Last week I went to a meeting of technology directors and teachers in the Catholic schools of the Dallas Diocese. Some of them talked about using Twitter, which I earlier played with but had not had much use for. I decided to go back to it and follow some of the Education Technology folks using Twitter.

I’m starting to like using it to post little snippets of interesting things I find on the web, more like what the original concept of a weblog (origin of the term “blog”) was. Twitter has a message size limit of 140 characters, which keeps one from writing a long post. This has the effect on me of encouraging me to go ahead and post something, even when I don’t have a lot of time, because I can’t write a real long post. All that to say that I have another alter ego on Twitter which you can check out if your so inclined.

By the way, the question above the input box on Twitter is, “What are you doing?” A lot of people use Twitter as a way to broadcast their current mood or activity. I’m a little too private for much of that, so I will tend to restrict my posts to things I consider more informative.