Original Post 10/2/07
is twitter's a wonderful thing!!
I truly am standing amazed at the last few days of my life in the technology world and the options and opportunities that are available to us. I, for one, am not taking any of this for granted and am not letting the "glitches" and "issues" get to me. For me, it is all magic and I just stand in awe of everything that I see. Literally, if I could, I would be clapping all the time!!
One just so opportunity occurred yesterday and I still am in a bit of happy shock.
As many of us who are presenting at K12 did, I put off putting my presentation together until the very last second. I knew what my part was (the Women of Web 2.0 have a chat on expanding the conversation) and I used my MAC and iMovie with iSight to put it all together.
And then I went to edit it -- and got 100% stuck. I had no idea what I was doing. I could have exported it to my PC, but I need to learn my Mac..........so I searched help but still remained helpless...........
and then I thought of Twitter......and typed in a "less than 140 character" cry for help. And within 10 minutes I knew exactly what to do and had gotten suggestions from several other twittiers too.
But what astounded me -- and astounds me -- is that my help came from Allanahk -- via a skype conversation while I was in California and she was in New Zealand!! WOW!!!
Less than a year ago, I would have struggled for hours to fix this. Posted to my edtech group, waiting a day for the request to be posted, waited a day for a response. But not anymore.......with the use of Twitter -- I have tech help 24/7 -- and I love it.
And one more "wonderful thing about Twitters" --- is that "I'm the only one" in this case is not true --- ANYONE and EVERYONE can use TWITTER. So sign up today - you will be glad you did.
Jen
is twitter's a wonderful thing!!
I truly am standing amazed at the last few days of my life in the technology world and the options and opportunities that are available to us. I, for one, am not taking any of this for granted and am not letting the "glitches" and "issues" get to me. For me, it is all magic and I just stand in awe of everything that I see. Literally, if I could, I would be clapping all the time!!
One just so opportunity occurred yesterday and I still am in a bit of happy shock.
As many of us who are presenting at K12 did, I put off putting my presentation together until the very last second. I knew what my part was (the Women of Web 2.0 have a chat on expanding the conversation) and I used my MAC and iMovie with iSight to put it all together.
And then I went to edit it -- and got 100% stuck. I had no idea what I was doing. I could have exported it to my PC, but I need to learn my Mac..........so I searched help but still remained helpless...........
and then I thought of Twitter......and typed in a "less than 140 character" cry for help. And within 10 minutes I knew exactly what to do and had gotten suggestions from several other twittiers too.
But what astounded me -- and astounds me -- is that my help came from Allanahk -- via a skype conversation while I was in California and she was in New Zealand!! WOW!!!
Less than a year ago, I would have struggled for hours to fix this. Posted to my edtech group, waiting a day for the request to be posted, waited a day for a response. But not anymore.......with the use of Twitter -- I have tech help 24/7 -- and I love it.
And one more "wonderful thing about Twitters" --- is that "I'm the only one" in this case is not true --- ANYONE and EVERYONE can use TWITTER. So sign up today - you will be glad you did.
Jen