Follow the Twitter Backchannel at Cy-Fair’s 2010 Leadership Conference

I'm presenting at Cyprus Fairbanks ISD's "Rigor, Relevance and Relationships Conference" near Houston Texas. (June 9-11). My keynote, "The Reflective Principal / the Reflective School," is based on my Taxonomy of Reflection. For more on my reflective model click here.  Here's a link to the Prezi tour of the Taxonomy of Reflection. I'm also giving  breakout sessions in Strategies for Summarizing and Comparing. For a sample of those strategies click here.

To follow the conference Twitter stream, I created this Wiffiti visualization based on the conference hashtag #RRRCF. Stop by my session and I'll have it running live. Click in the lower right corner of the visualizer to view it full screen 

ASCD Conference 2010: My Arrival – a Prezi

I arrived at the ASCD conference in San Antonio today. So much to plan for over the next few days. Thought I'd try to capture it in a Prezi. Click the arrow, give it moment to load, then click to advance and navigate. 

For a full screen version  - click ASCD 10 Friday

      Made with Prezi

For more of my coverage of the 2010 ASCD conference check out these posts:

Twitter Visualization: What are the Key Words being Tweeted at ASCD Conference 2010 

Use Wiffiti to Follow the Twitter Backchannel at ASCD Conference 2010 

Use Wiffiti to Follow the Twitter Backchannel at ASCD Conference 2010

I was excited to receive a media invite from ASCD to be a “guest blogger” at their upcoming conference in San Antonio TX (March 6-8, 2010). To get started,  I’ve posted this Wiffiti screen which is coded to gather Tweets marked with the hashtag #ascd10. It’s a great way to keep up with the latest comments via Twitter. Click in lower right for full screen view.

Check out my other ASCD Twitter visualizer – a “Twitter StreamGraph” to track key word use associated with #ascd10. Check back at this blog for my ASCD posts and follow me at Twitter / edteck. And see you at #ASCD10.

Flickr photo credit:  “Midnight Dining” by Elmas156

Twitter Visualization: What are the Key Words being Tweeted at ASCD Conference 2010

I was excited to receive a media invite from ASCD to be a “guest blogger” at their upcoming conference in San Antonio TX (March 6-8, 2010).  To get started, I’ve posted this Twitter StreamGraphs visualization that displays a flowing graph of the words most frequently used in the latest 1000 tweets marked with the hashtag #ascd10. 

Note: Since the conference closed I’ve updated the graph to show tweets using #ascd.  Click here for full screen graph.  Twitter StreamGraphs is designed @JeffClark

Check out my other Twitter visualizer – a Wiffiti screen which gathers Tweets marked with the hashtag #ascd10. It’s a great way to read the latest comments about the conference. Check back at my blog for my ASCD posts and follow me at Twitter / edteck. And see you at #ASCD10.

 

 

Navigation tips:

 

 Scroll to right for the latest keywords. Scroll down to see the full Tweet.

If you see a large spike in one time period that hides the detail in all the other periods, click in the area to the left of the y-axis to change the vertical scale.

 

 

Harness Twitter and Your Audience Backchannel with Wiffiti

Recently I posted about trying out Wiffiti in my professional development sessions. "Use Wiffiti to Engage Your Audience." Since then I've used it a few more times with great success. I thought I'd share a live Wiffiti screen with my readers. This is from my most recent training session at Pomperaug High School in Southbury CT.

Wiffiti accounts are free and it's very easy to use. I created a new Wiffti screen using the school logo and set it to gather the tag #R88. The evening before the presentation (and again that morning), I posted a Tweet asking for greetings – “Say hi to Monday's teacher workshop at Pomperaug HS. (Southbury CT) Go Panthers! Tell us where you're from & why you Tweet. Add tag #R88”  As participants arrived in the workshop, they were greeted on the big screen with encouraging words from all over the world. 

During breakouts I switched back to projecting the Wiffiti screen and invited workshop participant to text message into the screen. They had fun with shoutouts to their friends and comments about the workshop.  Pretty impressive when you're talking about the impact of technology on teaching and learning!

Many thanks to my Twitter PLN who took the time to send us a greeting. You made this possible!