25 top ways teachers use Twitter in the classro... 25 top ways teachers use Twitter in the classro... How important is Twitter in your Personal Learning Network? Twitter and the Personal Learning Network (PLN). If you are a connected educator, chances are that you have often seen these two terms used together and, perhaps like me, you have wondered what's the connection? This question formed the basis of my 2011 Masters thesis and while my research showed that you can have a PLN without Twitter (and, indeed, those non-Twitter spaces are important for a well developed PLN), Twitter does play a unique role within a PLN, which makes it a powerful platform for networked learning and professional development [1]. Literature Review Twitter is a free service that is part microblogging platform and part social network, which allows users to send and receive short, 140 character messages [2].
A PLN is an informal learning network of people you connect with for the specific purpose of learning, based on reciprocity and a level of trust that each party is actively seeking value added information for the other [10, 11]. Methodology Results Conclusion References. 10 Free Web 2.0 Tools And How To Easily Use Them In Your Classroom. Earlier this week I had the opportunity to attend the first Ozarks Education Research Initiative (OERI) Teacher Technology Conference at Willard High School (MO). The learning sessions I attended were all very good and I am going to share 10 of the FREE tools I learned about below. I will be incorporating them into how I teach and hopefully by using these tools during faculty meetings, PD sessions, and other opportunities as they arise, this will help us all to find ways to incorporate them into the classroom to engage our students even more. This quote from last week has stuck with me ever since it was spoken – “Date the tool.
Marry the idea.” I don’t recall who this is attributed to, but it resonates with me still. Engagement is key! Twitter summary of OERI Teacher Technology Conference at Willard High School on May 30, 2012 via Storify This is a summary of the tweets sent out during the conference. Socrative This link takes you to their website. Today’s Meet by Allison Pilley @ajpilley. Twitter’s “Bots” Problem: Time for Twitter to Take Ownership and Declare War on Spammers! » Social Media Lab. Top 10 Educational Technology Hashtags for Educators. Twitter is a real treasure trove of educational resources for teachers and educators. It is one of my favourite web tools to stay updated about what is going on in the field of educational technology. It goes without saying that everyone of you has got a Twitter account but the question is do you really benefit from Twitter as should be ?
By implication, my question is referring to educational and professional development benefits. Yes you might be following hundreds of bloggers and educators ; yet still unable to sift through the tsunami of tweets you have everyday.Tweeting is an art which you should master and the key to the mastery of this art is hashtags. Hashtag is a great way for users to locate and keep track of particular information within the massive tweets. Know the topic you are interested in and look for its corresponding hashtag and try to continually check it for updates. This is the established way Twitter experts use to fish for new updates in their fields of interest. Over 100 ideas for using Twitter in the Classroom (Revised 6/3/12)
How to Use Hashtags on Twitter: A Simple Guide for Marketers. Every time we host live webinars (and as this long list suggests, that is quite often), quite a few attendees get confused about what to do with the hashtag we provide. What is it? What does it do? How do you create one? Let me explain! What is a hashtag? A Twitter hashtag is simply a keyword phrase, spelled out without spaces, with a pound sign (#) in front of it. What does a hashtag do? A Twitter hashtag ties the conversations of different users into one stream, which you can find by searching the hastag in Twitter Search or by using a third-party monitoring tool such as HootSuite. So, if Twitter users who are not otherwise connected talk about the same topic using a specific hashtag, their tweets will appear in the same stream. Hashtags are great for centralizing conversations around live, in-person events or conferences, live webinars, or other marketing campaigns you're running.
How do you create a hashtag? Contrary to what you might think, you don’t need any tools to create a hashtag. Sebastian Matthes: Besser twittern: Eine Studie zeigt, welche Tweets wirklich ankommen « ungedruckt. Das Internet quillt über von Tipps und Ratschlägen, wie sich lesenswerte Twitter-Kanäle gestalten lassen. Doch die Aussagekraft solcher Artikel ist oft (mindestens) dürftig. Vor allem deshalb,weil bislang kaum jemand wirklich untersucht hat, welche Tweets die Leser wirklich schätzen. Die Hinweise sind daher meist nur mehr oder weniger hilfreiche Anekdoten der Autoren. Damit wollte sich eine Gruppe junger US-Wissenschaftler nicht abfinden. Paul André von Carnegie Mellon, Michael Bernstein vom MIT und Kurt Luther von Georgia Institute of Technology haben ein Jahr lang Twitter-Daten ausgewertet, Zehntausende Tweets analysiert und 1400 Nutzer gefragt, welche Art von Kurznachrichten sie schätzen und bei welchen sie abschalten.
Und so haben die Ergebnisse ihrer datengetriebenen Twitter-Studie “Who Gives a Tweet: Evaluating Microblog Content Value” weit mehr als nur anekdotische Evidenz. Demnach akzeptieren Twitter-Nutzer erstaunlich viel langweiliges Zeug in ihrer Timeline. Mehr zum Thema: Twitter. Kurznachrichtendienst: Twitter will sich als Nachrichtenquelle etablieren - Nachrichten Wirtschaft - Webwelt & Technik.
Artikel per E-Mail empfehlen Twitter will sich als Nachrichtenquelle etablieren Der Kurznachrichtendienst verändert seine Optik: Twitter verpasst sich ein neues Design und möchte als Nachrichtenmedium ernst genommen werden. Lange Zeit wurde Twitter als ärgster Konkurrent von Platzhirsch Facebook gehandelt. Der Kurznachrichtendienst erlebte in den vergangenen Jahren einen schnellen Aufstieg. Schätzungen zufolge könnte Twitter in diesem Februar die 500-Millionen-Mitglieder-Marke knacken.
Doch das Unternehmen hat ein Problem: die Karteileichen – also Nutzer, die sich zwar bei Twitter anmelden, danach aber kaum etwas zum Netzwerk beitragen. Statt eigene Meldungen zu schreiben, abonnieren diese Mitglieder lediglich die Tweets von anderen Nutzern, die sie interessieren. Infokanal statt klassische Community Das Nutzerverhalten blieb natürlich auch den Twitter-Managern nicht verborgen. Foto: Computer BildComputer Bild Werbung weiterhin zurückhaltend Mehr zum Thema: Ratgeber: Communitys im Internet.