4. Why and What Do We Tweet? Tweets are a source of information; people in certain places, at certain events, sharing at a global level Tweets his way out of an Egyptian jail (U of California-Berkley student, James Buck—April 2008) Earthquake in China (May 2008) Landing on the Hudson (US Airways Flight—Jan 2009) Earthquake in Italy (April 2009) Mumbai Terror Attacks (Nov 2009)
7. Where Do We Start? Joining the conversation is easy… Select a username / create a password / provide an email address
8. My Twitter Page The last thing you micro-blogged: a.k.a. a tweet Where you update/ tweet The Timeline with your following Popular topics
9. Deciding Who to Follow By common interest? By geographical location? By influential status? http://www.twibes.com/group/WorldLanguages
10. Let’s tweet Tweets are self-perpetuating generative authentic Tweeps / Twitterers (users) interpret input produce output engage in conversations
11. Twitter term: Mention (aka Reply) The @Replies feature was introduced because we noticed lots of folks putting the @ symbol in front of Twitter usernames as a way of addressing one another. For example: @biz what are you drinking in your avatar? (It's a soy latte.) @username also now in the middle of tweets as a way to simply reference another account
15. Tweeting to… Create a personal learning network—i.e., follow people who share your interests by reading their tweets about blog posts news & events videos & music other followers (who then you begin to follow) The positive spiral of Twitter as a social network
16. The Teacher’s PLN A Personal Learning Network is essential to implementing Web 2.0 technologies to teaching Conversation and interactivity are organic with members of the PLN
17. Teaching with Twitter Create a Twitter handle for academic use only Use class time to have students create their handle, follow classmates and tweet for the first time Prompt them initially to have them feel comfortable with Tweeting Develop your best practices for course objectives
18. Teaching & Learning with Twitter Class chatter Classroom community Get a sense of the World Track a Word Track a Conference Instant Feedback Follow a Professional Follow a Famous Person Grammar Rule Based Writing Maximizing the Teaching Moment Public Note Pad Writing Assignment Source: AcademHack www.outsidethetext.com/home/2008/twitter-for-academia/
22. Hands-On Tweeting Here’s what to do: Tweet something to share two (2) things about yourself (personal, professional, etc.) Include the hashtag below (#BCTech) Click on the hashtag in your tweet and read what others have tweeted Reply to the tweet of two (2) other twitterers
