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Meg's Cake Shop @MegsCakes I'm taking the truck out tonight, first stop Washington Park at 7pm. Follow this feed for updates! Come in tonight for 2 for 1 cupcakes. What's your favorite dessert at MegsCakes? Megan's Cake Shop Keeping It Personal Megan's Cake Shop loves how GroupTweet allows them to highlight the different voices of their employees. Share The Load MegsCakes' employees love how GroupTweet allows them to share the responsibility of updating the company account. Seamlessly Add Contributors Employees love how easy it is to update the company account from whichever Twitter client they are already using. Volunteer in Chicago @VolunteerChi via @JoshC283: Packet pickup is next to Pole 1A, Hospitality Tent next to Pole 2B via @Relay4life: Race for the Cure starts Saturday at 9am. We are always looking for more volunteers and to spread the word about great opportunities! Volunteer in Chicago Leverage the Power of Contributors Consolidate and Spread Messages Efficiently Engage Your Audience
6 Twitter Tips That Will Jumpstart Your Professional Development
Twitter may seem, in many ways, to be old news. We’ve written too many posts to count about how to employ Twitter in your classroom. Many educators have found that Twitter is a great tool to help increase participation, battle shyness in the classroom, and continue to engage students once they’ve left the classroom. Many of the mainstays of “How To Use Twitter in Education” remain true regardless of whether you’re using Twitter in your classroom or in your personal life – especially the ideas surrounding being a real human being with multifaceted opinions and interests. But something about the infographic below made my thoughts veer more towards professional development than use in the classroom.
How I Created the Ultimate Tweet with Text, Pictures and an Audio Report
Typing 140 characters and adding a link or photo is so 2010. Too many news organizations merely place web or broadcast content on a Twitter screen and press tweet. Why not create content for mobile devices tailored to the way people use their smartphones and tablets, as well as the devices’ benefits and limitations? Using the same content for broadcast, online, and in social media is not only repetitive and boring, it fails to take into consideration the mechanical and behavioral differences between a person watching TV, listening to the radio, reading a web story, or fidgeting with a phone or tablet. Television news organizations have had decades to figure out how best to tell a story. Online journalists now know how to build multimedia pages that encourage the user to click on several elements to paint a complete picture. So the question is, “How can I produce rich content that’s best experienced by a person on a smartphone? My answer? See? Related
Using Twitter for Professional Development
The term “professional development” conjures up thoughts of travel, conference fees, arranging substitutes, and loss of precious instructional time. But does it have to entail all that? Actually, no. A growing number of educators are using Twitter—yes, the microblogging platform Twitter—as a quick, easy, low-cost alternative. If you aren’t yet familiar with Twitter, it’s a social networking platform where users share everything from what they had for breakfast to professional dilemmas – all in 140 characters or less. Educators on Twitter often discuss what’s working in their classrooms and how they’ve addressed important issues – much like you might with your peers. The Virtual Watercooler Colleagues are a greatly underutilized professional development resource within the school building, and staff often remark about the benefits of setting aside time for collaboration with co-workers. Hesitant to get started? Experts Say… Getting Started
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A Guide To Twitter Chats
If you remember back to my post on hashtags we talked about how hashtags can be great sources of learning. When you begin to look at hashtags you will find some end it "chat." That means there is an actual Twitter chat that goes along with that hashtag. What is a Twitter chat? In it's simplest form, its a set time where folks get together and all post using the same hashtag. As one of the founders of #edchat I get a lot of questions about the what, where, when and why. The History #edchat started out of a series of conversations between myself, Tom Whtiby and Shelly Terrell. The Basics To participate users need only add #edchat to their tweets. Following Along You will need a way to follow the conversations. Afterwards The archive is usually posted by the next day and it includes all the tweets during the hour time span. Advice You can't follow every conversation during #edchat. So what about other chats? #PTchat-Wednesdays 9pm EDT- This is one of those chats that has seen a lot of changes.
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How to Promote Twitter for Professional Development to Your Colleagues and Other Stuff
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged and I’ve missed it. Now that my husband is out in town at the Linkin Park and Stone Sour concert, it was an opportune time to sit at my computer and finally get my thoughts down. I haven’t had time to reflect much on my work recently as I’ve started a couple of new projects at work as well as complete two MOOCs. With the workload, I’ve been easily distracted from blogging. Some time ago, my friend Jasmine, (@JMahlki) who organises monthly Learning Cafe breakfasts for L&D professionals in Melbourne, asked me whether I would be a guest presenter at one of her team’s professional development sessions. “Tell them how you use Twitter,” she said. So with this brief, I reflected on how I used Twitter and created a presentation that was a mix of activities, theory, tweeting and personal stories. “Are you sure you want to do this? Besides, I’m in Learning and Development – I’m meant to coach, teach, support and guide others. You can see my presentation here:
