Are there any MACUL Plurkers?

[Matt Schwartz]

I just learned about Plurk. It seems to be like a fancy Twitter. There is a learning curve but I am taking a liking to it.

I'm at:
http://www.plurk.com/mrschwartz

Just wanted to see if anyone else was using Plurk and what they think of it.

[James Stewart]

Hi Matt, I've been plurking for a year now. It is easier to follow discussion threads compared to Twitter. I post to both using Ping.fm.

I find I get more responses on Plurk, maybe because everyone is using Twitter. Maybe that will change when Oprah starts Plurking. You can find me at http://www.plurk.com/jstew

Another thing, you get this thing called Karma on plurk the more you use it. I guess it is their way to hook you.

[Bob Smitka]

So far, I feel like I've been using Plurk more than twitter...a little more personalized I think. This may be a great utility for educators to communicate with each other, but anyone have any ideas how we could utilize this in the classroom; especially with how filtered and restricted the internet is at many schools? Daily updates to students/parents? Anything else?

[Matt Schwartz]

For myself, I find that I like Plurk better than twitter. I really like the user interface with Plurk. The time line feature is really cool.

The real question will be, is Plurk blocked by the filter at school? A lot of sites I have learned about are great but blocked at school where I spend most of my time online. All blogs are blocked which is sad. Our tech director just retired and our one other tech guy is kind of running things right now. Don't know when we will hire a new tech director. The guy running things believes we need to open so sites up for teachers to use. If we want teachers to use technology we need to open that technology up to them.

[Joe Rohrhoff]

I know without even looking that it will be blocked at the school I teach at. Its sad to see many sites that could be used to enhance education are unavailable.

[Michael Barbour]

Joe, you should check on Emodo. It is a microblogging site like Twitter and Plurk that is created only for K-12 students and educators (in much the same way Edublogs is). School districts that I have worked with have been more willing to unblock Emodo for that reason (or not have it blocked in the first place).

[Joe Rohrhoff]

I am in the same boat as you. I have never used Twitter or Plurk. People say that it can become addicting. I'm not addicted yet but we'll see what happens over the course of this semester.

I haven't plurked much yet, but plan on making it a daily or semi daily event for me. You can follow me at http://www.plurk.com/joerohrhoff.

[Michael Barbour]

My plurk is available at http://www.plurk.com/mkbwsu and like James, I use ping.fm to hit both Twitter and Plurk with all of my entries.

[KJ]

I am finding that while I don't Plurk or Twitter quite that much, I can see students quickly becoming addicted to Plurk.com and would probably have some pretty creative uses for it. I am curious to see their thoughts on it once the school year starts back up.
However, like many of you I am sure it would be blocked at the moment in my district. The good thing is that our tech department carries a lot of clout, so if I could convince them of a great use for it, they may allow it. I will have to see.

[Rosemary West-Bowlson]

Thanks, I was wondering how you did that. It certainly saves a lot of time. Did you do the same thing with face book?

[Pam Shoemaker]

I've come to like and use Plurk more than Twitter of late. I like the ease of following threads on Plurk. My userid is shoemap.

[Matt Schwartz]

Me too. I like how you can catch up with Plurks while you were not online.

[Karen Bosch]

I am on plurk - my name is karlyb. I use both plurk and twitter. I like plurk for the conversations, plus it is just fun! I need to check for all these MACUL plurkers, thanks!