How Tweet IT Is: Expanding your professional learning network

Expanding your professional learning network Penny Coutas 4 Seasons Conference EdD Candidate French, Indonesian, Italian and Murdoch University Spanish Language Teachers p.coutas@murdoch.edu.au Adelaide, September 2009

Keep standing if you…

…chat to colleagues about work

…chat to colleagues about other stuﬀ

…belong to a professional (teachers’) associa<on

…use email

…use Facebook

…have colleagues as “friends” on FB

…have students as “friends” on FB

…have a blog or other website

…use a RSS Reader

…are here mainly for the food

Social Networking =/ Educa<onal Networking =/ Professional Networking

But it’s all personal networking

Expanding your professional (personal) learning network

PLN yourself at hLp://suewaters.wikispaces.com

What do people tweet about?

Tweet to your followers

Follow others

Reply using @

Private message using d

ReTweet using RT

Create convos and trends using #

Expand & enhance my professional circle Generated by TwiLer Friend Wheel hLp://thomas‐ﬂetcher.com/friendwheel/twiLer/

Learn from the inﬂuencers What has their aLen<on?

Learn from the teachers What has their aLen<on?

The best of the web

Form a backchannel Backchannel

Get help

Iran elec<ons

MarrioL & Ritz bombings

Wil Anderson @ #Logies

Language Teachers Get to know those who know

Not just real people: Bots too!

Students can use TwiLer in their own PLN hLp://www.ideastoinspire.co.uk/twiLer.htm

But don’t assume that they do already

Mash and mix it up! hLp://www.twiLervision.com

Find people you already know

Find like‐minded users hLp://twibbon.com/

Get a client Applica<on database: hLp://twitdom.com/

Learn by doing

Find a guide (person or other) hLp://mashable.com/guidebook/twiLer/

Set your privacy (and purpose)

Penny Coutas 4 Seasons Conference EdD Candidate French, Indonesian, Italian and Murdoch University Spanish Language Teachers p.coutas@murdoch.edu.au Adelaide, September 2009

Credits Where credits are not given the images are my own. People are pictured with permission. Twitter screenshots from http://www.twitter.com and Tweetie on my iPhone. Slides 1 & 67: Background from http://www.twitter.com Other backgrounds: http://limeshot.com/2008/twitter-backgrounds Slides 7-9: http://www.facebook.com Slide 10: http://blogs.murdoch.edu.au/pcoutas Slide 11: http://reader.google.com Slide 12: Photo by Kate Reitzenstein Slide 15: http://www.myspace.com ; http://www.facebook.com Slide 16: http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com Slide 18: ‘All about me’ Uploaded on December 27, 2008 by mtsofan to Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtsofan/3142398920/ Slide 19: ‘PLE as subset of PLN’ Uploaded on December 18, 2008 by catspyjamasnz to Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/catspyjamasnz/3118564555/ Slide 20: ‘Twitter Bandwagon’ Uploaded on October 15, 2008 by Matt Hamm to Flickr http://www.jarche.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/twitterbandwagon_matthamm.jpg Slide 21: http://suewaters.pbworks.com Slides 24, 26, 27, 44, 49, 65: MinXuan Lee http://www.slideshare.net/minxuan/how-twitter-changed-my-life-presentation Used with permission. Slides 28: Twitter Mosaic http://sxoop.com/twitter/mosaic.pl Slides 33, 54 & 62: http://www.mashable.com Slides 35, 36, 57: Twitter Friendwheel http://thomas-fletcher.com/friendwheel/twitter/generate.php Slide 40: ‘Information hydrant’ Uploaded on June 20, 2008 by Will Lion to Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/2595497078/ Slides 45 & 46: http://pistachioconsulting.com/twitter-iran/ Slide 48: http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/04/celebrities-tweet-the-logies/ Slide 53: http://www.ideastoinspire.co.uk/twitter.htm Slide 55: http://www.twittervision.com Slide 59: http://twitter4teachers.pbworks.com/Foreign-Language-Teachers Slide 60: http://blog.hubspot.com Slide 61: http://www.blaugh.com Slide 66: ‘Travelling feet: Beyond fallen flowers & grass…’ Uploaded on January 6, 2008 by psycherika to FLickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaleidosopicpsyche/2174781610/ Slide 66: Betcher, C., & Lee, M. (2009). The Interactive Whiteboard Revolution: Teaching With IWBs. Camberwell, Vic: ACER Press.

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