How Tweet IT Is: Expanding your professional learning network
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This document discusses expanding one's professional learning network (PLN) through social networking platforms like Twitter. It encourages attendees to use Twitter to connect with colleagues, experts in their field, and other teachers to enhance their professional circle and learn from others. Various Twitter features are explained like following, retweeting, hashtags, and how to find relevant people and resources. Privacy settings and purpose for using Twitter are also addressed. The goal is to help language teachers effectively utilize Twitter to expand their PLN.
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How Tweet IT Is: Expanding your professional learning network
- 1. 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
- 6. …use email
- 14. Social Networking =/ Educa<onal Networking =/ Professional Networking
- 17. Social Networking =/ Educa<onal Networking =/ Professional Networking
- 19. Expanding your professional (personal) learning network
- 29. Follow others
- 30. Reply using @
- 32. ReTweet using RT
- 41. Form a backchannel Backchannel
- 42. Get help
- 45. Iran elec<ons
- 53. Students can use TwiLer in their own PLN hLp://www.ideastoinspire.co.uk/twiLer.htm
- 58. Find like‐minded users hLp://twibbon.com/
- 61. Learn by doing
- 62. Find a guide (person or other) hLp://mashable.com/guidebook/twiLer/
- 66. Penny Coutas 4 Seasons Conference EdD Candidate French, Indonesian, Italian and Murdoch University Spanish Language Teachers p.coutas@murdoch.edu.au Adelaide, September 2009
- 67. 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.
Editor's Notes
- From TIME: “The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your “followers,” and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It’s not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads and saying, “If only there were a technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50 friends, alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast cereal.”The technology writer Clive Thompson calls this “ambient awareness”: by following these quick, abbreviated status reports from members of your extended social network, you get a strangely satisfying glimpse of their daily routines. We don’t think it at all moronic to start a phone call with a friend by asking how her day is going. Twitter gives you the same information without you even having to ask.
- Twitter is an online service that enables you to broadcast short messages to your friends or “followers.” It also lets you specify which Twitter users you want to follow so you can read their messages in one place.
- Twitter is designed to work on mobile phone as well as on a computer. All Twitter messages are limited to 140 characters, so each message can be sent as a single SMS alert. You can’t say much in 140 characters. That’s part of Twitter’s charm.
- The social warmth of all those stray details shouldn’t be taken lightly. But I think there is something even more profound in what has happened to Twitter over the past two years, something that says more about the culture that has embraced and expanded Twitter at such extraordinary speed. Yes, the breakfast-status updates turned out to be more interesting than we thought. But the key development with Twitter is how we’ve jury-rigged the system to do things its creators never dreamed of.In short, the most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it’s doing to us. It’s what we’re doing to it.
- 1. Together we’re betterTwitter can be like a virtual staffroom where teachers can access in seconds a stream of links, ideas, opinions, and resources from a hand-picked selection of global professionals.
- 5. Newsroom and innovation showcaseTwitter helps you stay up-to-date on news and current affairs, as well as on the latest developments in areas of interest like school leadership and technology.
- This is what the naysayers fail to understand: it’s just as easy to use Twitter to spread the word about a brilliant 10,000-word New Yorker article as it is to spread the word about your Lucky Charms habit.Put those three elements together – social networks, live searching and link-sharing – and you have a cocktail that poses what may amount to the most interesting alternative to Google’s near monopology in searching.
- Twenty years ago, the ideas exchanged in that conversation would have been confined to the minds of the participants. Ten years ago, a transcript might have been published weeks or months later on the Web. Five years ago, a handful of participants might have blogged about their experiences after the fact.But this event was happening in 2009,, so trailing behind the real-time, real-world conversation was an equally real-time conversation on Twitter. At the outset of the conference, our hosts announced that anyone who wanted to post live commentary about the event via Twitter should include the word #.... In his 140 characters. In the room, a large display screen showed a running feed of tweets. Etc etcPeople from outsideInjecting Twitter into that ocnversation fundamentally changed the rules of engagement. It added a second layer of discussion and brought a wider audience into what would have been a private exchange. And it gave the event an afterlife on the Web. Yes, it was built entirely out of 140-character messages, but the sum total of those tweets added up to something truly substantive, like a suspension bridge made of pebbles.
- Together we’re betterTwitter can be like a virtual staffroom where teachers can access in seconds a stream of links, ideas, opinions, and resources from a hand-picked selection of global professionals.Global or local: you chooseWith Twitter, educators can actively compare what’s happening in their classrooms with others on different continents. 3. Self-awareness and reflective practiceExcellent teachers reflect on what they are doing in their schools and look at what is going well in order to maintain and develop it, and what needs improvement in order to make it better. Teachers on Twitter share these reflections and both support and challenge each other.4. Ideas workshop and sounding boardTwitter is a great medium for sharing ideas and getting instant feedback. You can gather a range of opinions and constructive criticism within minutes, which can help enormously, whether you are planning a learning experience, writing a policy, or putting a job application together.Newsroom and innovation showcaseTwitter helps you stay up-to-date on news and current affairs, as well as on the latest development in areas of interest like school leadership and technology.Professional development and critical friendsQuality-assured searchingCommunicate, communcate, communicate (140 characters is great discipline)Getting with the times has never been so easy!
- Not all these developments will be entirely positive. Most of us have learned firsthand how addictive the micro-events of our person e-mail inbox can be. But with the ambient awareness of status updates from Twitter and Facebook, an entire new empire of distraction has opened up. It used to be that you compusively checked your BlackBerry to see if anything new had happened in your personal life or career: e-mail from the boss, a reply from last night’s date. Now you’re compulsively checking your BlackBerry for news on other people’s lives. And because, on Twitter at least, some of those people happen to be celebrities, the Twitter platform is likely to expand that strangely delusional relationship that we have to fame. When Oprah tweets a question about getting ticks off her dog, as she did recently, anyone can send an @ reply to her, and in that exchange, there is the semblance of a normal, everyday conversation between equals. But of course, Oprah has more than a million followers, and that isolated query probably elicited thousands of repsonses. Who knows what small fraction of her @ replies she actually has time to read? But from the fan’s perspective, it feels refreshingly intimate: “As I was explaining to Oprah last night, when she asked about dog ticks…”
- Unless professional development can be structured in an ongoing, relevant and on-demand way, experience suggests that much of it will be wasted. Grassroots PD