Comments on: Rename #lrnchat #lrnparty https://blog.elearnmag.acm.org/?p=88 Online Learning and Training Mon, 13 Oct 2014 18:45:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.25 By: Dave Ferguson https://blog.elearnmag.acm.org/?p=88#comment-341 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:47:59 +0000 http://wp.acm.org/elearn/2009/11/06/rename-lrnchat-lrnparty/#comment-341 Lisa, I’ve missed nearly all the lrnchats that have taken place since the article appeared, and dropped out halfway through last night’s. That’s due to family matters, though, not to the chat in general or last night’s topic in particular.
Which underscores another point: you don’t have to be there all the time. I can hear fulminations about cocktail parties, though they tend to be from non-participators or folks who’d prefer to hold forth at greater length.
Like Clark, I’m sure some people feel overwhelmed at first. If you’ve never joined a Twitter chat, that’s a natural feeling; nobody was born with this behavior coded into the DNA.
#lrnchat is certainly not the be-all or end-all for anything. On the other hand, I do believe it’s a potentially enjoyable and enriching experience. You get a lot of short quick messages that you can use in many ways:
Looking for the websites or blogs of individuals
Looking at non-#lrnchat tweets in someone’s Twitter stream
Looking into who gets followed by someone you find interesting, informed, or illuminating

Take what you can use, and let the rest go by.

]]> By: Brent Schlenker https://blog.elearnmag.acm.org/?p=88#comment-340 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:45:32 +0000 http://wp.acm.org/elearn/2009/11/06/rename-lrnchat-lrnparty/#comment-340 Absolutely #lrnparty next week at DevLearn09 in San Jose. We will be running tweetchat on 2 screens during DemoFest.
So, bring your mobile device or laptop. Or just talk with others who are there about the topic and let them reflect your thoughts.
Either way, its shaping up to be quite an experience!
Cheers!

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