Job. Twitter-backgrounds. How to SEO on Twitter: Keywords Keywords Keywords. 25 ways to teach with Twitter by Sonja Cole. 6/4/2009 By: Twitter can feel like a strange new landscape when you first jump in. It is not always clear what its professional uses are, or what to post in 140 characters or less. But when you start to think of Twitter as a micro-blog (and not just a forum for the personal minutiae of people’s daily lives), you will find that Twitter can be a valuable tool for professional development. Here are 25 ways that teachers can use Twitter to ask for help, get lesson plan ideas, book and professional resource recommendations, connect with other professionals, and even host an online book club. First, a guide to Twitter shorthand. @username: creates a link to that user in your post.RT: Retweet, to copy someone else's post in a new update. 1) Ask for recommended books, lesson ideas, or teaching tools.Sample tweet: Can anyone share their successful SMART board lessons for 2nd grade?
2) Be sure to thank the people who respond.Sample tweet: @RickToone @evelynsaenz Very cool digital stories! Twellow :: Twitter Directory, Twitter Search, & Twitter Yellow Pages. HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Twitter #Hashtags.
One of the most complex features of Twitter for new users to understand is the hashtag, a topic with a hash symbol ("#") at the start to identify it. Twitter hashtags like #followfriday help spread information on Twitter while also helping to organize it. The hashtag is a favorite tool of conferences and event organizers, but it's also a way for Twitter users to organize themselves: if everyone agrees to append a certain hashtag to tweets about a topic, it becomes easier to find that topic in search, and more likely the topic will appear in Twitter's Trending Topics. So how do you disseminate and make sense of all this hashtag madness?
By going through the art of the hashtag step-by-step, of course. This short guide details how to identify, track, use, and organize hashtags in an efficient and useful way. Just be sure not to flaunt your new hashtag wisdom. Have a tip to share on hashtags or a unique way you utilize them? 1. What the Trend? 2. What's buzzing on Twitter right now? 3. 4. Twitter Tweets for Higher Education.
I love Twitter.com. I usually post a couple of items a day, on average, and tend to follow and interact others who also post in a moderate fashion. Some people post dozens of twits a day and use Twitter as a kind of instant messaging client. I see, and use it, more as a mini-blog. When I click on my name, I see all my posts, which is a sort of summary of things that I do and think about that I want to share with others. For the uninitiated, Twitter limits you to 140 characters and spaces per post (or per "tweet").
I actually had not considered it as a tool for education until I saw a link posted by Twittown to a blog post on that subject. 1- Using Twitter with your students on Doug Belshaw's teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk blog - emphasizes secondary education. I think Twitter could be ideal for reminding students about homework, trips and such things, especially as they can enter their mobile phone number to be alerted when one of their ‘friends’ updates their account. People helping people through Twitter - Twithelp™ The Top 50 Educators on Twitter to Follow in 2010. With the tough economic times of today and unemployment rates spiking across the world, there are scores of people making education their number one resolution for the New Year.
With this in mind, we wanted to create a list of educators who are utilizing Twitter to help others reach their educational goals. We have spent hours scouring over our followers at twitter.com/onlinecourse. We've examined over a thousand candidates, looking at their tweets, followers, interaction with users, the length their account has been active, the quality of the sites they link to, and even the general appeal of their tweets.
And, after careful consideration we have compiled this list of the Top 50 Educators on Twitter who have made strides not only in social media, but in the classroom as well. The tweets from these educators are encouraging and provide a wide swath of resources that can help you accomplish your education resolutions this year. # Of Tweets: 351Followers: 12,364 Following: 889. Twitter: sano se lyhyesti. A Framework for Teaching with Twitter. Faculty are increasingly experimenting with social media, and it’s exciting to find more and more courses incorporating Twitter, a ProfHacker favorite. Just last week on ProfHacker Ryan provided an excellent introduction to Twitter, while earlier in the summer Brian reflected on his use of Twitter in the classroom during Spring 2010.
As we gear up for the Fall 2010 semester, I wanted to revisit the idea of teaching with Twitter. I’ll address my own pedagogical use of Twitter in a future ProfHacker post, but for today I want to share a general framework for Twitter adoption in the classroom, originally sketched out in late August 2009 by Rick Reo. Rick is an instructional designer at George Mason University, and he’d been keeping tabs on the different ways instructors were using Twitter in their teaching. Rick sent a draft of this adoption matrix to the university’s Teaching with Technology listserv, and I soon began trying to situate my own Twitter use on the chart.
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