This reminds of the days of chat rooms. There was a designated topic and everyone was part of the bigger conversation but still addressed certain responses and questions to individual users.
I have to admit that being on #lrnchat was chaotic but fun. I found myself trying to keep pace with others and the questions posed by the moderator. It was engaging and it never slowed down. It also forced me to think of responses in a quick manner all the while considering the word limitation. That word limitation slowed me down considerably.
Below you will find one of my posts during #lrnchat
In the span of 60 minutes I generated more traffic on my twitter than in the last 3 weeks. For instance, I received several notifications including:
- 8 favorited tweets
- 4 replies
- 3 new followers
- 1 quote
- 1 list add (I didn't even know I could be added to a list)
What a great way to gain visibility!
I tweeted 13 times in the span of an hour. What a rush! I also followed an instructional designer and another #eme6414 classmate.
:) This experience made my night.
I joined the chat last Thursday and I had much of the same experience. It was intriguing, fun and engaging. I look forward to participating next week :-)
ReplyDeleteMy experience was that it definitely kept me on my toes. It was like having an intellectual conversation with many people at the same time. It was interesting to see how different conversations spun off and how that dialogue was still visible to the entire group.
ReplyDeleteSounds so interesting and challenging!
ReplyDeleteDid you use the "Twitter slang" while participating in the chat? I mean these odd abbreviations, like BFN, ICYMI, etc. The fact that I don’t understand them without googling makes me feel old and incompatible with twitting ;)
I did not use that Twitter slang. I do not know the slang myself. I feel old sometimes when it comes to those types of things too.
DeleteThat sounds cool!
ReplyDeleteI definitely need to try this thing out. Hopefully, it will make my twitter account to be something more than just an echo of my blog :)
It really does move fast. If you participate a few times, you'll get to know the regulars, and then it starts to get a bit easier to follow. But the energy and activity level really is great.
ReplyDeleteI have collected the lrnchat and three more chatting logs and analyzed for knowledge sharing and brokering. Dr. Dennen and I submitted it for AERA. I remember that lrnchat was the most active serious chats which included more than 600 tweets and 100 participants in an hour. That's huge number!
ReplyDeleteThank you for those numbers Minho! That is very impressive.
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