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Comment on Have you #eltchat(ted) yet? by Imanol Gideon

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Comment on “Can translation (and translation tools) facilitate language learning and how can it be used to best effect” – a summary of eltchat 12/01/11 by TEFL blog roundup: January | David's ELT World

TEFL blog roundup: January | David's ELT World — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:48:23 +0000

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Comment on Bottoms Up, it’s a new year by Brad Patterson

Brad Patterson — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:40:17 +0000

Solid points in asking for more ‘practicality’ in the tech/no tech or mixed approach.

Best to you in 2012, Shaun and hopefully catch you on the circuit.

Cheers, Brad

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Comment on Can you help me with the content for a talk please by Walton

Walton — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:34:48 +0000

I will throw in a few things hashtagging hasn’t done for me. It hasn’t really organized information since anyone can hashtag anything in anyway they like. On the other hand, some group mechanism does lead to popularizing of certain hashtahs. And it hasn’t always been the best way to search since not everyone chooses to hashtag things. Or hashtags them at random. I never know whether to look at #esl, #elt, #e2l, #tesol, or #tesl. It seems like everyone has personal preferences. Personally rather than hashtags, I would prefer a fairly clever search engine like google that can search tweets with some intuition for keywords and synonyms and related words.

Now a deliberate hashtag community like #ELTchat solves a lot of those problems. As does an established company or organization saying, “Use this hastag to do this” But those are rather limited cases. Furthermore, when #ELTchat is underway and people are conversing, I do wish there was a way to take those tweets out of the mainstream. My non-teacher friends don’t appreciate reading so many pieces of a conversation that they aren’t a part of. In general, I think twitter is a lousy conversation device and have never fully grasped why people who want to chat don’t use chat programs.

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Jim George — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:28:02 +0000

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Comment on Can you help me with the content for a talk please by Tamas Lorincz

Tamas Lorincz — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:22:40 +0000

What I find fantastic about #s is that you can follow any conversation even after it has finished. I very rarely manage to take part in live #ELTchats, but I always makes sure to browse through the tweets as well as the brilliant summaries. It’s great to see how people interact with each other. One thing I have yet to learn is to be able to follow a live hashtag conversation. When there are 20-25 or even more people taking place in a conversation, I get very confused and by the time I manage to put my contribution to the conversation into 132 characters, it usually becomes irrelevant or someone has already mentioned it. I am still working on this skill. Meeting new people is definitely another advantage. The way people take part in a conversation is the best indicator of whether they would be interesting to follow. I never leave an #edchat or #eltchat without making at least a couple of new contacts (dare I say friends).

Comment on Can you help me with the content for a talk please by Dave Cleary

Dave Cleary — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:46:14 +0000

As a newbie to twitter I can see and understand the benefit of hashtags (I am sure I had some of them with bacon and a fried egg for breakfast once in Boston), however, it is taking me a while to get used to reading tweets and working out how to filter information. This is especially true when I have been away, even only for a couple of hours, and I have a large number of tweets to wade through. It also made me feel a little disorientated and not part of the group when I started out as I was not entirely sure when or where to use them.