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Twitter Workshop

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Some British Humor to get us started!

Welcome to this session on Twitter. I started using Twitter Spring 2010, very reluctantly, but have found it to be a fantastic source for Professional Learning!

Twitter!

Tool for Education

Live Social Media Statistics

Iowa Today

Twitter in Education-

Longfellow Elementary Twitter Page

HaveToRead Twitter Page

Twitter

Let's set up an account

-Create new account

-Check email and confirm

-Upload picture

-Enter bio info

-Settings

Twitter Tutorial

Changing/Customizing Backgrounds-

Following People-

-Follow 5-10 people you know. Find people who are thinking about the things you are thinking about.
-Listen in for a bit. Get a feel for the kind of things people share on Twitter.
-Comment back a few times. Respond to someone or retweet a tweet that you especially like.
-Try to tweet a few things a week. Practice getting your message to 140 characters.
-Pay attention to the people that you follow. Most likely, they are following people who have similar topics of interest. As they mention people or retweet other's messages, check that new person out. Is that someone you want to follow?
-Take one friend a day and go through the people they follow. Check out the profile. Look at the kinds of things they tweet about. Are there a few people on the list that you might want to follow? You could also check out the lists they have organized and you can follow some of those. Take advantage of the networking others have done in order to build your own network.

Ways to find People:

Building a PLN - Twitter All-Stars

Info from Free Technology for Teachers - VERY GOOD!

Creating Lists-

URL Shorteners-

HashTags (#)-

Definition: The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet. It was created organically by Twitter users as a way to categorize messages.

People use the hashtag symbol # before relevant keywords in their Tweet to categorize those Tweets to show more easily in Twitter Search.
Clicking on a hashtagged word in any message shows you all other Tweets in that category.
Hashtags can occur anywhere in the Tweet.
Hashtagged words that become very popular are often Trending Topics.

#FF is follow Friday

#edchat

#education

#ntchat (new teacher chat)

Ways to Manage-