No doubt, many attendees noted the increased use of iPhones, iPod Touches, netbooks and laptops during this year’s CIT Instructional Technology Showcase. Chances are, many of those using mobile devices (even during presentations) were participating in the discussion going on in the micro-blogging tool Twitter. We used Twitter to provide an additional layer to the conference conversation. Didn’t get to attend that session? No problem – someone on Twitter wrote several tweets detailing it. Didn’t get to ask that question? Post it on the Twitter feed, and others just might respond.

Conference attendees who wanted to add to the Twitter discussion simply had to add a “hash tag” to the end of their tweets. For the Showcase, the designated hash tag was “#cit09″. Any time this tag was added to a tweet, other conference attendees would be able to see the tweet in the Twitter stream. To watch the Twitter stream, attendees visited http://search.twitter.com and searched for #cit09. Here’s a direct link you can use to visit the feed, and click back through the pages of results to read all of the comments and conversation(s).

If you started using Twitter at the Showcase, or already use it, follow DukeCIT for our most recent updates and info. Also keep your eye on the Showcase website, which we’ll be updating very soon with more video, images, and other content from the Showcase.

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