Following the FTI last May, I focused my Twitter account on feeds relevant to my professional life. I am still trying to figure out exactly what “professional” in this context means — right now, basically it means, “Stuff I like reading on Twitter while I’m at work.” Here are some “people” I follow:
- Where I work: @CofC and @TLTcofc
- The Chronicle of Higher Education: @chronicle
- Local weather: @chswx
- Various famous people: @Pogue, @SteveMirsky, @michaelshermer, @neiltyson, @JohnAllenPaulos, @MarsCuriosity, @TheScienceGuy
- Some great news columns: @sciam, @HuffPostCollege, @steminist
- Apps I use regularly (mostly on my iPad): @GoodNotesApp, @Wolfram_Alpha, @Dropbox, @geogebra
- A bunch of friends across the world
But the most useful part of Twitter has been connecting with other math professors and math educators. I’ve found out about really fantastic resources from them, and I have no idea how I’d ever learn about things without them.
- Really helpful people: @ProfNoodlearms, @MattBoelkins, @mathhombre, @derekbruff, @divbyzero, @RobertTalbert, @LukeSelfwalker, @lpudwell, and others too!
Great things I learned about via Twitter:
- The open-source graphing plotter “Graph”: http://www.padowan.dk/
- This open-source, free, activity-based calculus book: http://opencalculus.wordpress.com/
- How to do Origami in Geogebra: http://www.geogebratube.org/material/show/id/883
- Why we need more women math majors: http://kinlin.com/blog/2012/09/why-we-need-more-women-math-majors/
- The Wolfram|Alpha Chrome extension: http://wolframalpha.tumblr.com/post/33907023300/download-the-wolfram-alpha-chrome-extension
- The QAMA Calculator that now sits on my desk: http://qamacalculator.com/
- Everything written in Casting Out 9s is fantastic: http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/castingoutnines/
- GVSU’s Screencast channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/GVSUmath/videos?view=1