(RT) 46 Stages of Twitter

Shamelessly copied and pasted from shanenickerson

46 stages of Twitter

1. Hear the word Twitter. Scoff.
2. Hear it again from someone else. Scoff again.
3. Hear about famous celebrity who is apparently "On Twitter." Scoff, but make mental note to check it out.
4. Log into Facebook to comfort self.
5. Sign up for Twitter.
6. Give up because it seems dumb.
7. Loudly criticize others on Twitter.
8. Follow @johncmayer, @aplusk, @rainnwilson, @wilw, @mrskutcher, @oprah, and one other person you actually know.
9. Post tweet that is a variant of: "Trying out this Twitter thing."10. Attempt to dig a little deeper into Twitter.
11. Notice rampant usage of words: "Tweet," "Twitter," "Twitterverse," "Tweetie," "Tweetdeck," and something called "RT."
12. Scoff again, this time in confusion.
13. Tell friends you "tried that Twitter thing, but didn't get it and it's stupid anyway."
14. Log into Facebook because that site at least makes sense.
15. Read story about Twitter somewhere.
16. Log back into Twitter.
17. Try to avoid saying Tweet, Twitter, Twitterverse, Tweetie, Tweetdeck, and ReTweet.
18. Respond to @rainnwilson.
19. Curse self for fanning out.
20. Log off for 4 months.
21. Come back, just to see.
22. Post something relatively funny.
23. Get RT'd.
24. Discover that RT means ReTweet.
25. Make it your life mission to get RT'd.
26. Install Twitter app on your phone.
27. No longer ashamed to say "I've gotta Twitter that."
28. Attend events with the sole intention of "Tweeting" them.
29. Pray to get RT'd.
30. Refresh. Refresh. Refresh. Refresh. Refresh.
31. Close computer.
32. Open computer. Refresh. Refresh. Refresh.
33. Think in 140 character sentences.
34. Compulsively check phone all day every day.
35. Tweet that you compulsively check phone all day every day.
36. Alienate actual people in your life in an attempt to impress ones you don't know.
37. Lose weight because you forget to eat.
38. Place phone by bed so you can check first thing in the morning.
39. Defend Twitter to the death from detractors.
40. Hear self, and vaguely recognize that you have become "That Guy."
41. Feel like, and start to behave like River Tam.
42. Vow to quit Twitter to preserve sanity.
43. Read this and change mind.
44. Think to self, "I should twitter that."
45. Recognize irony.
46. Twitter it.

Did I miss any?

Checking in.

After a brief hiatus from this blog, I was excited to see one other person is still using hers! (You really are a g33k!)

So, I'm supposed to be cleaning the house (you'd be surprised at how messy a house can get when two cats have the run of it for a month!) and instead I'm skimming the current group of professionals who are taking the Web 2.0 class. I like active web pages and I like seeing other people's ideas. I also think I found the blog of our Library Media Specialist today. If I'm right, you should join Ning! It's incredible!

I find that I'm having to skim down on my technology. Places that I visited frequently four years ago when I started 1:1 are obsolete for me these days. I don't go to Teachers.net anymore; I go to Ning.

I came on here to post about my mailing list - You can set up a free mailin glist from Bravenet and have parents subscribe to it. You only get 500 subscribers for a free account, but you *could* pay if you wanted to. I'm just going to cull the herd each year. 500 is a LOT of people.

You also only get to send one e-mail a day, but really, do you need to send any more? I think a mass e-mail once a week is plenty. Do parents really want a daily e-mail of the class agenda each day?

I think there is also a limit to the number of characters that you can send, but really, this is perfect for me.

If you want to see what mine looks like, check out my web page. I'm warning you though, it all looks pretty rough. I'm in the revising process right now.

New things I am adding this year!

This year, I am adding a classroom Twitter account, a mailing list for parents for Bravenet, and I am going to use my blog more frequently. I am editing my webpage so that can integrate it more easily with Angel LMS, the portal that the 1:1 schools are using.

I was thinking of creating a Facebook page for my class, but then that would mean my students would be able to see my profile and request to add me. I don't want to have to create another "professional" profile on Facebook. Not that I post anything that is really bad - there is just a line there that I am not going to cross. I don't want my friends and students mingling.

I've been using Ning, and I have to say, I *love* it! Come find me on there!

I've also been looking into diigo instead of Delicious, becuase it has really cool highlighting and sticky note features, but I don't think we'll be able to use it because first of all, we'd have to download a program onto the computers, and secondly, I think it would be too easy for the students to create a chatroom.

Whoops! Gotta go put the trash can out! Post more later!