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Intro, nature of the community, patterns of use


== Organization ==
Asynchronous following structure, chats, lists, ill-defined boundaries


== Communities on General-Purpose Services ==
=== The MathTwitterBlogoSphere ===
Social media services like Facebook and Twitter are general-purpose tools and not built specifically around or for professional communities. However, their increasing ubiquity amongst the general public provides the mathematics teachers and educators who use them increased opportunities to find and interact with each other online. Some of these services, like Facebook and LinkedIn, require or default to a synchronous follower model, meaning two people only see each others' content if they mutually follow each other. Other services, like Twitter and Google+, require or default to an asynchronous follower model, where a user can follow another and see their content without being followed back.
Origins, Explore MTBoS, TMC, presentations and promotional efforts


=== Facebook ===
== Use at Conferences ==
Twitter's real-time, chronological nature makes it ideal for following an ongoing event like an educational conference. [Say more, include reports/stats from prior conferences]


=== Google+ ===
== Twitter Hashtags ==
Google+ (pronounced and sometimes written as "Google Plus") was launched in late June of 2011 and offers asynchronous following, threaded conversations, public and private posting, public and private "Communities," and integration with other Google services like Blogger and Hangouts. In mathematics education, Google+ has shown to be popular with a small number of mathematics education researchers, most of whom share privately about their research, writing, and life as academics. Google+ is also popular amongst a number of academic mathematicians, many of whom take interest in issues of mathematics education. The greatest public mathematics education activity on Google+ is found in the [https://plus.google.com/communities/106364254296651187923 Mathematics Education (K-12)] community, which is owned by [[Josh Fisher]] and has more than 9500 members as of May 2015. A second, smaller, and more specialized community is the [https://plus.google.com/communities/104846032595782747037 Mathematics Education Research] community, owned by [[Reidar Mosvold]]. The [https://plus.google.com/communities/107762594334871181831 Inquiry-Based Learning in Mathematics] community, owned by [[Dana Ernst]] and moderated by [[Theron Hitchman]], focuses mostly on student-centered mathematics education at the undergraduate level.
Hashtags (named for the use of the #, or "hash" symbol) are commonly used on Twitter to make it easier for users to find messages related to a specific theme, content, or event. They were first suggested by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Messina_(open_source_advocate) Chris Messina] in 2007 and inspired by the use of channels on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat IRC networks]. As hashtag use evolved, Twitter adopted them into the service by making them links that trigger a Twitter search, making it easier to follow a hashtag that signifies an ongoing conversation without the need to follow all the users contributing to that conversation. Users often use hashtags informally to express some context or feeling about their tweet without trying to label that tweet as part of a larger, ongoing conversation. For example, math teachers may use the hashtag "[https://twitter.com/hashtag/nguyening?src=hash #nguyening]" as a play on the hashtag "#winning" but named for the Twitter-using math teacher [[Fawn Nguyen]].


=== LinkedIn ===
=== Chats ===
* #SlowMathChat -
* #MathChat -
* #probchat  prob=problems, not probability!
* #iledchat
* #colchat
* #MSMathChat -
* #ElemMathChat -
* #Spedmath -
* #Edchat
* #Edtechchat
* #CCSSchat - Common Core State Standards Chat
* #educoach


=== Pinterest ===
=== Conferences and Events ===
* #NCTMBoston
* #ShadowCon
* #TMC15
* #PiDay


=== Twitter ===
=== Other Uses ===
''Main article: [[Mathematics educators on Twitter]]''
* #educolor (educators of color)
* #Stem
* #mathsTLP 
* #tmwyk - Talking math with your kids <---Did I solve this one on my own?
* #wcydwt
* #INB
* #dok
* #SBG, #SBAR


Twitter launched in July of 2006 and offers asynchronous following, a mostly chronological timeline (some conversations are pulled together in users' timelines to make them easier to follow), direct messaging, and relatively short posts limited to 140 characters. Originally described as a "microblogging" service, Twitter use for many has evolved into something more conversational as small groups chat back-and-forth and share links and pictures. This is widely true for mathematics teachers who regularly use Twitter to share and communicate. Some of these users refer to their community as the "MathTwitterBlogoSphere," or MTBoS. Twitter's key organizational feature is hashtags, and mathematics teachers on Twitter use them to organize "chats" (such as [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23mathchat #mathchat]) or to share during conferences or other events.
== Affordances and Constraints ==
 
=== Other ===
== Communities on Specialized Services  ==
 
=== AP Teacher Community ===
https://apcommunity.collegeboard.org/
 
=== Curriculum-Specific Communities ===
http://www.cpm.org/phpBB2/
 
=== Global Math Department ===
http://globalmathdepartment.org/
 
=== Jerry Becker ListServ ===
 
 
=== The Math Forum ===
http://mathforum.org/
 
=== Math Education Reddit ===
https://www.reddit.com/r/matheducation
 
=== Mathematics Educators Stack Exchange ===
http://matheducators.stackexchange.com/
 
=== The Mathematics Teaching Community ===
https://mathematicsteachingcommunity.math.uga.edu/

Revision as of 03:47, 19 May 2015

Intro, nature of the community, patterns of use

Organization

Asynchronous following structure, chats, lists, ill-defined boundaries

The MathTwitterBlogoSphere

Origins, Explore MTBoS, TMC, presentations and promotional efforts

Use at Conferences

Twitter's real-time, chronological nature makes it ideal for following an ongoing event like an educational conference. [Say more, include reports/stats from prior conferences]

Twitter Hashtags

Hashtags (named for the use of the #, or "hash" symbol) are commonly used on Twitter to make it easier for users to find messages related to a specific theme, content, or event. They were first suggested by Chris Messina in 2007 and inspired by the use of channels on IRC networks. As hashtag use evolved, Twitter adopted them into the service by making them links that trigger a Twitter search, making it easier to follow a hashtag that signifies an ongoing conversation without the need to follow all the users contributing to that conversation. Users often use hashtags informally to express some context or feeling about their tweet without trying to label that tweet as part of a larger, ongoing conversation. For example, math teachers may use the hashtag "#nguyening" as a play on the hashtag "#winning" but named for the Twitter-using math teacher Fawn Nguyen.

Chats

  • #SlowMathChat -
  • #MathChat -
  • #probchat prob=problems, not probability!
  • #iledchat
  • #colchat
  • #MSMathChat -
  • #ElemMathChat -
  • #Spedmath -
  • #Edchat
  • #Edtechchat
  • #CCSSchat - Common Core State Standards Chat
  • #educoach

Conferences and Events

  • #NCTMBoston
  • #ShadowCon
  • #TMC15
  • #PiDay

Other Uses

  • #educolor (educators of color)
  • #Stem
  • #mathsTLP
  • #tmwyk - Talking math with your kids <---Did I solve this one on my own?
  • #wcydwt
  • #INB
  • #dok
  • #SBG, #SBAR

Affordances and Constraints