Professional development session for colleagues facilitated via Elluminate virtual classroom.

1. Professional development – Twitter as the base for a Personal Learning Network for Professional Development. This session was facilitated via Elluminate

3. As a lecturer why would I want to use Twitter?

4. Set up a Twitter account

5. Getting started – strategies & jargon

8. microbloggingExchange of short 140-character messages called Tweets http://twitter.com/about#about

9. “Why would I care what someone on the other side of the world had for lunch?”

13. Useful links

14. Ideas for teaching & learning

15. Applications for me & for students

16. Discussion & clarifying ideas/thoughts

17. New theories & practice in teaching & learning

21. Start following a few people Global Educators Voc Ed http://twitter.com/#!/JoHart http://www.twitter.com/#!/ShellTerrell http://twitter.com/#!/suewaters http://www.twitter.com/#!/dougpete http://twitter.com/#!/englishraven http://twitter.com/#!/SarahStewart http://twitter.com/#!/burntsugar http://twitter.com/#!/bradbeach http://twitter.com/#!/ccox888 http://twitter.com/#!/mikebetts725 http://twitter.com/#!/the other66

22. This tab shows ReTweets (RT) someone to resend their message & share more widely Type message here then click Tweet to send Direct message (DM) private eg “D JoHartaaa” will send only to me Join #RSCON3 conf Mentions/Replies (@) anything with @JoHart in the tweet will appear here Messages from your Twitter stream in chronological order

23. Others with similar interests more likely to follow you back if you have a relevant profile (bio) & a picture/avatar other than one of the defaults

24. Desktop client http://www.tweetdeck.com/

25. Lists to track the tweets of similar interest groups The hashtag # used to “tag” related tweets

27. skim the Twitter stream either a couple of times a day or have Tweetdeck open

30. As a lecturer why would I want to use Twitter?

31. Set up a Twitter account

32. Getting started – strategies & jargon

34. Feedback Was the session (content and activities)? A Interesting B OK C Boring

35. Feedback How was the session (format and structure)? A Just right – it worked well B OK C Not very good

36. Feedback Comments / ideas / +ves / -ves