Learn how to use Twitter to connect with other educators.

1. Twitter Basics
for Teachers
Presented by Ann Carnevale
@annmcarnevale
Grade 3, Toffolon Elementary
Plainville Community Schools
Presentation available online at:
http://annmcarnevale.blogspot.com

2. Twitter is the light at the
end of the tunnel of
teacher isolation!

3. Build Your PLN
It’s like being in the largest PD you can
imagine, and it’s tailored to just your
needs!
(Personal Learning Network)
Connect and collaborate with teachers
across the globe!
Share ideas and resources!
Discuss issues affecting education
today!
You’re no longer bound
by walls of your school!
You’re no longer bound
by walls of your school!

4. What’s it Like?

5. Get Started on twitter.com
~ * ~ Go into this keeping it professional and positive ~ * ~
Use your full name. If it’s taken, include your middle initial or middle
name. Don’t use your school name, room number, or grade level - those
things can always change.
Create a profile that indicates that you’re an educator.
Add a picture of yourself. Educators are more likely to follow you back
when you have a picture and a profile.
Keep your tweets public to really connect and build your PLN.
Start small and keep it manageable so it doesn’t feel overwhelming.

6. Twitter Speak
Tweet - Words, photos, videos and
links that you post, 140 character limit,
116 with a picture
Tweeps - The people you talk with on
Twitter
RT - Retweet - when you tweet to your
followers what someone else tweeted
Hashtag - A word or phrase w/o
spaces preceded by the # sign that
acts as a shortcut to tweets on the
same topic
Followers - Users who choose to
follow your tweets and see them show
up in their feed
Favorite - Way of showing you like a
tweet
DM - Direct message, private message
to a user (they must follow you)
Ss - Students
Ts - Teachers

7. What’s in a Tweet?
Profile pic
Account
Name
User
Name
Tweet text
Hashtags
Reply Retweet Favorite More Actions
Number of
retweets
Number of
favorites
Users who
retweeted
or favorited

8. Twitiquette
Avoid an Uh-Oh
moment, and know the
expected etiquette of
Twitter.

9. Tweet back - If someone mentions you, answer
back, even with just a thanks.
Thank people who answer your questions.
Give credit where credit is due! Don’t copy
someone else’s tweet and tweet it as your own,
RT it.

10. If you wouldn’t say it in person,
in public,
to a colleague,
to a student’s parent,
or in front of your boss,
don’t say it on Twitter!

11. SHARE
Old to you is new to someone else!
Retweet the good stuff
you see. Tweet the
good stuff you find like
education articles and
blog posts, even
education books that
you read and blog
posts you write.
Old to you is new to someone else!

12. Follow - Making Connections
Start with a list from me or someone else
on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/AnnMCarnevale/lists/new-to-twitter
Use hashtags to find people with common
interests and follow them.
Find someone you really identify with, and
follow some of the people they follow
Look at lists people you follow have put
together or are on.
When someone follows you, look carefully at their profile
and what they tweet before you follow back, some accounts
are spam.

13. Tweet It!
Type what you want
to say in the white
box, then click the
Tweet button… Now
you’ve tweeted!

14. Tweet To a Specific Person
Use the @ sign and the person’s user name, leave a space, and begin
typing your message. While it’s public, it will not show to your entire feed.
If you include the user name in the middle or at end of your tweet, all of
your followers will see your tweet to the specific person, as well as that
person.

15. Notifications When someone follows you, or favorites or RTs
one of your tweets, you get a notification. The
number of notifications you have at any point in
time show as a count on the bell symbol next to
the word Notifications. Click on the Notifications
link to see all of your notifications.

16. Education Hashtags
Shortcuts to the really good stuff!
#edchat
#edtechchat
#gafe
There’s a hashtag for all things education:
http://cybraryman.com/edhashtags.html

17. Using a Hashtag to Connect
Click in the search box and type in the
hashtag, including the #. Click the
magnifying glass.
When the search results are
returned, click on the option
for Live, which will show all
tweets on the topic, not just the
top tweets.

18. Follow From a Hashtag Search
Once you do a hashtag search,
you’re likely to find people to
follow. To do that, click on their
account name. A small profile
preview will pop up. To follow
them, click the button with the
person and the plus sign to the
right of their name.

19. Soar into Real
Time Chats!
Scheduled, moderated chats are held
every day on a wide variety of topics.
These chats are a great way to connect
and chat with other educators, and
discuss topics relevant to education.
Some chats can move very quickly and
be hard to keep up with at times, even for
seasoned users. Don’t get discouraged if
it’s hard to keep up at first.
List of Twitter Chats: https://goo.gl/iUV7PO

20. TweetDeck
An easy way to follow multiple feeds, and be part of a focused Twitter chat.
https://tweetdeck.twitter.com

21. Help!
Twitter maintains a great help
resource for basic and advanced
users.
https://support.twitter.com
There’s a hashtag just for teachers
new to Twitter - #nt2t

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