Twitter For Educators

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Twitter for Teachers
Building a Personal Learning Network (PLN)
http://caspersontest.pbworks.com/Cellphones-and-Twitter

Twitter misconceptions
Narcissistic
Mainly to follow celebs
Just another Facebook/fad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN2HAroA12w

Twitter as resource
Easier, quicker facebook/blog to share thoughts with friends/colleagues
Resource for PLN: following and connecting with experts in the educational technology field
Connecting to other master teachers
http://twitter4teachers.pbworks.com/

Twitter Basics
Sign up for an account at Twitter.com
Edit your profile
Post ideas or status updates yourself
Follow others
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o Common Craft intro

Beyond the Basics
Use a tool like Tweetdeck to manage your network and post from
Strategies to find other’s to follow:
Follow those your friends are following
Go to a service like http://tweepml.org/ or Wefollow.com
Find teachers on lists from wikis, etc

Ways to use Twitter in Class
Follow experts, famous people
Class talk, questions, feedback
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WPVWDkF7U8
Track word, event, etc.
Homework updates, group work
Writing, grammar, group stories
http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2008/twitter-for-academia/

Twitter Tools
Tweetdeck/Seesmic Desktop
Todaysmeet/Edmodo for private school based tweeting
Twitpic/Yfrog for pictures
Hundreds out there: search for Twitter and what function you’d like

For more resources:
http://caspersontest.pbworks.com/Cellphones-and-Twitter
Greg Casperson
http://gcaspers.fts.educ.msu.edu/wp/
@gcasperson
http://teachingandtech.wikispaces.com/Twitter