Teaching withhttp://vote4power.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/twitterbird.jpg

What we’ll coverThe what, how, why, when and where of TwitterTwitter backgroundTwitter jargonHow to create an accountHow to make your Twitter profile more interestingHow to RT and DMWhat’s the ‘@’ mean?What are friends and followers?How to search for other edu-tweeps to follow How to follow particular topicsBack channels at conferencesMobile tweetingIdeas and examples for using with studentsCome away with an action plan to incorporate into YOUR teachinghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ilse/3389565299/

What is Twitter?Free Social networkUsers send and read each other’s messagesRelatively new - Created in 2006 by Jack Dorseyhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ilse/3389565299/

Free

Social network

Users send and read each other’s messages

Relatively new - Created in 2006 by Jack Dorsey

http://twitter.com/Jack

Watch Video on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o

Activity 1Create an accountMake your first tweet

Go to http://twitter.comSign upLogin

Answer the question “What are you doing?”Could be “what’s catching your attention?”Type in the boxClick updateFirst tweet done!

Activity 2Edit your profile

Update your profile via “Settings”Add your real name so people can find youUsername could be, and is increasingly people’s real nameBio has to be brief – 160 charactersMore likely to be followed if you upload a picture – can be cartoon/avatarShow your interest - change the default design

Choose design available on Twitter or (when you have time)Design your own wallpaper/background with these free servicesFreeTwitterDesigner.comTwitBacks.comMyTweetSpace.comPrettyTweet.comArtweet.com

Watch Video on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGbLWQYJ6iM

Activity 3Search for other participants & Carol (kiwicarol)Follow them

Activity 4On your home page or http://search.twitter.com/Search for topicsKeywordsHash tagsLook at trends

Keywords

Hash tags

http://search.twitter.com

http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/connexions

http://www.twazzup.com/

Activity 5Find a great tweet & RT itReply to someone’s tweetDM to someone’s tweetMark a tweet as a favourite

RT - means retweet / sometimes written as (via @name)@name - will be picked up as a reply or mentiond name – direct message, seen only by the person (note space, and no @)#tag – like a keyword

RT - means retweet / sometimes written as (via @name)

@name - will be picked up as a reply or mention

d name – direct message, seen only by the person (note space, and no @)

#tag – like a keyword

Activity 6Set up your mobile for mobile tweetingMake a mobile tweet

You will get confirmation via your phoneOnce set up send tweets to 8987 (twtr) Costs to send tweets just like any other txt

You will get confirmation via your phone

Once set up send tweets to 8987 (twtr)

Costs to send tweets just like any other txt

Applicationshttp://tweetdeck.com

http://echofon.com

http://seesmic.com/

Using Twitter with students?Ideas?http://www.flickr.com/photos/victoriapeckham/164175205

As an experiment, Parry made Twitter a class assignment and got his students to engage in microblogging as homework. He observed how Twitter became the link that connected conversations inside and out of class. ... He also discovered that it changed classroom dynamics in a positive way, encouraging more respectful and productive interaction between students by turning the class into a community.http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/03/twitter-breaks-down-barriers-in-the-classroom.arshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/victoriapeckham/164175205

...the Stanford Study of Writing, a five-year study of nearly 14,000 pieces of student writing, done for class and beyond it. Though final data analysis has not been done, early results indicated that in their Internet writings, students took pains to cultivate tone and voice, and to address a particular audience. "The out-of-class writing actually made them more conscious of the things writing teachers want them to think about," said Paul M. Rogers, an assistant professor of English at George Mason University who is involved in the study.http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Can-Twitter-Turn-Students-Into/7874/http://www.flickr.com/photos/victoriapeckham/164175205

Using Twitter with students?Class chatterClass communityGet a sense of the worldTrack a word / conferenceInstant feedbackFollow a professional / famous personPublic NotepadWriting assignmenthttp://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2008/twitter-for-academia/http://www.flickr.com/photos/victoriapeckham/164175205

Action PlanWHAT are you going to do?WHEN are you going to do it?With WHICH class(es)?WHAT do you need to do to prepare?HOW will you evaluate it?http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomswift/4837657/

Questions?Carol Cooper TaylorCooper-Taylor TrainingW: www.cooper-taylor.comE: carol@cooper-taylor.comhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/victoriapeckham/164175205