Twitter is a low hanging fruit for online thinking and learning. I cringe inwardly a little when someone pronounces Twitter as the best PD they\u2019ve ever had. I wonder how it is that they have had such a barren run throughout their career for this to be true. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
from: Twitter Is The Low Hanging Fruit Of Networked Learning \u00ab Graham Wegner \u2013 Open Educator<\/a><\/p>\n I believe that the Best PD\/CPD quote was originally TeachMeet, according to Ollie Bray, in 2007<\/a> way back when TeachMeet was ScotEduBlogsMeetUp1<\/a>. <\/p>\n One of the things that made TeachMeet such effective cpd was the feeling of ownership and inclusion it brought about. <\/p>\n Graham goes on say:<\/p>\n But blogging is different for me. I can recall various blog posts that have turned on the virtual light bulb for me with ideas that couldn\u2019t possibly be contained within 140 characters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Although I find twitter, useful and fun you have to agree that it fall short of the inspiration and information given by a great blog post. I don’t claim this for my own posts, which often are hurriedly put together with no focused audience (see my last post<\/a>, which was only of interest to me Pedagoo do make great use of twitter2<\/a> , live TeachMeet like events but it is probably the detailed and focused blogs posts that hold it together. I have only watched from the sidelines but it looks like pedagoo might be making a solid claim on being the best cpd around?<\/p>\n 1.<\/a> TeachMeet07 – ScotEduBlogs Wiki<\/a> ↩<\/a><\/p>\n 2.<\/a> See the #pedagoofriday tweets, currated on pedagoo, for example: #pedagoofriday 5\/10\/12<\/a> ↩<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For Graham Wegner: Twitter is a low hanging fruit for online thinking and learning. I cringe inwardly a little when someone pronounces Twitter as the best PD they\u2019ve ever had. I wonder how it is that they have had such a barren run throughout their career for this to be true. from: Twitter Is The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wwwd","7":"kind-article","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-Bz","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14980,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions\/14980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
) but you just need to look at the posts coming out of the pedagoo.org<\/a> crowd, for example Kenny Pieper’s blog<\/a> to see the strength of the long form.<\/p>\n