ISTE11: Four Days and Twenty Thousand Tweets

As part of our coverage for the International Society for Technology in Education conference, we live blogged each day of the conference using Scribblelive. The tool was really dynamic, and allowed us to pull in content from the #ISTE11 hashtag, upload our own photos and video, as well as have any EdReach reporters contribute as writers. What I didn’t expect, is that the #ISTE11 hashtag would be so important. Originally, the content was just our own, but I quickly realized that not having the sharing of the entire ISTE community, made our own liveblog- kind of sparse and disconnected. Once we added the hashtag, we were then able to comment on individual posts, and more importantly archive all of the content from the entire #ISTE11 hashtag. In four days, the #ISTE11 hashtag created roughly 20443 tweets. Of course, that’s only tweets from people that used the hashtag.

Now, I’ve tried this a number of ways. Google Docs has been very unkind to my formatting of this csv document, but I finally got it uploaded as a Google Spreadsheet here.  I’ve also published it as a Web page here, which makes for very easy Command- F searching.  The spreadsheet, on the other hand, allows a person to sort by Twitter name, which is kind of cool. Here’s a handful of Adam Bellow’s tweets from ISTE:

Anyhow, I hope this can be useful to educators that may be looking for new Twitter followers, or want to be reminded of some of the great resources that ISTE had to offer. Feel free to “Make a Copy” and use the info as you will.