205 Excelentes aplicaciones para Twitter. Cómo darle a Twitter una utilidad académica. Las redes sociales tienen en la comunicación una de sus principales utilidades.
Mantener el contacto con amistades y familiares es una de sus grandes bondades, así como brindar la oportunidad de generar nuevos contactos. No obstante, herramientas como Twitter han encontrado en el área de la información una auténtica mina de oro. ¿Qué usos alternativos podríamos darle a nuestros perfiles sociales? Aquí exploramos uno de ellos intentando sacar jugo de los 140 caracteres. Las redes sociales han llegado para quedarse. Toda buen arma tiene dos filos. Sobran artículos que nos hablan sobre el uso profesional de Twitter, la mejor hora para enviar mensajes, formas eficientes de estructurarlos, sugerencias de a quién seguir y la lista sigue y sigue. Sugiero entonces un ejercicio muy sencillo. Os daréis cuenta de que la búsqueda ofrece tres filtros: destacados, todos y personas que sigues.
100 Twitter Tips For Teachers. Twitter may have started off as a fun social media site for keeping up with friends and sharing updates about daily life, but it’s become much more than that for many users over the past few years as the site has evolved and grown.
These days, Twitter is a powerhouse for marketing, communication, business, and even education, letting people from around the world work together, share ideas, and gain exposure. It has become a staple at many online colleges and campuses as well, leaving many academics wondering just how and if they should be using Twitter both in the classroom and in their professional lives. You have to start somewhere and these tips will help ensure that your first foray in Twitter is a great experience. Organize your Twitter. Twitter has made it simple to keep things organized and makes looking through tweets a breeze. The Internet may be a virtual Wild West but there are some unspoken rules of engagement you should know before adding your two cents into the mix. Twellow. Twitter for Learning. Top 100 Tools for the Twittering Teacher. Posted on Thursday April 2, 2009 by Staff Writers By Donna Scott Twitter has become a powerful tool for community organizers, marketers, and others who want to share and receive information in a fast, friendly environment.
It’s no wonder, then, that some of the best online colleges teachers have also found success on Twitter, using the tool to connect with students, share information with parents, and find useful resources. Here, we’ll take a look at 100 tools that can help twittering teachers make the most out of this helpful microblogging tool. Note: We’ve updated this list for 2012 with even more useful, up-to-date tools for savvy educators. Twitter: How to archive event hashtags and create an interactive visualization of the conversation JISC CETIS MASHe. The use of Twitter to collecting tweets around an event hashtag allowing participants to share and contribute continues to grow and has even become part of mass media events, various TV shows now having and publicising their own tag.
This resource is often lost in time, only tiny snippets being captured in blog posts or summaries using tools like Storify, which often loose the richness of individual conversations between participants. It doesn’t have to be this way. Using a combination of Google Spreadsheets as a data source and a simple web interface to add interactivity it’s possible to let users explorer your entire event hashtag and replay any of conversations. View example conversation replay. 25 Ways To Use Twitter To Improve Your Professional Development.
Although LinkedIn gets a lot of love as a professional social media site, Twitter is a force that can’t be ignored by up-and-coming young professionals. It’s a great place to get connected and informed, and an especially good resource for growing professionally. But how exactly can you use Twitter for professional development? Check out our list to find 25 different ways. Keep your Twitter profile employer-focused : Maximize the space that you have in your profile to share a professional description of yourself. Hobbies show personality, but accomplishments and professional interests might help you land a job. Cash in on your good karma that you’ve earned by helping others and call in a favor yourself. Usos de Twitter en educación. Ha notado que últimamente muchas personas incluyen en su tarjeta de presentación o en la firma de sus correos electrónicos un nombre de usuario precedido por un símbolo de arroba (@); por ejemplo @jordi_a.
Pues esta no es una dirección de correo incompleta, es un nombre de usuario de Twitter, una de las redes sociales, posibilitada por la Web 2.0, que más usuarios tiene en el mundo [1]. Teachers Guide to The Use of Twitter in Classroom. The Top 50 Education Twitter Chats (And How To Use Them) Twitter as a Metacognitive Support Device by Alan Reid. “If student satisfaction, engagement, and metacognitive awareness are all part of your definition of a successful course, then Twitter may be an option for you.”
Integrating social media into academia is not a novel idea. And since you are reading this, chances are you probably have been utilizing some feature of social media in the classroom for years. What is more interesting is asking why academia should exploit social media and, more specifically, Twitter. Some learners are effective at self-regulation; that is, they guide their learning through metacognition – thinking about their own learning – and through strategic action and evaluation of their own progress.
Research has shown that such learners will outperform inadequate self-regulators in nearly every aspect of learning. Increasing metacognitive awareness (knowing what you know, and what you don’t know) is critical for better self-regulation.