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Most councils allow employees to access social media compared with only a third two years ago, research by Socitm indicates. All employees potentially have access to Twitter in 44% of councils and some of them in 54%, with only 2% offering no access, according to the findings. The findings come from two identical surveys carried out in January 2012, one with chief information officers, heads of ICT and equivalent and a second with web, communications, customer services, service and policy managers. A similar survey published in 2010 was limited to IT managers, however.
uncils open access to Twitter | Guardian Government Computing | Guardian Professional
Some searchers may have found this post when searching for ‘ how to find your Twitter RSS feed url ‘ or ‘how to find my Twitter timeline’ . These are one in the same. If you wish to find your Twitter Profile ID number, go to: http://idfromuser.org/ and type in your Twitter account name. Mine is: glenwoodfin. If the site above is down, which it is from time to time, I suggest you try: http://www.idfromuser.com/ as an alternative to find your Twitter profile id number. When the sites don’t seem to be working, instead of trying to figure out your numerical id, just use your Twitter profile name instead since it gives you an rss feed with the same content:
How to Find Your Twitter RSS Feed & Profile ID Number | Online Reputation Management
The Ultimate Twitter Guidebook For Teachers | Edudemic
Adopting a new communication tool is not easy. Figuring out the best way YOU can use Twitter is even harder. Luckily you are not going it alone.
Last week I introduced a pedagogical framework for using Twitter in your teaching, organized along two axes: monologic to dialogic and passive to active. These high-falutin terms are fine for a theoretical matrix, but what about the real life implementation of Twitter in and outside of your classroom? How do you actually do it?
Practical Advice for Teaching with Twitter - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Pop quiz: What’s the capital of Texas? It used to be that if you heard this question in your history class at school, you’d raise your hand to get the teacher’s attention and then answer the question (assuming you knew the answer). These days, however, it’s becoming increasingly common for students to use social media tools like Twitter to chat with their teachers, each other, and even the rest of the world as part of their instruction. Every era has had its technical advances in the field of education .
3 Creative Ways Educators Use Twitter
Ever wanted to make presentations a more interactive, Web 2.0 experience? The PowerPoint Twitter Tools prototypes are now available. Created using SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius (but requiring only PowerPoint for Windows and Adobe Flash to run), the twitter tools allow presenters to see and react to tweets in real-time, embedded directly within their presentations, either as a ticker or refreshable comment page.
FREE PowerPoint Twitter Tools | SAP Web 2.0
Twitter chats are such a great way to stay connected and informed in your professional circle , and education is no exception. Through education chats, you can find out about new methods for teaching, tech resources, even jobs for teachers. Most chats are held weekly, and offer an opportunity to have a regularly scheduled conversation with like-minded educators. Check out our collection to find a wealth of Twitter chats that are great for all kinds of educators. General These Twitter chats cover anything and everything in education, and represent a great jumping off point for those just getting started in Twitter education chats.
20 Terrific Twitter Chats for Every Kind of Educator - Online Colleges
LSE produces new Twitter guide for academics - 10 - 2011 - News archive - News - News and media - Home
How can Twitter, which limits users to 140 characters per tweet, have any relevance to universities and academia, where journal articles are between 3,000-8,000 words long? Can anything of academic value ever be said in just 140 characters? A new Twitter guide published by the LSE Public Policy Group | and the LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog | seeks to answer this question, and show academics and researchers how to get the most out of the micro-blogging site. The Guide is designed to lead the novice through the basics of Twitter but also provide tips on how it can aid the teaching and research of the more experienced academic tweeter. Suggestions for tweeting academics include, adopting different styles – from 'substantive' to 'conversational' – to match the content and intended audience; crowd-sourcing research activities, such as getting followers to gather information or analyse data, and setting up different feeds to provide targeted guidance and feedback for each taught class.
One of the best ways to stay up-to-date on the latest in education (other than a free subscription to the SimpleK12 blog ) is to follow hashtags on Twitter. Before we get into which hashtags to watch, let's look at what they are. Hashtags (#) are basically keywords for a tweet. Depending on the content of your tweet, you can use different hashtags so other teachers looking for similar content can find your tweet. For example, if I just found a new online resource for teachers, I might tweet about it and add the #edtech hashtag on the end so other teachers looking for educational technology can see it. So now that you know what hashtags are, which ones should you watch?
Top Ten Twitter Hashtags for Educators – SimpleK12
Where Should we take this eBook? The pages of this site have recently been re-organized. If you have suggestions for new content, for rearranging the content, or would like to contribute, we'd love to have you join us! How would you like to co-author an e-book to teach educators about Twitter ? For information on how you can participate in this project, visit the How to Contribute page.
Twitter for Teachers: Home - Twitter for Teachers
How can Twitter, which limits users to 140 characters per tweet, have any relevance to universities and academia, where journal articles are between 3,000-8,000 words long? Can anything of academic value ever be said in just 140 characters? A new Twitter guide published by the LSE Public Policy Group | and the LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog | seeks to answer this question, and show academics and researchers how to get the most out of the micro-blogging site. The Guide is designed to lead the novice through the basics of Twitter but also provide tips on how it can aid the teaching and research of the more experienced academic tweeter. Suggestions for tweeting academics include, adopting different styles – from 'substantive' to 'conversational' – to match the content and intended audience; crowd-sourcing research activities, such as getting followers to gather information or analyse data, and setting up different feeds to provide targeted guidance and feedback for each taught class.
LSE produces new Twitter guide for academics - 10 - 2011 - News archive - News - News and media - Home
Social media offers some great opportunities for learning in the classroom, bringing together the ability to collaborate, access worldwide resources, and find new and interesting ways to communicate in one easily accessible place. Teachers around the world have found innovative ways to use Twitter as a teaching tool, and we’ve shared many of these great ideas here with you. Read on, and we’ll explore 60 inspiring ways that teachers and students can put Twitter to work in the classroom. Twitter makes staying in touch and sharing announcements super simple and even fun. These ideas offer a great way to put the tool to good use. Twitter as a bulletin board : Jim Newman at Northern Illinois University uses Twitter as a bulletin board for his class, letting students know about last minute news like canceled classes.
60 Inspiring Examples of Twitter in the Classroom | Online Universities
File under “knew it was coming but still worth noting”: Twitter has finally launched a self-serve option for its ad platform. It’s still just in test mode, and only open to a handful of advertisers. But those who can use it can now buy ads directly via Twitter, using a credit card and a Web browser, without ever having to talk to a human being. Right now buyers can only purchase some of Twitter’s ad products — specifically “promoted accounts” and “promoted tweets” — but Twitter says that will expand over time, as it rolls out self-serve to more buyers. This is a step that Twitter has been talking about for a long time — so long that it has had to argue with reporters who swear they saw one nearly a year ago — so it’s not earth-shaking stuff. Yesterday, for instance, when Twitter ad sales head Adam Bain disclosed it onstage during an interview at Business Insider’s Ignition conference, it didn’t seem to register.
Twitter Quietly Launches Self-Serve Ads - Peter Kafka - News - AllThingsD
This twitter thing, it'll not catch on I got asked this week to do some work with an FE college on formulating a Social Media policy, including how the college is going to use Twitter. As I was thinking about this I started to reflect on my own use of twitter over the years. I do find twitter incredibly useful, and addictive, and indulgent, all at once.
Quick Guide to using Twitter for Educators | Education, Teaching, Technology
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