The document discusses the use of Twitter as a Web 2.0 social networking tool for educators, highlighting its role in communication and professional growth. It emphasizes the importance of managing one's digital footprint and maintaining a professional reputation in a school community. Additionally, the content outlines various ways to utilize Twitter for disseminating information and building a personal learning network.

1. Samantha Morra
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Glenfield School Technology Coordinator
Twitter: sammorra
Delicious: samanthamorra

2. Twitter is a free Web 2.0 social networking
service that allows users to send and
receive messages known as tweets.

3. Sample Page

4. Username
Sample Page

5. Username Full Name
Sample Page

6. Username Full Name
Sample Page
Avatar

7. Username Full Name
Sample Page
Avatar Profile

8. Username Full Name
Sample Page
Avatar Profile
Tweet

9. Username Full Name
Sample Page
Avatar Profile
Tweet
Followers

10. Username Full Name
Sample Page
Avatar Profile
Tweet
Followers
Following

11. The Language of Twitter

12. The Language of Twitter
@
Reply sent to a specific person but visible to all.

13. The Language of Twitter
@
Reply sent to a specific person but visible to all.
RT
Re-Tweet or resending another persons tweet.
Retweets are an extremely important part of twitter because it
allows interesting ideas and news items to spread quickly.

14. The Language of Twitter
@
Reply sent to a specific person but visible to all.
RT
Re-Tweet or resending another persons tweet.
Retweets are an extremely important part of twitter because it
allows interesting ideas and news items to spread quickly.
D
Direct message in private to a specific person.
You can only DM a person who is following you.

15. The Language of Twitter
@
Reply sent to a specific person but visible to all.
RT
Re-Tweet or resending another persons tweet.
Retweets are an extremely important part of twitter because it
allows interesting ideas and news items to spread quickly.
D
Direct message in private to a specific person.
You can only DM a person who is following you.
#
Hashtag designating a topic as in #necc09

16. Let’s send a Tweet!
http://twitter.com

17. Our Changing
Information Landscape

18. Our Changing
Information Landscape
Did You Know?
Shift Happens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U

19. Did You Know?
Shift Happens

20. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Web_2.0_Map.svg

21. How the Web is Changing
http://en.wikiversity.org/

22. How the Web is Changing
http://en.wikiversity.org/

23. What is Web 2.0?
If there's one thing Web 2.0 sites have in common,
it's what they're not.
Web 2.0 sites are not online places to visit so much as
services to get something done,
usually with other people.

24. What is Web 2.0?
If there's one thing Web 2.0 sites have in common,
it's what they're not.
Web 2.0 sites are not online places to visit so much as
services to get something done,
usually with other people.
“Technology is a tool for gathering, organizing
and communicating information.”

25. There are many Web 2.0 and social networking sites,
and more are added every day.
Blogs Wikis Videos Photos
Bookmarking Voice Networks

26. Why not just have a website?

27. Why not just have a website?
Web 2.0 tools help you:
Connect
Collaborate Create
Contribute

28. Important Issues with Social Networking
3 A’s to Remember
Information can be:
Accessed
Adapted
and
Archived

29. Important Issues with Social Networking
3 A’s to Remember
Information can be:
Accessed
Adapted
and
Archived
Once it’s out there, it is out there.

30. Important Issues with Social Networking

31. Important Issues with Social Networking
Remember your role within the school community.
Consider how your conduct could affect your professional reputation
and the reputation of your school.

32. Important Issues with Social Networking
Remember your role within the school community.
Consider how your conduct could affect your professional reputation
and the reputation of your school.
Think before you post on the internet.
Ask yourself if you would be comfortable with your
students and their parents seeing them.

33. Important Issues with Social Networking
Remember your role within the school community.
Consider how your conduct could affect your professional reputation
and the reputation of your school.
Think before you post on the internet.
Ask yourself if you would be comfortable with your
students and their parents seeing them.
Keep your professional and personal life separate.

34. You Never Know Where You Will Be Quoted

35. You Never Know Where You Will Be Quoted

36. Web 2.0 Sites Are About Connections
Blogs Wikis Videos Photos
Bookmarking Voice Networks

38. As an Educator
Why Use Twitter?
For Your School Professional Growth
Rapidly Create your own
disseminate "Personal Learning
information Network" (PLN)

39. Why Use Twitter?
For Your School
Rapidly disseminate
information

40. Why Use Twitter?
For Your School
Rapidly disseminate information
Meetings Emergency Reminders
& Events Information

41. Creating a digital footprint
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6585703.html

42. Creating a digital footprint
Twitter was the technology of choice for
hundreds of educators trying to capture the news
and emotions of returning to school Monday.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6585703.html

43. Creating a digital footprint
Twitter was the technology of choice for
hundreds of educators trying to capture the news
and emotions of returning to school Monday.
“We're all surprised at this phenomenon,” said
McReynolds Middle School Principal Jorge
Arredondo, who tweeted encouragement to students
and parents .
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6585703.html

44. Twitter and Schools
Schools and school districts around the
country are using Twitter.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pWq9EQUcdTfIfe1qBpNZzDg&hl=en

45. Twitter and Schools
Schools and school districts around the
country are using Twitter.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pWq9EQUcdTfIfe1qBpNZzDg&hl=en
You can harness the power of these tools to benefit your school.

46. Glenfield School’s Twitter Page
http://twitter.com/glenfieldschool

47. Glenfield School’s Twitter Page
http://twitter.com/glenfieldschool

48. Glenfield School’s Twitter Page
http://twitter.com/glenfieldschool

49. Glenfield School’s Twitter Page
http://twitter.com/glenfieldschool
You can even have a widget on your school website.
Parents can easily access your tweets.
You can set it so only your tweets are seen.

50. Access to Twitter
Twitter.com
Cell Phone-As Text Message
Application on Computer-Tweetdeck
Cell Phone-Application

51. Access to Twitter

52. Access to Twitter
Easier replies

53. Access to Twitter
Easier replies
Shorten URLs

54. Access to Twitter
Easier replies
Shorten URLs
Add pictures

55. Why Use Twitter?
Professional Growth
Create your own
"Personal Learning
Network" (PLN)

56. Why Use Twitter?
Professional Growth
Create your own
"Personal Learning
Network" (PLN)
From within a dramatically new information landscape,
the best description of the 21st Century teacher is Master Learner.
—David Warlick

57. Why I Value Twitter
My PLN
Search for Information
Reflective Practice
Global and Local Perspectives
Instant Feedback
Newsroom
Showcase
Professional Development
Together We Are Better

58. Ask a Question on Twitter

59. Ask a Question on Twitter

60. Ask a Question on Twitter

61. Ask a Question on Twitter

62. Ask a Question on Twitter

63. Ask a Question on Twitter

64. Ask a Question on Twitter

65. Ask a Question on Twitter

66. Ask a Question on Twitter

67. Who Should I Follow?
What are you reading?
http://twitter.com/robertjmarzano
http://twitter.com/sirkenrobinson
What professional groups do you belong to?
http://twitter.com/ascd
What are you interested in?
http://twitter.com/NASA
http://twitter.com/whitehouse
Look at who they follow and their followers.

68. Who Should I Follow?
What are you reading?
http://twitter.com/robertjmarzano
http://twitter.com/sirkenrobinson
What professional groups do you belong to?
http://twitter.com/ascd
Conferences
Continue networking online after the
What are you interested in? conference is over.
http://twitter.com/NASA Check This Wiki
http://twitter.com/whitehouse http://twitter4teachers.pbworks.com/
Look at who they follow and their followers.

69. Let’s check on that Tweet!
http://twitter.com

70. Twitter is a Web 2.0 Tool
“A whole new Web is emerging from the wilds of
cyberspace.
It's no longer all about idly surfing and passively
reading, listening, or watching.
It's about doing: sharing, socializing, collaborating,
and, most of all creating.”
It's A Whole New Web
And this time around it will be built by you
SEPTEMBER 26, 2005

71. Remember:
Technology is just a tool.
A good tool in the hands
of a caring educator can work magic.
Adapted from: Doyle, D. (2007, April 30). [Weblog] What is Teacher 2.0?. EduStat Blog. Retrieved October 18, 2007, from http://www.edustatblog.com/?p=4

72. Remember:
Technology is just a tool.
A good tool in the hands
of a caring educator can work magic.
What is true of Web 2.0 will be true of Educator 2.0
They will need to be:
Active
Dynamic
Community building.
Adapted from: Doyle, D. (2007, April 30). [Weblog] What is Teacher 2.0?. EduStat Blog. Retrieved October 18, 2007, from http://www.edustatblog.com/?p=4

73. Samantha Morra
❊ ❊ ❊ ❊ ❊ ❊
Glenfield School Technology Coordinator
Twitter: sammorra
Delicious: samanthamorra