‘ExploreMTBoS: Getting started with Twitter’:.
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If you are wondering how to get started tweeting, there are three excellent resources I can recommend: I can honestly say that it has transformed my teaching, and made me feel like I belong in a supportive community of educators.
You might be wondering why I ‘waste’ so much time on Twitter. For example, lots of the people I follow might be at a conference that doesn’t interest me, so I mute the hashtag for the conference. I do this by temporarily muting hashtags and people that corresponding to tweets I’m less interested in. If there are a lot of tweets, and I don’t have much time, I start to remove tweets from my feed. When I log onto twitter, I start by working through my notifications, then go to my timeline. Occasionally I will use the official Twitter app or website to access group conversations and other features. Importantly for me, Tweetbot presents my timeline in chronological order, which I find much easier to follow. These third-party apps are missing some Twitter ‘bells and whistles’, but they also suppress ‘features’ I don’t want, like ads and what other people have ‘liked’. The official Twitter website and apps make me want to scream I use Tweetbot 3 on both my iPhone and MacBook Pro. I’m not sure what proportion is currently maths related.Īs someone who has a iPhone surgically attached to their hand, that is my primary way of accessing Twitter. I pared down the list of accounts I’m following to 600, which is manageable. I tried lists but they didn’t suit my daily reading style. As someone who tries to read every tweet in my timeline (more on that later), I was feeling overwhelmed. I found that the conference hashtags was a good way to follow what was going on, to talk to other people about their reactions to sessions and, after the conference ended, to have a way of keeping loosely in contact with the people I’d met.Įventually I was following more than 1200 accounts. My first maths-related tweet was in 2014 but it wasn’t until I gave one of the plenaries at the 2015 AAMT conference ( #AAMT2015) that I started using Twitter to properly engage with other maths educators. When I began, I followed mainly followed politicians, comedians, productivity and technology experts, and a relatively few mathematicians and maths educators. I joined Twitter in 2009 but didn’t post my first tweet until February 2013. If you use Twitter, how do you use it? (Do you use lists? Just scroll through your feed? etc) Now I might spend an hour (at most) every week looking at either Reeder or Instapaper.Ģ. I used to check blogs in a similar manner to how I check Twitter. If I want to store it for reference, I’ll send it to Evernote. If I want to act on it, I’ll email it to myself. Occasionally I’ll check through Reeder and send any long posts I want to read more slowly to Instapaper. I use an iPhone app called Reeder to aggregate the RSS fields from blogs (more below). (That’s kind of horrific but, in my defence, I’ve been at a conference all week, and so my Twitter use often skyrockets.) I estimate I’d spend 60-90 minutes on Twitter each day. My iPhone tells me that my daily average on Twitter over the last seven days was 2h 48 min. By the time I go to bed, I’ve probably caught up on my tweets, ready to start again the following morning.
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If the TV is on, I’m probably idling through Twitter at the same time. A typical evening has some chill time on the couch. Throughout the day, I check Twitter in snatches - when waiting in line, as a short break between other tasks, while walking to meetings (or even in boring meetings :)). I’ll spend maybe 30 minutes scrolling through my Twitter feed, and responding to notifications.
I start every morning with a cup of tea in bed, and my Twitter feed. What does your average reading/watching/listening day look like? (How much time do you spend reading/watching/listening? Which platforms are you on? Are you reading hard copy or digital, et cetera.) You might also like to read posts by Michaela Epstein ( and Jeremy Hughes ( you write a blog in response, let Ollie, Michaela or me know and we’ll link to it from our posts. If you were at our #MAVCON session, I presented a few slides which can be accessed here.ġ.
The greater the diversity of responses, the more likely it’ll be that a reader will find an approach that works for them. We hope that others in the Edu-Twitter/blogging community will also write posts that respond to the same six questions. It’s a response to Ollie Lovell’s blog post with the same questions (and title!). This blog post describes how I curate and consume my education reading list.
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