Twitter followers mosaic
Twitter followers mosaic Mar09 by plakboek Been using it for about a year now. Kind of like mico-blogging with SMS sized posts. It is a world with entry points via the web and mobile phones. A place that bridges into social networking sites like Facebook or the real world with mobile phones. I rather liked the description used by Jo that this is a "community of practice for educators".
This picture is a mosaic of some of my followers. If you are a twitter user, you can easily make your own: http://sxoop.com/twitter/mosaic.pl
At an ISTE leadership panel at NECC in San Antonio back in June 2008, I had the luxury of being in the position where I could swap details with my co-presenters from around the world. On that front desk with our laptops, we didn't just swap stories and business cards, we added each other to twitter then happily cross posted our ideas thoughts and reflections. I can thank the Australian Twitters on the study tour that helped me to get my head around this technology in time to join in.
Well, if you have trouble wondering why educators want to know what each other are doing, at least understand that our students and robots are already posting tweets. I regularly follow NASA PR tweets (a team drove an electric lunar rover during the Washington celebrations) and followed daily tweets from the Phoenix lander on Mars and continues to tweet news, events and information on the mission (with the obvious help from a human interface)
When the little robot's battery finally ran out, it coughed up its last digital tweet ..
"01010100 01110010 01101001 01110101 01101101 01110000 01101000 <3"
Time for me to post something again to Oz-Teachers .. perhaps the spirt of Phoenix is listening in :-)