List of Favorite Twitter Blog Posts « Onlinesapiens Blog. Twitter: I don't get it. I have seen several mentions of Twitter in blogposts, but kind of assumed it was something along the lines of Explode, which I have already joined and occasionally use (although more often than the stats on my blog-widget would indicate!) So I didn't pay it much attention. Then Vicki Davis prodded me to join, and since I have a great deal of respect for her, I thought I'd look into it. I duly joined, and entered 5 updates. But I can't see what else a person is supposed to do there. I seem to have acquired a friend - possibly the person who is behind Twitter (I can't connect to it today to check, but his name seemed familiar).
I can't see for the life of me how to connect with people I know who already part of the network. I was feeling somewhat inadequate, until I saw this from Stephen Downes today. There is a song that opens with the line "There must be more than this... " Anyone care to enlighten me? Mentoring Graduate Students Through Social Media, or How I Made it Through the Last 5 Years.
After Amy recently wrote about how social media led her to Prof. Hacker, I was reminded that social media led me to graduate school in the first place. Without a doubt, I would not have started graduate school—nor would I be finishing, I don’t think—without social networking. In this post I will talk about what social networking has meant to me, from the perspective of a graduate student.
The title of this post is “Mentoring Graduate Students Through Social Media” not because it’s a how-to for faculty, but because for me social media has been my default method of receiving mentoring. If you’re reading this as a faculty member and you have a presence online, please recognize that you are probably mentoring students without even knowing it.
For my fellow graduate students, recognize that there are plenty of faculty out there who have something to teach you. I am (and always have been) a non-traditional student. I learned a lot through observation. Microblogging. Fceblog. Twitter for twits? Like I Need an Excuse be Twittering- now to climb the Tweeterboard » CogDogBlog. Of course I find the coolest of new stuff in my twitter stream, like from Dean Shareski just know came a link to Tweeterboard- a site that provides analytics on tweeters, their activity, what they are linking to, etc. Tweeterboard is a way of looking at who is influential on Twitter based on their conversations with other Twitter users. There are other services, like Twitterposter, that base influence on how many followers you have. Tweeterboard looks at who talks to you.Tweeterboard also captures links posted to Twitter to generate a list of the most popular links.Reputation points are the way influence is measured in Tweeterboard.
They’re calculated using some algorithmic mojo that resembles the link analysis algorithms used by search engines. Your reputation points are based on the conversations you’ve had over the last 28 days, which means your score can jump around a lot. The bad things is now I know this is out there. Will I compulsively check for my score? In a way it does. Edutwitter. 50+ Ways to Search Twitter. eLearning Technology. 140 Character Conference. How Twitter works in theory. It is said that an economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders whether it works in theory. Twitter clearly works in practice - and if you want practical advice, watch Laura Fitton's Tech talk at Google, or read her Twitter for Dummies.
I've learned a lot from talking to her and others about this phenomenon, and I wanted to write about some theories that help me understand it. Flow At it heart Twitter is a flow - it doesn't present an unread count of messages, just a list of recent ones, so you don't have email's inbox problem - the implicit pressure to turn bold things plain and get that unread number down. Instead, you can dip in and out of it, when you have time, and what you see is notes from people you care about. Faces Indeed, what you see are the faces of people you know with the notes they wrote next to them. Phatic The key to Twitter is that it is phatic - full of social gestures that are like apes grooming each other. Following Publics Mutual media.
Twazzup: Busca y encuentra en twitter. Brasst's twitter Bookmarks on Delicious. Twitter for Teachers: Home - Twitter for Teachers. How to add Twitter (Retweet) Button to Every Blogger Posts | Solid Blogger. Digg There a lots of ways and platforms to promote your blog in order to get traffic. But the first blog promotion starts from your blog posts itself. You should design your posts with all necessary blogger social bookmarking icons , so that people can spread it’s reach using different web services.
There are different buttons that you can use on your blogger posts like Digg, Yahoo! Buzz, StumbleUpon, Mixx, Twitter etc. Here I’m going to show you the tutorial to . If someone likes your post, he can click on the Retweet button to post the topic with it’s URL in his twitter account and all his followers would get notified about this. Login to your blogger dashboard . Navigate to >> >> Search for and paste the following codes just before or after it. For Digg like Button, use the following code. For Compact sized button, use these codes. Now if you want align it to the right, use the above code in the following way. You are done now. Related posts: How To Add Yahoo Smileys In Blogger Posts. A Teacher’s Guide to Twitter « Once a Teacher…. Twitter is apart of my life almost every day because: - It’s a great source of news. - There are rich conversations among educators and edtech people. - People post entertaining, interesting, and very useful links. - I enjoy the easy interaction with others from around the world.
Most people start off in a rocky relationship with Twitter. It doesn’t seem to be as easy or as useful as everyone has said, it takes awhile before you find your niche, and there is an overwhelming amount of information to deal with. But, just hang on – it’ll be worth it!!! This is a guide to help teachers, or anyone for that matter, have a smoother and more enjoyable experience. Getting Started Managing your Life on Twitter Finding People to Follow This can be the biggest challenge at first. Not Getting Overwhelmed You’ll hear people talking about the Twitter “stream”. Tweeting You’re limited to 140 characters, but this seems to do the trick. Other Ins and Outs @replies This stands for Direct Messages.
Like this: What do you use Twitter for? | Media. WeFollow: A User Powered Twitter Directory. 8 Excellent Tools to Extract Insights from Twitter Streams. Twitter is now the third most popular social network, behind Facebook and MySpace (Compete, 2009). A year ago, it has over a million users and 200,000 active monthly users sending over 3 million updates per day (TechCrunch, 2008). Those figures have almost certainly increased since then. With the torrential streams of Twitter updates (or tweets), there's an emerging demand to sieve signals from noises and harvest useful information. Enter Twitter Analytics, Twitter Analysis, or simply just Analytwits (in the tradition of Twitter slang). These analytics tools are growing in numbers; even Twitter is developing them. Besides Twitter Search, the following 8 Analytwits are some of the more useful web applications to analyze Twitter streams. 8 Great Tools for Social (Twit)telligence TWITALYZER provides activities analysis of any Twitter user, based on social media success yardsticks.
MICROPLAZA offers an interesting way to make sense of your Twitter streams. TwitterSheep. Power Twitter :: Firefox Add-ons. PeopleBrowsr. FrontPage. Advice for Teachers New To Twitter. Each day several new people start following me on Twitter. As I click through each profile, I make a decision whether or not to follow these people back. I generally follow all teachers back and will sometimes follow others depending upon what they do and the kinds of things they share on Twitter. As I was going through new followers on Saturday night, it occurred to me to Tweet some basic suggestions for teachers new to Twitter. The first 3 are really essential to building your network of followers. Go to settings and fill out your Bio! This is essential to getting followers.Tweet a few things - share a link, an idea, a resource, a blog post, anything.Don't protect your updates.
People often hesitate to follow back if they can't see your tweets.Use your real name and your real picture. I also asked others to share their suggestions. Mr. Tweet -> Your Personal Networking Assistant! How We Twitter « Writerly Advice. I’ve invited you to experiment with Twitter to give you practice in using English, to introduce the use of enhanced group communications for learning, to help prepare you for the rich and demanding communications contexts you will likely confront in the workplace, and because Twitter can help build supportive community and is fun! Many of you have responded vigorously and well, and it has been just wonderful to see all that English being put to good use! As we discussed in some detail last week, and which I will review here, you have been using Twitter to ask and answer questions, to offer observations and express feelings, to respond to the observations and feelings of others, to share sources and links, to plan and organize activities, and to comment on all of the above.
I’m also writing this up for my other friends in the e-learning business as I think what you are doing is exemplary and will offer them a helpful case study. How You Might Evaluate Your Twitter Use Twitter for Life. Monitter : real time, live twitter monitor | free live twitter embed widget. TwitterFriends - Your relevant network on Twitter.
Twitter, an Invaluable Resource « Music Tech for Teachers. You don’t know what you are missing if you haven’t “tweeted” someone. I just attended a huge conference for the last week. My friend and coworker was emphatic that I set up a blog and use my twitter account while I was there. I have had a twitter account for several months but hardly ever turn it on because it just seemed to be an annoying distraction.
However, I figured I would try using it at my conference. There were more than 20,000 people in attendance. The first day I faithfully logged on and entered some interesting facts about the day on my blog. The conference itself (it was also a tradeshow at the same time) was held in a huge facility around the size of 20 football fields. Connecting it to my blog was definitely the key. Without it I would not have been able to be introduced to several great new contacts in my field that I can now call a friend. I will have to see if I will have the same results when I am back into my regular routine.
Like this: Like Loading... Twitter Tips - TwiTip. 2 : Web. Twitter Handbook — How good people make BIG things happen - FAST! TwitStamp :: Show Everyone That You're a Twitaholic. About 12seconds | 12seconds.tv (alpha) Twitter Adds Threaded Replies; Complicates Developers’ Lives. Twitter today stealthily announced that the vestigal feature in the developer API that allowed for threading of conversations had been turned on. Jesse Stay had the eagle eyes that spotted the message on Twitter's developer's mailing list, and guest blogged it over at LouisGray.com: I'm happy to announce a minor change to the API that should have a major impact on the Twitter community.
The /statuses/update method now takes an optional parameter: in_reply_to_status_id. As you might guess, this allows API clients to specify which status a status to be posted is in reply to, rather than our system assuming that it's in reply to the last message posted by the user specified by "@username".If your client posts statuses, please consider making use of this feature. As was noted by several commenters on the various write-ups around the web, this is going to be particularly tricky to code on the API application side, and likely wasn't too terribly difficult for Twitter to implement. Twubble. TweetWheel - Find out which of your Twitter friends know each other! Easy Tweets - The Multi Account Microblogging Platform. Tweenky Brings Gmail’s Good Looks To Twitter. Twitter may be experimenting with a new design, but even its new interface still leaves something to be desired. Tweenky, a new mashup that launched in private beta last week, is looking to offer Twitter users an alternative.
The site sports an AJAX-heavy design that borrows heavily from Gmail (which isn’t a bad thing), and integrates a number of features that should appeal to Twitter powerusers. To get one of 200 invites, go here and enter the word “techcrunch” as the invite code. Users send new tweets from a form at the top of the page that includes integration with link-shortening sites snipurl.com and is.gd. Tweenky isn’t doing anything revolutionary – all of its features are available elsewhere, either from twitter.com or TwitterSpy, which also provides Twitter’s lost tracking feature.
Bridge to Learning » Blog Archive » Twittering about knowledge. We will broadcast from Berlin on the 5th and the 6th of December. Both times it will start at 11.00 CET and will go on for about 40 minutes. Open online STEM conference The Global 2013 STEMx Education Conference claims to be the world’s first massively open online conference for educators focusing on Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and more.
The conference is being held over the course of three days, September 19-21, 2013, and is free to attend! STEMxCon is a highly inclusive event designed to engage students and educators around the globe and we encourage primary, secondary, and tertiary (K-16) educators around the world to share and learn about innovative approaches to STEMx learning and teaching. To find out about different sessions and to login to events go to Open Badges A new nationwide Open Badges initiative has been launched by DigitalMe in the UK. You can find more information on the DigitalMe web site.
Twitter feed MOOCs and beyond. On the danger of twitter - D'Arcy Norman dot net. Matt - Multi Account Twitter Tweeter - Brought to you by Carsonified!