This a slide set (with annotations added) used at the "Our Adventure in the Twitterverse: Insights & Discoveries" session at the ETC Advancing Learning 2012 conference

1. Our Adventure
in the Twitterverse
Insights & Discoveries
Greg Rodrigo
Centre for Teaching & Learning
Georgian College

3. Goals for this workshop

4. Goals for this workshop
Twitter
Fundamentals

5. Goals for this workshop
Twitter
Fundamentals
Personal/Professional
Learning Network

6. Goals for this workshop
Twitter
Fundamentals
Personal/Professional Experience the
Learning Network Twitter Backchannel

7. Hash tags
Conference #advlearn
Workshop #twadv

8. Goals for
our adventure

9. Goals for
our adventure
• Social Media presence
• Broadcast CTL news/workshops/news
• Discover new educational resources
• Connect members of the Georgian
community
• Connect Georgian to other educators

10. Discoveries

11. Discoveries
• personalities
• Cathy N Davidson
• Ken Robinson
• loads of resources from other CTLs
• flipped classroom
• blended learning
• fantastic videos

12. Crash Course World History video
shown during session
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yocja_N5s1I

13. @GeorgianCTL

14. CTL
Resources/
News
@GeorgianCTL

15. CTL
Resources/
News
Georgian
Community
@GeorgianCTL
Educational
Resources/
News
Quotes,
Word-of-the-
day
Following

16. CTL
Resources/
News
Georgian
Community
Home
Timeline @GeorgianCTL
Educational
Resources/
News
Quotes,
Word-of-the-
day
Following

17. CTL
Resources/
News
Georgian
Community
Home
Timeline @GeorgianCTL
Educational
Resources/
News
Quotes, Tweets you make or from
Word-of-the-
day the people you follow
appear from in your Home
Timeline
Following

18. CTL
Resources/
News
Georgian
Community
Home
Timeline @GeorgianCTL
Educational
Resources/
News
Quotes, Tweets you make or from
Word-of-the-
day the people you follow
appear from in your Home
Timeline
Following

19. CTL
Resources/
News
Georgian
Community
Home
Timeline @GeorgianCTL
Educational
Resources/
News
Quotes,
Word-of-the- You can choose to retweet
day items that appear in your
Home Timeline
Following

20. CTL
Resources/
News
Georgian
Community
Home Twitter
Timeline @GeorgianCTL Feed
Educational
Resources/
News
Quotes,
Word-of-the- You can choose to retweet
day items that appear in your
Home Timeline
Following

21. CTL
Resources/
News
Georgian
Community
Home Twitter
Timeline @GeorgianCTL Feed
Educational
Resources/
News
Quotes,
Word-of-the- You can choose to retweet
day items that appear in your
Home Timeline
Following

22. CTL
Resources/
News
Georgian
Community
Home Twitter
Timeline @GeorgianCTL Feed
Educational
Resources/
News
Quotes,
Word-of-the- You can choose to retweet
day items that appear in your
Home Timeline
Following

23. CTL
Resources/
News
Georgian
Community
Home Twitter
Timeline @GeorgianCTL Feed
Educational
Resources/
News
Quotes,
Word-of-the- You can choose to retweet
day items that appear in your
Home Timeline
Following

24. CTL
Resources/
News
Georgian
Community
Georgian
Community
Home Twitter
Timeline @GeorgianCTL Feed
Educational
Resources/
News
External
Quotes,
Word-of-the- Your followers see your
day Twitter Feed (but not your
Home Timeline)
Following Followers

25. What about
those hashtags?
Hashtags are allow us to
“group” certain tweets
together and is useful when
we want to search Twitter

26. Want to get the attention of
someone? Use the @ sign
followed by their Twitter
handler (e.g.
@GeorgianCTL)
m entio ns
@

27. Who to
follow?
Many different strategies to find
people to follow (e.g. look at the
people in your following &
followers list and check who they
follow, and check their lists as
well)

28. CTL
10 E Twitt
of t xce er H
he p ption arve
ast al Tw st -
wee eets
k
To share our Twitter
discoveries, we send out a
weekly “top ten” to faculty
at our college

29. Tools

30. Tools
Twitter clients
There are numerous Twitter
clients available for
smartphones, tablets, &
computers

31. Tools
Instagram is very useful in
Instagram photographing events -
posting to Twitter from
inside the app is very easy

32. Tools
Other apps (e.g. RSS
readers or news
aggregators) also allow
easy retweeting of items

33. Tools
You can link Posterous and
other blogging apps easily
to Twitter

34. Our adventure continues...
@GeorgianCTL