I purposely used a hashtag in the title of this post because the main thing that allowed me to enjoy the 2014 MACUL conference was Twitter. Unfortunately I spent much of the conference at home, alone, sick as a dog, lying on my couch.
I did go to the pre-conference workshops on Wednesday, and they were awesome, but I was already getting sick at that point. By Thursday I had to go home. It was so disappointing because MACUL is one of the highlights of my year.
So I started reading the #macul14 posts on Twitter, partly because of the funny posts being put up by "MACUL E. Culkin", an anonymous and hilarious twitter poster. Pretty soon though, I began clicking on some of the links people were sharing. And, wow, it was like being at a mini MACUL conference in my living room.
I'd used Twitter halfheartedly for the past few years but never really understood its potential. The first thing I did was to watch a YouTube video put together by Erin Klein. Her website, Kleinspiration, contains a wealth of information too, but that's another discussion. Here's Erin's video. The beginning covers basic Twitter use, but I got some great ideas about setting up education lists and following inspirational people.
Some of the other twitter links I clicked on led me to great sites that I didn't even know existed. In addition to Kleinspiration, I found Edudemic, Teach Thought, and Newsela. I also read about some useful tools, like Emaze for creating presentions.
I
learned about some great sounding educational Twitter live chats, saw
fun pictures, read about iPad apps, found directions for doing all
manner of technological tasks, and watched instructive and
inspirational videos. One was this heartbreaking story.
Twitter. Who knew?
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