4 Simple Ways To Get Started Teaching With Twitter - 4 Simple Ways To Get Started Teaching With Twitter by first appeared on gettingsmart.com As the use of social media rise, we may feel tempted to suppress its use inside of the classroom to keep students focused on the content. However, social media can provide tools to enhance learning for students. Twitter provides these four techniques (among many others) that teachers can use to enrich their student’s learning: 1. In many cases, experts or topical users can post tweets that provide new ideas to teachers or give teachers ideas on how to expand on their subject. Depending on how dynamic the class and materials are, we can also use embedded tweets at website locations or links to tweets so that students can interact with the experts or topical Twitter accounts in addition to reading them. 2. One challenge we face is finding material we can use and that will help our students learn. 3. 1. 2. 3. 4.
Great Twittorials for Teachers 11inShare Following the post I published a couple of days ago entitled 10 Video Tutorials on The Use of Twitter in Education, Lieberman contacted me and suggested more resources on Twitter to share with you. I checked the Twitter Learning centre from Cyberwise as she recommended and I found out some really great resources on the use of Twitter in education. Check out this list for more articles on the use Twitter in Education You might also like: A Great New Twitter Guide for Teachers 10 Powerful Twitter Tools for Teachers Professional ... Using Twitter for Teachers' Professional Development The Best Twitter Tools and Tips Teachers should Know about Linkwithin @import url( Custom Search About Me I am Med Kharbach. Google+ Followers Subscribe To Posts Comments Visit Med's profile on Pinterest.
‘Twitter-Jacked’: The Risk of Social Media Marketing | Business WASHINGTON, February 20 (By Sasha Horne for RIA Novosti) - Two American companies have been “Twitter-jacked” this week, taken over by hackers posting crass messages to corporate Twitter pages and replacing corporate logos with those of competitors, further illustrating the often daunting tasks companies face as they strive to manage their social media feeds. “Managing social media accounts is truly a 24-7 job,” said Nicole Siobal, president and co-founder of Social Butterflye, a branding agency that assists startups with creating and managing their digital presence. “If you do find your brand has become the target of a hacker, it’s really important to get ahead of it, and put a statement out right away,” she said. That’s just what global fast food chain Burger King attempted to do on Monday, when its official Twitter account was taken over by hackers who replaced the company’s logo with rival McDonald's. Later, Jeep tweeted, "Hacking: Definitely not a #Jeep thing.
10 Great Video Tutorials on Using Twitter in Education 1- Tweet or not to Tweet 2- Twitter Search in Plain English 3- Twitter for Teachers in 15 Minutes 4- Twitter Hashtag Basics 5- Using Twitter to build a PLN 6- Using Twitter in The Classroom 7- Academic Excellence in 140 Characters How is Social Media Transforming Human Rights Monitoring? Syrian youths, inside a vehicle, film a protest against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with their phones in the northern city of Aleppo on October 12, 2012. (Photo: TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP/Getty Images) Social media is increasingly helpful to not only monitor emerging human rights emergencies, but also to uncover incorrect information. A recent example is when Twitter helped me to spot incorrect contextual information on a newly uploaded execution video from Syria. This is just one instance in which crowdsourced expertise from social media can open up new opportunities for human rights organizations. Of course, citizen journalism is not a new phenomenon―think of the Rodney King case in the early 1990s, to name just one well known example. The crime scene at your fingertips Similar to journalists, human rights researchers cannot cover all places at once and may be denied access to a potential crime scene altogether. Social media as evidence Limitations
A Beginner's Guide to Twitter - Tech Educator Webinar Educational Web Sites Twitter Cybrary Man is a Twitterbrarian! My Twitter Friends My RebelMouse Wording by @sjunkins Sign by Maureen Devlin @lookforsun Sign by @sjunkins Two Wonderful Tools Integrating Twitter in Google Maps I am just doing the last touches on an academic paper I have been working on for the last couple of weeks and which I will submit for publication in an academic journal very shortly. The topic of this paper is Educational Social Networking and once published I will share with you the download link However while working on this paper and because Twitter has taken the lion shaper in it , I have been sifting through a lot of resources on Twitter and accidently cam across these two wonderful Twitter tools from Google Maps Mania . Check them out below 1- Twaps Twaps is a combination of Twitter and Google Maps.