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The document provides guidelines on effectively using Twitter as a professional development tool in educational settings. It highlights key features like tweeting, retweeting, direct messaging, and using hashtags for engagement and collaboration while emphasizing the importance of maintaining privacy and safety. Additionally, it suggests resources and etiquette for building a personal learning network and using Twitter for academic purposes.
- 1. TWITTER Share resources and links to events, news, and blog posts Engage through dialog Post real-time updates examples Privacy and safety Basic Vocabulary Looking for specific examples of twitter Just like any online tool, there are Twitterer/Tweeple: Twitter users being used in higher-ed classrooms and as safety measures and precautions you Follower: Twitterer who tracks your tweets a professional development tool? should take when tweeting: RT (ReTweet): resending another’s tweet Here are a few ideas on how teachers are - enable/disable “tweet location” DM (Direct Message): tweet that is only using Twitter: - use a secure password visible by the recipient - track a conference - beware of spam @reply: sent to a specific user but visible - classroom backchannel to all - collaborative research bibliographies For guides and tips on using twitter #: hashtag designates a topic or event that - open discussion safely: http://bit.ly/ld7btV can be followed - follow academic/literary/political figures - tweet questions for instant feedback - invite experts to talk with hashtags - promote causes and raise awareness Personal Learning Network - collaborate with other classrooms Additional resources: Twitter is an excellent tool to use to create - send announcements and reminders a Personal Learning Network (PLN). A PLN is a group of friends, colleagues, or experts Links to spreadsheets, lists, article and www.protopage.com/ktreglia with whom you exchange information and posts with specific examples: www.twitter.com/kris10_ resources. For links to articles and blog http://bit.ly/iH6eoA posts with advice to building and utilizing your own PLN with Twitter: http://bit.ly/kWkGJ9 articles and papers A listing of scholarly papers and studies on Twitter: http://bit.ly/jOSUpo tweeple and hashtags Twitter etiquette A listing of directories and tools for Some simple do’s and don’ts of tweeting: Articles about using Twitter in the classroom finding tweeple to follow: or as a PLN tool: http://bit.ly/jgyZfe - Show, don’t tell and provide links http://bit.ly/m8nv2u - Help and retweet others Useful hashtags: - Humor and snark in moderation - #edchat - Listen and engage in conversation Tools - #highered - Don’t spam or over promote - #smcedu - Pause between tweets Most tweeple find it useful to use Twitter tools - Use hashtags - #educause such as Tweetdeck or TwitPic. Don’t forget to - Avoid automated tweets - #edtech start using a backup/archiving as well as a - Don’t blast others notification system. More about hashtags including a helpful spreadsheet: For more advice and tips on how to tweet: For links to lists of Twitter tools check out: http://bit.ly/lXDiPl http://bit.ly/mBilhf http://bit.ly/jQ8TKI Fordham IT | www.fordham.edu/IT “ Created by: Kristen A. Treglia | http://about.me/kristent We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people. ~Pierre Omidyar 2011-05-13 14:35:35 GMT-04:00