I joined into #edleadchat that had the topic of engagement vs. compliance.
Both twitter and storify are still new to me and twitter is actually still a little confusing at times. I was using tweetdeck and wanted to create a new column of edleadchat but couldn't remember how and the clock was counting down to when it was going to start. Fortunately, if you press enough buttons you either ruin everything or it works out (my personal experience). In this case I ended up screwing a lot of things up, figuring out how to get it back to what I wanted and then, woo whoop, getting the column in time for the chat.
So, not knowing in the least how chats worked I had only planned on observing and pulling things into storify interesting (another sharp learning curve as I was trying to figure it out AS right before the chat and I wanted to try and pull directly from twitter, well the tweet deck...not sure why anyone would use the original twitter- pain in the neck). First comment, though was, asking people to introduce themselves and where on the faculty they were. Hmmm..., I thought, what faculty? Is this a school or group chat? Is it for certain people only? To be honest, even after the whole thing is said and done, I am not sure but they did advertise on #caedchat. I also looked at their personal profiles to try and figure it out but all I could find were credentials for higher ups so I thought, 'Well, I'm here so, what the heck'. "Hi all i'm so and so from USD and blah blah blah" and just like that I was in. Now truthfully? I immediately got nervous. I'm more of a watch and learn the process and I had now idea if I was or was not supposed to say. Well, I won't give the whole storify away but long story short one other person showed up (well two others who just left a comment or two and were never heard from again) and we ended up just chatting with each other. She was the vice principle of a school in San Mateo and was great. It sort of reminded me of the old yahoo and msn chats except at the end I kept having to type in #edleadchat. Something I kept forgetting to do so would have to retype and add it. I can only imagine how it must look on #usdedu14 since everything I tweet shows up lol. It is just a series of tweets then retweets with the #. Look like a twitter novice? You bet. Ah well, as prof said, only way to learn is to keep playing with it.
So, if you are interested HERE is the story:
http://storify.com/DTinelli8/caedchat-march-17