30 great British education-innovators to follow on Twitter. Most modern professionals have a Twitter account. The social network can offer belly laughs out-of-nowhere, factoids that can raise a smile or an eyebrow (see Andy Nyman’s account for excellent facts-of-the-day) and often real insight. Indeed, Twitter can be a superb place for getting output from superb innovators of education… Here are thirty education specialists, mostly recommended by followers of Innovate My School. This isn’t meant to be seen as a conclusive / top list, or a ‘best of'; these are just 30 people from whom you can gather wonderfully innovative ideas.
[Given the huge amount of suggestions from our followers, this article will be the first of several. @innerquest - A former deputy-headmaster, Tim McShane is a keen enthusiast of ICT, e-safety and e-learning. What do you think of the list? This is what a Twitter guide would look like if Dr. Seuss wrote it.
Twitter Mini Masterclass. Getting started on Twitter? Help is at hand | Social Media 4 Us. Getting started on Twitter? Help is at hand If you have just joined Twitter welcome to the Twittersphere! Rest assured that whilst it may seem a bit daunting to start with, once you start to follow people that interest you (this is important) you will start to engage in very interesting conversations. If you prefer you can initially simply follow others who are doing so and this is fine. As you add people you wish to follow, you will see that their tweets provide you with links to websites, photos and videos on topics of interest you share.
Twitter follow button You can find more information about using Twitter by going to the Twitter tab at the top of this page or via this link: Everyone has a Twitter name or handle. It is helpful to others when choosing your handle to keep it succinct so it will be easy for your followers to remember. In March 2012 Twitter celebrated it’s 6th birthday. Source: The Beginner's Guide to Twitter. Update: This post was updated November 2013 to reflect current statistics and tools. Do you have a parent, friend or colleague ready to ditch his or her digital training wheels and head into Twitter's open wilderness? These pointers should get them started. And even Twitter experts might benefit from a quick refresher on the platform's valuable tools. First, the basics: What is Twitter all about? It's a platform wherein users share their thoughts, news, information and jokes in 140 characters of text or less.
On Twitter, following someone is not necessarily an admission of friendship, but nonetheless affords interaction and conversation — at least in short bursts. The first step is to understand and master the vernacular. Tweet: A 140-character message.Retweet (RT): Re-sharing or giving credit to someone else's tweet.Feed: The stream of tweets you see on your homepage. Twitter has a great online glossary that you can refer back to, should you get mired in a vocab morass. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
The London Met Elearning Matrix | Why Use Twitter? By Jim Pettiward, on Jul 04, 2014 Snapshot: Do you use Twitter? Do you think it's just a bunch of tweeting celebrities? Read on to find out why some academics swear by it... Twitter - what's all the fuss about? Twitter, like Facebook, seems to be one of those 21st century phenomena which polarises opinion. Read the comments following any article in a newspaper about social media and you can guarantee that they’ll be full of vitriol aimed at Facebook, mostly from people who never use it and don’t really understand it.
Twitter seems to inspire similarly strong feelings, but much of what people think about Twitter still appears to hark back to early stereotypes of twitter users all being vacuous celebrities ‘tweeting’ about what they had for lunch etc. While Twitter, like every other medium, has its fair share of fools, it is proving to be an extremely useful tool for academics. What is Twitter for? Here are some examples of how academics can use Twitter: These are just a few examples.
Top Reasons Why Teachers and Educators Use Twitter. Details Published on 16 September 2013 Written by Bedotroyee Bhattacharjee Hits: 752 Top reasons why teachers use Twitter Twitter- a great way to connect and follow as many personalities as one may want to. Apart from the youth Twitter interests all age groups. Firstly focusing on personal interest gives us the following reasons why Twitter is such a hit among them Teachers can follow leading educationalists and professors to gather information about teaching techniques.It will enable them to stay updated about on goings of the world and developments in their field and elsewhere.Study material can be availed by following eminent personalities.Self-learning and education can be done for improving the quality of teaching. Secondly it is a great help for planning and propagating Collaborating with other teachers , parents, students. Twitter Is Tracking You On The Web; Here’s What You Can Do To Stop It. Why You Should Kill Your Robot Twitter Followers.
Twitter Account Hacked? – Tips to Fix it. Twitter is the fastest and greatest way to keep in touch with the world and all your friends. But most of the Twitter members fall in hackers trap, but you can avoid these types of traps easily. If your twitter account hacked or been compromised but you are still able to log in. So this article will help you to secure your twitter account from hack and stop unwanted behaviors on your Twitter account. Read Also: Recovering a Hacked Facebook Account Read Also: How to Know Gmail is Hacked or Not Here are the ways which help you to know that your twitter account hacked or been compromised. 1. 2. 3. 4. 1.
Change Twitter Password First thing you have to change your password immediately by selecting “Settings” from the dropdown menu next to your account name, which is listed on the top right on Twitter.com, then navigating to the “Password” tab. 2. Revoke Connections Second thing you have to turned off access to your account for any suspicious-looking or unknown third-party applications. 3. Twitter / Home. Your favourite academic tweeters: lists available to browse by subject area. In the run up to launching a Guide to Academic Tweeting, we asked you to recommend your favourite academics on Twitter. Over the last week we received over 500 suggestions across all the major subject areas, and discovered some great new Tweeting gems with your help. Here we present all the suggestions, broken down into five subject area lists. Please feel free to share with anybody new to Twitter, and have a browse to see if you can find your new favourite academic tweeter.
Thank you to everybody who suggested their favourite academics on Twitter following the invitation on the blog last week. The responses we received were very positive and we were rather overwhelmed, but ultimately excited that a useful resource was being created by so many people. In an attempt to turn the list into useful resources, we have separated the users into five subject areas, based on their research areas. The Twitter Top 100: Education Technology Must-Follows. It's All About The Hashtag. If you remember, in my 3 part series on Twitter, I wrote about how I completely changed the way I do professional development on Twitter. In a nutshell, I no longer start with signing up and tweeting the first day. I always show how to use Twitter without ever signing up. I believe it's important to establish the value in using it rather than using it and attempting to find the value. What a lot of people don't realize that Twitter is a very powerful search engine.
Just like Google, if you know how to use the search effectively you can find pretty much anything. And one of those effective ways is leveraging the power of hashtags. What is a hashtag you ask? From The Twitter Fan Wiki: Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. Basically, its a tag in your post so that you or someone else can find it later or track it as it is happening. Right, but how does this help you find stuff for your classroom? The A-Z Dictionary of Educational Twitter Hashtags. Whether you’re a new or seasoned Twitter user, you likely come across confusing hashtags that probably look like a bunch of nonsense. First, What’s A Hashtag? The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keyword or topic in a Tweet. Any Twitter user can categorize or follow topics with hashtags.Those hashtags (usually) mean something and are a great way to get a tweet to appear in search results or discussion monitoring.
For example, the popular #edchat hashtag is used by thousands of users every Tuesday. It makes it easy (sort of) for people to monitor what’s happening in the conversation rather than having to try and guess what topics you should search for. How To Hide Your Hashtag Chat From Followers When having a Twitter #hashtag chat, if you want to avoid overwhelming your followers, start any tweet you want to “hide” with @HideChat or (one character shorter) @HideTag .
You don’t need to do this with all your chat tweets (though you could). Sources The Most Popular Hashtags. Educational Hash Tags. #edude#eduFollowChallenge#edugreen #eduhashtag #eduit#edumindset#eduON (Ontario)#euduoz #edupd#edupreneur#edupunk #edutech #EduThingsILike#eduvc#eduvoxers #elemchat #elementary#elemsci #ell #ellchat#elrnchat #elt#eltchat#eltpics#emchat #emotionalliteracy#edpolitics #engagechat#engchat #engedu #EngineeringEducation#english #english-teacher#engsschat #enrichingkids#enviroed#e-safety#ESCchat#esdgc#esea#esl #esol#esp#ETAS#etcchat#ETcoaches#etmchat#ettipad #e20#expandedlearning #family#fb4ed#FCE#FETC #FF#fft#filmclass#finnedchat#fitnessedu#flatclass #flatclassroom#FLE#flipblogs#flipchat #flipclass#flipped#flippedclassroomflippedlearning#flteach#FOAMed #followalibrarian #followfriday#fooded#foodtechteachers #formativeassessment#forteachers #frenchchat#frimm#fstenet#FutureReady#FYCchat #jalt#jcedchat#jedchat#jed21#jerdchat#journalism#journchat#JoyfulLeaders #TABSchat#TalkTech#TCEA #tck#TCRWP#TRCWPCoaching#TD#TDSIG#teach#teachchat#teachered#teacher-librarian#teachchat#teachgender#teach-me.
Ray's 2.0: Who can see your "replies" & "mentions"? The rule of thumb on who among your followers will receive your replies and mentions, in their home page "tweets" feed, is this: 1. If the very first character in your tweet is a @, then the tweet can only be seen by (a) the recipient and (b) any of your followers who are also following the recipient. 2. If the first @ is preceded by anything, even a single character, then the tweet can be seen by all your followers. This distinction has no real logic to it, since the following forms of a reply are synonymous and of equal validity: [a] Dear @RayBeckerman I enjoyed "Up Above My Head" sung by Sister Rosetta Tharpe[b] I really enjoyed "Up Above My Head" sung by Sister Rosetta Tharpe, @RayBeckerman[c] @RayBeckerman I really enjoyed "Up Above My Head" sung by Sister Rosetta Tharpe[d] I'll tell you, @RayBeckerman I really enjoyed "Up Above My Head" sung by Sister Rosetta Tharpe But they are treated differently.
(a), (b), and (d) will be visible to all of your followers. A Visual Guide To Twitter For Beginners. You may have a Twitter account that you don’t use very often. You may tweet once in blue moon. You may just use it to ‘lurk’ during hashtag chats you enjoy. ( Check out our list of Twitter hashtags for to get started with that!) But you may not be a full-fledged Twitter user … yet. This dense and highly visual approach to understanding Twitter is just great. The below infographic is basically a beginner’s guide to Twitter except it’s one easy-to-read format: infographics!
Click the image below to enlarge it a bit – that’ll help view some of the smaller text. Three Simple Ways to Save Time on Twitter. What’s your biggest struggle when it comes to social media? I’ve sent that question to hundreds of social media professionals and digital marketers in the past few months and the consensus is… I feel the pain. I know from first-hand experience that juggling a presence on multiple social networks is difficult, especially when you don’t want lose out on the benefits of the newest shiny toys — lately, Google+ and Pinterest. We’re all constantly looking for new tools and methods to increase efficiency without sacrificing quality engagement, which of course should always be our focus with social media. Below are three simple tools and methods to cut down on your tweeting time, especially if you’re on a web page without social sharing buttons. 1. Buffer as a whole is one of my favorite tools, and their browser extension is just icing on the cake.
This extension adds a tiny toolbar to the bottom of your browser with a Buffer icon. 2. 3. Let me lay out the general process: Wrong! What Do You Think? {12 Days: Tool 4} Twitter Cheat Sheet. Twitter for Educators Twitter, the popular social media platform, is continually picking up momentum in its number of users; however, I find many educators who are not tapping into the power of Twitter. The mystery that surrounds Twitter, I believe, keeps many people from benefiting from the potential it holds. Consider this recent post on Facebook from a friend who revealed, “My mom thought that hashtags were code messages.” While the post made me chuckle, to those who don’t use Twitter, terms like tweets, retweets, and hashtags, can seem pretty foreign and intimidating. For those just getting started, I’ll explain a few basic terms to help you easily and quickly navigate your way around Twitter.
For those who already use Twitter, you may want to jump down to the next section, Benefits for Educators, or simply download the Twitter Cheat Sheet at the bottom of the post. Twitter: The Basics available so that became my username. Benefits for Educators A Word to the Wise Final Thoughts Kimberly. Ultimate Twitter Guide for Educators. If you are new to the strange land of Twitter, it might seem like the most ridiculous thing that has ever been created. What is the use in ‘tweeting’ something to millions of people in 140 characters or less? In education, Twitter is actually being used as a very powerful tool for learning and connecting with educators and students around the globe. With this handy Twitter guide for teachers, you’ll be ready to jump feet first into the world of Twitter. What is Twitter? Twitter is a service for everyone (friends, family, co-workers) to connect and communicate through exchanging short messages.
These messages are posted on your profile, sent to those you follow and can be searched. Why do I follow someone? When you follow someone on Twitter, it means that you will receive all of their Twitter updates. Why Teachers should use Twitter You can instantly tweet the latest educational information, invite people to chat, provide links, post pictures, ask for lesson plans and ask for help. 1. Twitter, PLEs and PLNs. How to Use LinkedIn With Twitter for Better Networking. How important is Twitter in your Personal Learning Network? If Twitter Is Not PD, What Is It?
All the easiest ways to search old tweets. Share photos and videos on Twitter. Twitter for Professional Development: Ultra Beginner Edition, Part 2. Blog | Can Twitter replace traditional professional development? 25 Ways To Use Twitter To Improve Your Professional Development. Why Educators Should Spend 15 Minutes a Day on Social Media. HOW TO USE TWITTER IN THE CLASSROOM WITHOUT COMPROMISING YOUR PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR STUDENTS.
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