#TeachAgChat Reflection: Gems and Opps

Social media can be a funny thing. It is a chance for us to share information about ourselves with friends, share out important dates for events, and even lets us share information regarding questions that we all have. That is exactly what I wanted to do with my Twitter Chat. I wanted to ask the public on Twitter they thought about technology in the classroom and what resources they could share with me.

The twitter chat was called, “Opportunities and challenges with technology regarding School-Based Agriculture Education.” The questions were fairly simple with an objective to share information and get peoples personal opinions about what they thought technology in the classroom entailed. Check out our graphic below for the questions!

 

So lets talk about the event!

Gems:

My teammates were awesome! Janae Herr and Jenna Timmons, both members of the 2016 senior class, they helped in the collaboration of creating the questions and sharing out the information on their personal twitter feeds.

We were prepared for the event by having our graphic ready to go and finding resources to share out! We even had a dinner ready to go! It was great!

TweetDeck was our lifesaver! It allowed us to tweet and retweet the responses and questions and even let us pre-create the tweets with the questions and time them out to keep the conversation going!

Assigning roles to people is definitely important as well when completing a twitter chat. My teammates and I worked hard to assign roles of the greeter, retweeter, follow up question giver, and many more to make this chat possible! It was great to know that we all had each other’s backs in this assignment!  

Opps:

I believe that we had a lot of questions for a short amount of time. Altough I believe all of our questions were important and we did want to know answers to all of them, it was hard to get them all answered in the short amount of time that we had.

More Experts were needed! In our Twitter Chat we are challenged to find experts to help us out with the chat and to be there to help answer any other questions others may have that we may not have the answer to. The role of the expert was not defined as well as it should so that would be an improvement that I would stress to the other Teach Ag Chat people that are next!

 

Overall, I thought that it was a great opportunity to get our names out there and to find out answers to our questions that we all have. I was impressed by the amount of people that came to the chat and I also enjoyed that they pushed us in our thinking as well! Thank you for reading and good luck to the next Twitter Chat leaders with their chat this coming week!