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. From the fine folks at Twiends , it lays out all the vocabulary you need, actions you can perform, and even gives a rough idea of what you should expect from Twitter. 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.
Trends in 160+ locations Today, we’re introducing Trends in more than 160 new locations. Included in that list are a number of countries that will be getting Trends for the first time: Belgium, Greece, Kenya, Norway, Poland, Portugal, and Ukraine, plus more than 130 new cities in countries that already have Trends. Trends are an easy way to find out what people are talking about right now –– around the world, in your country, or in your city. To make Trends more convenient and relevant for people around the world, we’re constantly working to bring Trends to more locations –– be on the lookout for even more in the future.
Was ist ein MOOC? | Neue Lernwelten Ein MOOC ist eine Variante des E-Learning, wenn man E-Learning definiert als: “Jede Form von Lernen, die durch die Anwendung von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien unterstützt wird.” 1 Wesentliche Unterschiede zu den herkömmlichen Online-Kursen sind einerseits die hohen Teilnehmerzahlen (Massive) und andererseits der freie, kostenlose Zugang (Open). Daraus folgt nicht zwangsläufig eine Veränderung des Lernens oder gar eine Bildungsrevolution, auch wenn das dieser Tage zu lesen war. Momentan wird hauptsächlich unterschieden in cMOOCs und xMOOCs. Anfangs gab es nur den MOOC Als Begründer der MOOCs gelten, auch wenn es Vorläufer gab, die kanadischen Wissenschaftler George Siemens und Stephen Downes. Der Konnektivismus geht davon aus, dass Lernen sich als selbstorganisierter Prozess in offenen Netzwerken vollzieht und vor allen darin besteht, sich zu vernetzen. Grundprinzipien eines cMOOC Kein verbindliches Curriculum Wissen wird nicht übertragen oder konstruiert, sondern wächst.
How Twitter has made me a New Teacher « Dukelyer TwitterThe other day I managed to pass a couple of Twitter milestones, 500 followers and 3000 tweets, and I made me really stop and think about how this thing that many of us use named Twitter has affected my life and my passion for teaching . I teach at a steadily growing, but really still small, country school in the lower middle of the South Island of New Zealand. The closest town is 20 minutes away and has a standing population 4-5 thousand people year round. Then I grabbed an opportunity to travel to an EXPO in Dunedin where I met up with a teacher who I had met the past year and he was Tweeting. It lay dormant for a few months and it took me many tries to even remember the password and username, but after seeing two passionate, knowledgeable and enthusiastic teachers mention Twitter and a PLN as part of their success I new that I had to give it a go and have not looked back since. Thank you Twitter PN: 13 hours later I have to add one more photo. Like this: Like Loading...
A List of 100+ Scientists on Twitter Here is a list of more than 100 scientists who use Twitter. They are organized by category. Check them out below Extraplanetary Sciences From astronomy to rocket science, these scientists are dedicating their careers to exploring what lies beyond our own planet. Biology Zoology, entomology, genetics, and biotech are just a few fields these amazing biologists focus on. @JCVenter: American biologist and entrepreneur John Craig Venter was one of the first to sequence the human genome and to create human cells with synthetic genomes. Chemistry Keep up with the amazing work these chemists are doing by following their feeds. Earth Sciences Find tweets on topics like oceanography, seismology, and geology here. Environmental Science Those who are interested in helping protect the environment should take a look at these great feeds. Physics These great feeds will help you learn more about the often complex field of physics. Health and Medicine Technology Brain Science Science Writing and Promotion
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. 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. Keep private conversations private. They don’t call it a social network just for fun. Ask questions.
10 Surprising New Twitter Stats To Help You Reach More Followers This post was originally published on the Buffer blog. Since social media is changing so often, it can be hard to keep up with stats and trends that affect how you use it. I quite often forget the facts that I’ve read, or I use Twitter based on stats that are outdated now. In fact, when I recently looked at some of the latest social media statistics, it hit me that the fastest growing demographic on Twitter is is the 55–64 year age bracket. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what’s changed. In case you’re in the same boat with me, I gathered up some really interesting Twitter stats that can help you improve the way you reach your followers. 1. I guess not many people know about this one, because only 19 percent of brands tweet on the weekends. Social media scientist Dan Zarrella also found in one of his Twitter experiments that click-through rates were higher on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. 2. Just like on Facebook, photos are more engaging for Twitter users. 3. 4. 5. 7.
MOOCs: Who’s using MOOCs? 10 different target audiences Fascinating graphic,a sit shows that nearly 42% of the target audience for MOOCs are not the developed world. It also raises an interesting question. Who is it for?’ are four words that tease out a MOOC strategy or lack of strategy. For most it is a marketing exercise in terms of the brand, a way of reducing internal costs on high volume courses, a way of recruiting potential students (directly or through their parents). Yet others see it as a way of flushing out funding from Alumni or presenting an ‘accessible’ face to Government. For MOOCs, several target audiences have emerged: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Lifelong learning MOOC This is the big one, as it produces the big numbers. The set of people who are external is huge and diverse in terms of age, national v international, nationality, ethnicity and first language. Internal + external MOOC Do you want your existing students, either slated for the existing course or others, to do your MOOC? · Free to anyone (marketing) Outreach MOOC
What Twitter Can Teach Primary Students Kathy Cassidy’s new book Connected from the Start: Global Learning in the Primary Grades will be published this month by Powerful Learning Press. This excerpt from Chapter 6, “Connected with Twitter,” illustrates the value of using social media tools in the primary school classroom. Learn more about Kathy’s outlook on the need for six year olds to develop a public global presence in this interview at the PLP blog. Although we have not always been consistent users of our classroom Twitter account, my six-year old students have had some tremendous opportunities for learning through our use of this popular social network. @2mgems We saw videos of your floods. Because the Gems were on summer vacation at the time, their teacher, Amanda Marrinan replied for them. @mrscassidyclass thankyou 4 thinking of us. She also sent us a map of the area that was flooded. @mrsmgem Thank you for the map. A few days later, Mrs. @mrscassidyclass definitely staying out of the water. Meaningful and authentic