Earlier today on twitter I was watching the river flow when I saw the following tweet by the great Bud Hunt:
My password is always 123456. #FiveWordEdTechHorrors
— Bud Hunt (@budtheteacher) December 11, 2013
I was intrigued, and figured what would my five word edtech horror story be. I came up with the folowing:
We blog in the LMS. #FiveWordEdTechHorrors — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) December 11, 2013
I was hooked, for the next 45 minutes or so I was having a ball reading and writing FiveWordEdtechHorrors on Twitter, it was pretty remarkable to follow that hashtag and watch hundreds of edtechs chime in from all over the place in order to palyfully have fun with their frustrations. A fun loving professional catharsis in the form of a hastag—it’s a beautiful thing. from what I understand Carl Hook just modified the trending #FiveWordTechHorrors, and a Twitter event was born.
@juliafallon @jimgroom @JudyGiering I just stole someone’s hashtag and ran with it. #FiveWordEdTechHorrors — Carl Hooker (@mrhooker) December 11, 2013
There were a ton of fun Tweets, I’ll include a few of my favorite below, but if you work in edtech, the stream is still going and it speaks to how creative and inspired a loosely distributed community can be if given the right prompt.
Workshop demanded. No one comes. #FiveWordEdTechHorrors
— Jim Groom (@jimgroom) December 11, 2013
The following Tweet by Martin Weller is an inside joke given that someone made this pronouncement at the MOOC Research confernece, but it made me bust out laughing nonetheless.
Content is the secret sauce #FiveWordEdTechHorrors — Martin Weller (@mweller) December 11, 2013
Bud Hunt was on fire…
Hey! This Wordle is terrific! #FiveWordEdTechHorrors — Bud Hunt (@budtheteacher) December 11, 2013
Got first round VC funding. #FiveWordEdTechHorrors — Bud Hunt (@budtheteacher) December 11, 2013
Can I borrow your dongle? #FiveWordEdTechHorrors — Bud Hunt (@budtheteacher) December 11, 2013
How can we forget MOOCs….
My provost heard about MOOCs #fivewordedtechhorrors — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) December 11, 2013
I always enjoy LMS bashing….
Our LMS doesn’t support that #FiveWordEdTechHorrors — Doug Symington (@dougsymington) December 11, 2013
But there was something for everyone!
I read a Freidman article. #FiveWordEdTechHorrors — Mike Caulfield (@holden) December 11, 2013
Techcrunch says it’ll disrupt education #FiveWordEdTechHorrors — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) December 11, 2013
So much fun, this made my semester. I really haven’t had a moment like this in a while on Twitter. Unexpected, but pure joy!
Update: Origins are always tricky, Frank Nochese seems to have been behind this madness 🙂
@jimgroom @clonghb Actually started here: https://t.co/KY64v8QMaR Glad you all took it and ran! I laughed so much today!
— Frank Noschese (@fnoschese) December 12, 2013
