7. PLN Personal learning network Start by following 20 to 50 people who are interesting and or influential in your field Many of them will follow you back Ask questions…
8. Grammar @ = public talking to or about someone RT = retweet D = direct message (eg d howard61) #Hastag themes Irony & humour Trending topics http://www.flickr.com/photos/27283274@N00/4346584176
13. Students Don’t often like it – despite your enthusiasm Yet find material that the wouldn’t otherwise use Often can seem like a chore on top of already prescribed work
14. Research Students in the study who were asked to contribute to class discussions and complete assignments using Twitter increased their engagement over a semester more than twice as much as a control group. Improved results as well… http://bit.ly/jqLYsY
15. Twitter search People instead of information 3rd party APIs Keep up to date with your field What’s happening Who are the leaders. Accounting example http://bit.ly/jqLYsY
16. Some possibilities… Tell stories, follow trends, collate info with hashtags, include location, share a class or event with others, poll, ask questions, crowdsource, recipes, contact experts (eg NASA), integrate (like RSS) into blogs/Moodle, logbook, share resources, trip tracking, collate multiple related tweeters/topics,
18. Links 31 interesting ways to use Twitter in the classroom http://bit.ly/3TwKx4 Twitter help for educators http://bit.ly/h1TwL Twitter increases student engagement http://bit.ly/jqLYsY Effects of Twitter in an online learning environment http://bit.ly/fJvKUA
