Keeping up with live tweeting is a challenge for me. My ADD brain has trouble keeping focused and remembering to include all the proper hashtags and all that fun stuff, while also keeping up with what is happening in front of me.
Squirrel!
Just kidding!
Joking aside, I completely forgot to attach my class hashtag to half of my tweets, and feel like I missed a lot of the game that I was tweeting about because I wasn’t fast enough at typing on my phone. Insert applause here for all the people who can do this well. At this point in the post, I guess you are probably wondering what the thread even is that I am talking about! Well here it is:
I have been doing a lot of reading about digital story telling strategies and live-tweeting principals. Using some of these strategies helped me bring everything together into a story that though may not be as exciting as some Twitter threads, I feel was engaging and held some intrigue and emotion. There was a beginning, middle, and conclusion, as well as a wrap up for the little side note about the cat!
If you have made it this far into the blog post and haven’t gone to read the thread yet, here is a little synopsis for you. My husband and I are on vacation at my in-laws house in Nova Scotia. Both my husband and his dad are avid pool players, so my live-tweet thread is commentating on a game that they had this evening. It went so fast that it was hard for me to keep up! But they are still playing as I am here typing this post. His dad is currently up 5 games on him, haha!
Side note…
If you have any suggestions to help my husband’s game get better, feel free to leave them here. (Also don’t tell him about this or I’ll be the one in the dog house).
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