How to leverage twitter to use it for teaching and learning.

1. Let’s Get Tweeting
Lisa Schwartz
SD 38 Summer Tech Institute
September 3, 2015
#summertech38

2. @lisaschwartz05 (Lisa)
Today’s Hashtag: #summertech38
Twitter Handle & Hashtags

3.  A social networking tool
 The ability to send and read tweets
(messages) of 140 characters
 Small bursts of information about
everything you can imagine
What is Twitter?

4.  Connections with other classes
 Connections with teachers & leaders
 Connections with community
 Connections with authors
 Modeling digital citizenship for students
 Learning Intentions or Summaries
 Parent/student information
Connecting Classrooms on Twitter

8. Connecting Educators on Twitter

9.  Tweet out reminders
 Tweet current events relevant to your class
 Tweet out links for students to respond to
 Classroom discussions
 Collaboration
You don’t need to follow them. They don’t need to
follow you, create a hash tag for your class.
Twitter with Older Students

10. How do I tweet?
 How many characters?
 What is this: #
 RT ? MT ? DM?
 Who sees my tweets? General settings:
 Followers
 Anyone who searches / follows any #s used
 Anyone who searches any terms/hashtags
used

11. Hashtag =
Community w/ shared interests
 #sd38
 #bced
 #bookaday
 #edtech
 #edchat
 #sd36learn

12. What is a chat?
 Pre-arranged, typically weekly or monthly
conversation on one topic
 One-hour of tweeting w/ specific #
 Follow the chat in hootsuite, tweetdeck, etc.
 Moderators
 Introductions & then Q1, A1 format
 Favorite-ing for later reference
 Sunday Nights at 7-8 p.m. PST BCED chat

13. Let’s Get Tweeting