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Twitter - A Powerful Collaboration Tool for Teachers
This document discusses how Twitter can be used as a collaboration tool for teachers. It provides examples of how teachers can use hashtags to find discussions on specific topics, follow other educators to learn from their ideas and resources, and participate in scheduled chats on educational themes. Archives of past chats allow for asynchronous participation and discovery of new resources. Various apps help organize Twitter content and customize the experience.
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- 1. a powerful collaboration tool for teachers twitter eric langhorst @elanghorst
- 2. I use Twitter often and find it a very useful tool
- 3. I use Twitter I have a Twitter often and find account but it a very useful don’t use it tool much
- 4. I use Twitter I have a Twitter often and find account but it a very useful don’t use it tool much I don’t currently use Twitter but open to learn
- 5. I use Twitter I have a Twitter often and find account but it a very useful don’t use it tool much I don’t Twitter is a currently use waste of time, Twitter but other sessions open to learn were full
- 6. Twitter is aboutmore than just what you ate for breakfast… http://www.flickr.com/photos/62274271@N00/3203363010
- 7. American History Teacher SouthValley Jr. High School Liberty, Missouri Faculty – Park University College of Education “Technology for the Classroom” Currently writing dissertation Doctor of Education Walden University
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- 9. www.ericlanghorst.com/mcss2012 www.ericlanghorst.com/mcss2012 youcan send yourself an e-mail to be delivered in the future as a reminder
- 10. What is socialmedia? Forms of electronic communication (as web sites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages and other content (as videos) - Merriam Webster, 2011
- 11. power of socialmedia is that it is a two way street http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/6677357571 consumer producer
- 12. social media inthe news Netflix Backlash http://www.flickr.com/photos/87397046@N00/6253594281 Arab Spring http://www.flickr.com/photos/27519540@N04/2655128664
- 13. Twitter social networking sitewhich allows users to share messages, limited to 140 characters at a time Launched in July of 2006, named after the sound a bird makes chirping
- 14. 200 million registeredusers 350 million tweets a day 100 million active users each month http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/09/08/twitter-has-100-million-users/
- 15. Great statistics butcan this help me as a classroom teacher? YES http://www.flickr.com/photos/76994867@N00/4267034867
- 16. tweet vocabulary reply hashtags tweet chats retweet follow follower direct message
- 17. tweet a posting whichcan be text, a link to a website, a photo or combination – 140 character limit
- 22. follow when you “follow”someone you can view their tweets followers when someone “follows” you they can see all of your tweets
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- 28. direct message sending someonea message, only that person can see, they must be following you a little like sending an e-mail to someone
- 33. retweet passing along someoneelse’s tweet to your followers – passing along good information
- 34. So, how doyou keep up with all these tweets? http://www.flickr.com/photos/eflon/5079163335/
- 35. The river willflow, with or without you watching it. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbh/4809673039/
- 36. Need a wayto “trap” the information that is important to you. http://www.flickr.com/photos/archer10/6019820676/
- 37. hashtags allows you tofind specific themes or topics, people include hashtags within their tweets #royals #historyteacher #election2012
- 38. You can checkout tweets from this conference by checking hashtag: #mosocialstudies2012 and follow MCSS: @mosocialstudies
- 40. chats a scheduled timeat which Twitter followers discuss a common theme and use a common hashtag can participate live or check in later with the archive
- 41. anyone can followthe chat conversation if they do a search for the same hashtag #sschat #sschat (social studies chat) takes place each Monday between 6:00 PM and 7:00 PM Central Time
- 43. chats are archived so one can participate live (synchronous learning) or view the archive when they can (asynchronous learning) http://www.flickr.com/photos/carbonnyc/64581364/in/faves-speakingofhistory/
- 45. archive of January9, 2012 social studies chat current events in social studies
- 47. once you havea Twitter account you can use other applications to customize the information and organize it how you want
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- 50. many apps areavailable for tablets, i-Pads, cell phones
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- 54. examples surprising what canhappen when you share your lesson for the day different than e-mail because not an expectation for a response
- 55. finding people tofollow - lurk and see who is talking about topics which interest you - check out chats - check follow lists of others
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- 57. next steps bea lurker, don’t need an account
- 58. next steps - setup an account, use with friends and not just celebrities
- 60. a powerful collaboration tool for teachers twitter eric langhorst @elanghorst