Two more twitter tips

It's been a super-busy few weeks for me. I have a few more new followers on Twitter and I've had lots to explore to try and answer questions from people who are still getting used to new things, like me. I'm trying to be helpful but I'm just having a go myself and then I tell people what I found. I hope that's okay!

Twitter is great, and is teaching me heaps, but I've been getting a bit dizzy with all the information on there! Last week I found really useful things like URL shorteners (I like http://www.bit.ly/ and http://www.is.gd/). These are handy because you only have 140 letters in a tweet, and often a website address can be really long! I made a quick video to show what I do here.

One thing I've also noticed is that after you follow more than 100 people, it feels like quite a lot of information if you want to quickly look at your Twitter stream, or newsfeed, or whatever you call it. One tip I saw was that you can make 'lists' to categorise people you follow. If you follow some teachers, for example, you could make a list called 'teachers' and add them to it. Then you can just choose to look at that list if you want to quickly see what they're talking about. Or you can just do what I do and try to read everything, then get confused and hide behind your computer until it goes away.

I've seen heaps of really good videos recently, so I'm going to explore some video-sharing websites in the next week or two and see what I can learn. Wish me luck! 

New friends and new finds on Twitter

It's Friday already! The week goes so fast when you're exploring all the time *cough*. I get so dizzy sometimes from all the new things I'm looking at and next thing I know it's the weekend and everyone is going home again *sigh*...

This week I've been really trying to get my tail into Twitter and sharing what I'm doing. I had a go at following new people and practised how to do a reply and retweet. I think I did okay.

Then I had a go at exploring #ELTchat and discovered that there are heaps of transcripts and summaries of past conversations on their website. I made another video of that and found some really nice music in Soundcloud that was okay for me to use because it's licensed under a Creative Commons thing. I need to explore that more later, because it's a bit complicated for me right now.
I have some new followers on Twitter too! A big fluffly hello to @morgan2morgan, @kimmy_tee, @zeusmeister10, @cherrymp, @louisekane2, @kzaneh, @conniefessler, @gracehyh, @barbsaka and everyone else! I had one or two funny tweeps follow me who were tweeting about naughty things but I just blocked them and they can't follow me any more! Easy! *sparkle*
Excited about what I might explore next week, but for now I'm super-tired. Think I'll have a snooze behind my old computer

Gremlins?

Ooh, golly, I’m in trouble now! After I got a bit wet in the rain the other week, I started to feel a bit funny. Next thing I knew, there were 2 of me! And then 4 of me! I fluffled off and hid behind the computer in my dust where I feel safe. I waited as long as I could for the sounds of multiplying fluff and tweeting tails to stop, and when I looked out again, I was everywhere! I was so frightened by the multiple me that I closed my eyes very tight and went grey so they wouldn’t see me.

After a while I ventured out from behind my old computer and had a look. They were gone! All of them! I thought I saw a little white tail fluffling off to the teachers’ room but I didn’t dare follow.

Now I’ve noticed there are people in Parramatta and Cabramatta who have started following me on Twitter and making friends with me, even though I’ve never met them before. I wonder if the other Navitars have gone travelling…?

Finding my feet (under the fluff!)

Just watching and fluffling about!



 It's been a long time since I last wrote my diary, but I've been exploring so much I've barely had time to cough! Here's what happened. My feet are a bit sticky and I was just fluffling around one day in my usual spot behind the old computer when I got stuck to someone's shoe! Suddenly I was hitching a ride away from my dusty spot and into a classroom. At least I think it's a classroom - I couldn't see much from under the desk but I saw a pair of feet at the front and it sounded like there were students doing lots of fun things! Some of them were talking in other languages too, which seemed to make the teacher angry.
I'm not sure what happened next but I fell off the shoe and had to stick myself to the hem of someone's jeans to get out. Now I'm in a room full of computers and I'm watching what the students are doing to try and learn what I should do. At the moment, most of them are looking at something called Facebook with lots of pictures of people and they're typing little comments and having tiny conversations with them! How funny!

If you want to find out more about me (I get confused sometimes), have a look at my last two diary entries...

Exploring with the blue bird

Tweet tweet! *cough*

*cough* Twitter! It’s called Twitter! There are millions of people on there – I think you call them twits. Some of them are followed by millions of other people, especially if you’re famous and are a relative of the queen like Lady Gaga. I started to explore by following people, and I’m learning from them every day. Now there are 18 people who follow ME – and I don’t even know where I’m going! *cough*

One thing I learned about Twitter is that people show you useful things all the time. Some people just talk about their favourite shoes and people they don’t like, but lots of people show me articles they read or videos they liked that they think I will like too. My favourite twits at the moment are @TEDtalks and @GOOD – there’s so much to learn just on these websites!

I live somewhere where people speak lots of languages, but they also speak English. I don’t understand everything they say, so I’m following some people on Twitter to help me. There’s a nice lady called @shellterrell who seems to know lots and lives in Germany, and @cioccas seems very friendly – she lives in Australia like me. Then there’s @Marisa_C – I think she’s the president of Twitter and lives in Greece. She showed me that if I type #eltchat I can find heaps of things about learning – just what I need for exploring the world! *shimmer* so excited! *sparkle*

I am Navitar

*cough* I am Navitar. I appeared on 3rd March 2011 when some balls of dust behind a disused computer were rolled together by a draft from the door. I'm not sure why I'm here, and I want to find out. I'm trying to make contact with someone - anyone - and this old computer is all I have.

I found a picture of a blue bird on the computer just after I appeared. I can write short messages to the bird, but I don't know if anyone can read them. People follow me, but how do they know where I'm going? I follow other people, but I don't know where they're going either.

I'm keeping this diary too. Maybe no one will read it, but that's okay. If the door shuts tomorrow and the dust comes apart again, at least someone will know I was here.

Life is confusing when you're a ball of dust *cough*