friend when it started to see if I am supposed to retweet and reply to them that way or if I were just to tweet at them, and that's when she told me about the reply button! I felt silly for not knowing, but it definitely made it a lot easier! I liked how we could view the whole conversation on each tweet as well. I kept refreshing my page and checking my notifications to ensure I replied and kept up. It was a great experience and an awesome way to network.
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