Hashtags. Hashtags Introduction Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets.
They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag. Hashtags were developed as a means to create "groupings" on Twitter, without having to change the basic service. The hash symbol is a convention borrowed primarily from IRC channels, and later from Jaiku's channels. hashtags.org provides real-time tracking of Twitter hashtags. How To Use Hashtags Start using hashtags in your tweets, preceding key words. Finally, track other tweets on the subjects you're interested in (ie: those containing the appropriate hashtags) by browsing/searching at Hashtags.org, TwitterGroups, TweetChat, TweetGrid, Twitterfall, etc. Use of hashtags Chris Messina wrote up this use in his post on Twitter hashtags for emergency coordination and disaster relief. Suggestions and tips CamelCase Example uses. TwitterLearn French. Be part of the Radio Lingua Network’s latest project by contributing to our Word of the Day project!
Each day we’re publishing a word of the day on Twitter and Facebook and we’re inviting you to try using this word in a sentence. Whether you’ve just started learning the language, or you’re an experienced learner you’ll be able to try out your language skills using whichever word we’ve chosen for the day. For this first week of the project we’ve chosen words with a summery theme, and our Facebook friends and Twitter followers have posted their comments using these words.
We’ve featured our favourite posts in our audio review, providing some feedback on small mistakes made and, most importantly, sharing the learning experience with the entire Radio Lingua community. How to access the Word of the Day If you’re on Facebook, you can “like” the Coffee Break Spanish or Coffee Break French page. We look forward to reading your contributions to the project!
New for 2010: the Radio Lingua Club. . #Twitteracy. “So here are some questions that keep me up at night: How are we to make our students literate if we ourselves are not?
If we cling to age old definitions and ignore the wisdom of one of the oldest professional education organizations we have in this country, how do we provide my kids with the experiences they need to fully understand what it means to be a self-directed, participatory learner in this century? How do we make sure that every child and every teacher has access to these tools and connections? And what do we do when the reform conversations are being led by a majority of folks who have no context for the changes that are happening every day in these connected spaces, folks that by NCTE’s definition, may have some literacy issues themselves?” ~ Will Richardson As literacy is so fundamental to opportunities of learning, I have been thinking about Twitter and the use of it in our schools. “The new literacy, beyond text and image, is one of information navigation. Twitter in education.
Africa Higher-Ed ICT Conference 2011. School 2.0 in South Africa - Twitter Online Un-Workshop for teacher twits. Daily activities to work through: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day4 |Day5 |Day6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | Day 11 |Day 12 | Day13 | Day 14 | Day 15 |Day 16 | Day 17 | Day 18 (for daily activity descriptions, see the bottom of this page) This “un”-workshop consists of about 20 days worth of twitter activities which should assist you to see the educational value of twitter and get you into the swing of things!
There is no time restriction on completing the un-workshop!!! This is about your own professional development! Index to Educational Twitter Hashtags. 1 Year Later- Why Teachers Should Join Twitter…What I have Learned as a Twitter Newbie. What is the first thing you think of when you think of Twitter?
Most people think of a popular social networking site that people use for socializing, sharing random opinions and befriending cool celebrities. Think of Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore. Yes, they are no longer together. But, they were one of the Twitter trend setters. Do you think of trending topics? Last year, May of 2011, I finally threw the towel in and decided to give it a try, mostly to appease my husband who continued to get on my case about trying it. I had just started blogging around this time as well. As a Twitter Newbie, I started out following anyone who followed me because that is what I knew to do. Once my first few blog posts were re-tweeted, I had followers, and I had begun to follow back, the Twitter stream of people I followed began to light up with Tweets.
Quickly, I began to get the niche for using Twitter. I stumbled across Twitter chats by accident. Here’s her updated version too. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.