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Crowd Sourced Twitter Guide For Teachers This guide is specifically for teachers who are interested in finding out more about Twitter and even jumping in to the Twittersphere themselves. It is made up of a series of videos from teachers who use Twitter all the time, so it was 'crowd sourced.' Meaning people in the crowd each added a little until there was a whole. Pretty cool stuff really.

What the Heck is Twitter? There is a bazillion articles and videos, trying to explain what Twitter is all about. There is also a ton of surveys, most noticeable a recent one telling you that only 10% of all Twitter users actually post tweets on their own. But here is the thing... They are all giving people the wrong ideas! Twitter has changed tremendously since it was first invented.

Re: [InetBib] Twitter [Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:37:24 +0200From: "Spließ" <christian.spliess@xxxxxxxxx>Subject: Re: [InetBib] Twitter Guten Abend, Klaus Graf schrieb: Klaus, kommt alles was bisher von dir via archivalia zu lesen war und ist, nun auch via twitter? Nein, nicht alles, aber die meisten neuen Blogeintraege werden von mir per Hand und oft mit abweichender Ueberschrift auch in Twitter mitgeteilt. Ein Tipp: Wenn man komplett seine Einträge aus dem Blog nach Twitter oder Identica hieven möchte bietet sich Twitterfeed an. ( Man kann dann auch Postings mit bestimmten Schlagwörtern wiedergeben.

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. Twitter for Teachers Workshop - Additional Links Last wednesday WiZiQ organized a mini workshop about Twitter for Teachers. They invited Enza Antenos-Conforti (@iVenus), Alexandre Enklerli (@enkerli) and myself to give some presentations about how teachers can use microblogging. It was a great event and I learned a lot from my co-presenters there. Below you can watch our presentations as well as some links to teacher related events on Twitter, some useful ebooks and blogs or watch some more videos about Twitter.

33+ (E-)Learning Professionals auf Twitter  Über Sinn und Nutzen von Twitter kann man sicher streiten. Aber als Jane Hart vor einigen Tagen “100+ (E-)Learning Professionals to follow on Twitter” publizierte (inzwischen hat sie dort über 400 Adressen aufgeführt und nennt es “Directory”!), habe ich mich gefragt, wie viele wohl im deutschsprachigen Umfeld zusammenkommen. Also habe ich etwas gestöbert: natürlich auf Twitter selbst und dann in den Blogs, die ich regelmäßig lese.

How to archive your tweets Twitter may be a great way to keep up with what’s happening, but it’s not so good at keeping track of what's happened. That’s because Twitter itself offers no way to keep an archive of your tweets. It’s true that you can search your own postings (from your Twitter page). But those searches are limited to the last 3,200 tweets you have made. And if you want to store your tweets for posterity, there’s no built-in way to do so. Fortunately, there are some third-party tools and services that can archive Twitter for you. Turn Your School Staff Into A Powerful Twitter Team Chances are if you are reading this article, you are familiar with Twitter. In fact, it is quite possible that you even found this article through your extensive and knowledgeable Twitter network. Congratulations, you are part of a community that is not only revolutionizing education, but also revolutionizing news, journalism, emergency services, marketing and nearly everything else.

The Burkie Blog 13 ways Twitter Improves Education Twitter can easily be dismissed as a waste of time in the elementary school classroom. Students will get distracted. Students will see tweets they shouldn’t at their age. How does one