Teaching With Twitter

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  1. Teaching with
    http://vote4power.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/twitterbird.jpg
  2. What we’ll cover
    The what, how, why, when and where of Twitter
    Twitter background
    Twitter jargon
    How to create an account
    How to make your Twitter profile more interesting
    How to RT and DM
    What’s the ‘@’ mean?
    What are friends and followers?
    How to search for other edu-tweeps to follow
    How to follow particular topics
    Back channels at conferences
    Mobile tweeting
    Ideas and examples for using with students
    Come away with an action plan to incorporate into YOUR teaching
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/ilse/3389565299/
  3. What is Twitter?
    • Free
    • Social network
    • Users send and read each other’s messages
    • Relatively new - Created in 2006 by Jack Dorsey
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/ilse/3389565299/
  4. http://twitter.com/Jack
  5. Watch Video on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o
  6. Activity 1
    Create an account
    Make your first tweet
  7. Go to http://twitter.com
    Sign up
    Login
  8. Answer the question “What are you doing?”Could be “what’s catching your attention?”
    Type in the box
    Click update
    First tweet done!
  9. Activity 2
    Edit your profile
  10. Update your profile via “Settings”
    Add your real name so people can find you
    Username could be, and is increasingly people’s real name
    Bio has to be brief – 160 characters
    More likely to be followed if you upload a picture – can be cartoon/avatar
    Show your interest - change the default design
  11. Choose design available on Twitter or (when you have time)
    Design your own wallpaper/background with these free services
    FreeTwitterDesigner.com
    TwitBacks.com
    MyTweetSpace.com
    PrettyTweet.com
    Artweet.com
  12. Watch Video on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGbLWQYJ6iM
  13. Activity 3
    Search for other participants & Carol (kiwicarol)
    Follow them
  14. Activity 4
    On your home page or http://search.twitter.com/
    Search for topics
    • Keywords
    • Hash tags
    Look at trends
  15. http://search.twitter.com
  16. http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/connexions
  17. http://www.twazzup.com/
  18. Activity 5
    Find a great tweet & RT it
    Reply to someone’s tweet
    DM to someone’s tweet
    Mark a tweet as a favourite
    • 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
  19. Activity 6
    Set up your mobile for mobile tweeting
    Make a mobile tweet
    • You will get confirmation via your phone
    • Once set up send tweets to 8987 (twtr)
    • Costs to send tweets just like any other txt
  20. Applications
    http://tweetdeck.com
  21. http://echofon.com
  22. http://seesmic.com/
  23. Using Twitter with students?
    Ideas?
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/victoriapeckham/164175205
  24. 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.ars
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/victoriapeckham/164175205
  25. ...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
  26. Using Twitter with students?
    Class chatter
    Class community
    Get a sense of the world
    Track a word / conference
    Instant feedback
    Follow a professional / famous person
    Public Notepad
    Writing assignment
    http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2008/twitter-for-academia/
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/victoriapeckham/164175205
  27. Action Plan
    WHAT 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/
  28. Questions?
    Carol Cooper Taylor
    Cooper-Taylor Training
    W: www.cooper-taylor.com
    E: carol@cooper-taylor.com
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/victoriapeckham/164175205

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