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. So how do you disseminate and make sense of all this hashtag madness? By going through the art of the hashtag step-by-step, of course. This short guide details how to identify, track, use, and organize hashtags in an efficient and useful way. Have a tip to share on hashtags or a unique way you utilize them? 1. So what's the most efficient way to figure out those nasty hashtags? What the Trend? 2. 3. 4.
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. .
How to Use the Simple Magic of Mantrams to Command your Superconscious Mind By Peter Kelder, Author ofAncient Secrets of the Fountain of Youth "There is a slight difference between the words mantra and mantram. Both are taken from a Sanskrit word meaning instrument of thought. Whether you realize it or not, you create and shape your life with your thoughts. Now, in order to use mantrams to your advantage, you need to first understand the mind and how it works. Whole books could be written on the subject, but just now the important thing for you to remember is this: your superconscious mind is a willing and eager servant whom you command by way of your thought patterns. When you think a thought, you issue a command. This concept, as simple as it is, is a stumbling block for many people. But if you examine your thoughts closely, you're likely to discover negative patterns competing with positive ones. A mantram is something you can use to unify your thought patterns and bring them into alignment with your highest and best desires. How to Use Your Mantram P.S.
#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?” As literacy is so fundamental to opportunities of learning, I have been thinking about Twitter and the use of it in our schools. During this time in our world, if you can’t read this, are you missing out on something important?
15 Fabulous Paths to Getting Anything You Want, FREE! 4. Google it. It never hearts to Google what we would like for free. Don’t just try one term, but many variations, especially based on varying geography. What may be expensive in one city could be free in another part of the world. Example: Companies may not give a physical product for free, but offer the digital copy at no cost. 5. Sometimes waiting is the name of the game. Example: GroupOn, Living Social, and TeamBuy are all great web sites that show us great deals every day. 6. Example: And maybe the competition isn’t really the competition. 7. We may think we want a particular product, when we’re really looking for a particular functionality. Example: Microsoft Office costs money, but we get all the equivalent functionality from Star Office, for free! 8. It can be that simple. Example: Sometimes it's as simple as calling our credit card company and asking them to lower our interest rates and what offers are available to help people in this tough economy. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
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! You can do it any time and take as long as you like to complete it (although I advise you to try and do it over a shorter period of time so that you do not loose focus) . If you want to receive a certificate of completion to hang on your wall (you will be a certified edutwit) you will have to officially register as well as complete at least the first 15 days (see top or bottom of this post) of all the daily activities. So how do you get started? Daily tweetness:
HTML img Tag The information on this page is based on HTML version 4.01 (which is the current version of HTML). The next version, HTML 5, is currently being written. Here's a list of HTML 5 tags. The HTML img tag is used for embedding images into an HTML document. To use this tag, the image you specify in the src attribute needs to be available on a web server. For more information on creating graphics for the web, check out the web graphics tutorial. To link an image to another web page (or a larger version of the image), you simply nest the <img> tag inside an <a> tag. You can also link your image to an image map. Also see the HTML 5 version of HTML tags Link to this page (copy/paste into your own website or blog): Link to Quackit using one of these banner ads. Thanks for supporting Quackit!
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. 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. Getting started with twitter 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.