Week 4

Live tweeting isn’t something I do often. Probably the only other notable event I’ve done this for was a conference I went to last summer. Both at that conference and during this lecture, I definitely struggled with working in parallel — with simultaneously paying attention to the speaker and recording relevant points to post on Twitter. What even further complicated this particular experience for me was the little background I had in Scheib’s topic. So not only did I struggle with finding a foundation off which to build off my listening and understanding; but, I also had difficulty extracting and reporting meaningful information from a presentation I was barely keeping up with myself. How was I supposed to tweet the most important pieces of Scheib’s talk for the benefit of others if I couldn’t always find them for myself to begin with?

Another distracting element is the nature of Twitter’s setup itself. While it was useful to track my classmates via the #MNL2 hashtag we agreed on, my Twitter feed was (as per its nature) bursting with all sorts of random topics from all the other various accounts I follow. It was easy to be distracted by tweets that were interesting but irrelevant to the topic.

Even now in my blog post, the experience of live tweeting the lecture is overshadowing the experience of the lecture itself. What’s supposed to be a space for discussing what I’ve taken away from Scheib’s presentation is being used for discussing the experience of tweeting it. Is there a way to efficiently capture and report information in live time without jeopardizing a wholly personal experience with the material?

As a resource, I’ve compiled our #MNL2 tweets from this lecture, which you can find below.
For my tweets only: http://sfy.co/r06XR
For our collective tweets: http://sfy.co/c0GYY