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Hi there, and welcome to this week’s episode of “Day in a Sentence,” a magical place where you can boil your entire week down to a mere sentence! I’m Jo Hawke, filling in this week for your usual host, the ever-energetic, awe-inspiring Kevin of Kevin’s Meandering Mind.
If you haven’t at least heard of Twitter by now, you must be living in a cave. :P Seriously, now that Oprah‘s done an episode on the social-networking service, it’s official: Twitter has hit the Big Time.
In honor of the San-Fran start-up’s merging into the mainstream, I suggest doing this week’s Day in a Sentence Twitter-style!
The rules:
- Boil down one of your days into one 140-characters-or-fewer sentence. You can abbreviate and use symbols, if you like!
- Write or paste your sentence in the comment box below and send it. (Adversely, you can email me your sentence at mrshawke(at)gmail.com.) All comments are moderated, and I won’t release the sentences until after they’re published. Other comments will be approved as reviewed.
- On Sunday, probably sometime in the afternoon, I’ll publish your sentences in a new post. Then, I’ll also release the original comments.
If you’re already on Twitter, I’d love for you to follow me, so you can read all the tweets I’ll be twittering (or tweeting) or possibly retweeting!
If you’re not, try it out. There are some great ideas floating around the Twitterverse to inspire you in your classroom, boardroom, or studio. And you may be able to follow some of the innovators in your field.
I get to follow everyone from creativity and education expert Sir Ken Robinson and Sal Iozza, founder of open-source e-commerce application CRE Loaded, to Randa Clay, design and marketing guru (who made the above Twitter graphic!), Pulitzer-winning photojournalist Jim MacMillan, and English educator and prolific author Jim Burke.
And, of course, there are educators on my list that I actually met through the Day in a Sentence feature: Kevin, Bonnie, Larry, Gail, and Anne!
If you’re still not sold, don’t let the Twitter-eze or the word count hold you back, as long as you’re writing about a part of your week. ;)
Please email me with questions or comments (or use the form below). And thanks for joining me!!
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Updates
- Here’s the video that Kevin posted at his website. It explains Twitter “In Plain English.”
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