This document discusses using Twitter in the classroom and how it relates to TPACK (Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge). It provides an agenda that covers what TPACK and Twitter are, how teachers are using Twitter, examples of implementation, tools used, new forms of assessment, and resources. The document then discusses hashtags, getting started on Twitter, advice from teachers, microblogging with Twitter, Twitter chats, tools like Tweetdeck and Buffer, and credits the sources of images.

1. Classroom Twitter and
TPACK

2. Agenda
 What is Tpack?
 What is Twitter?
 How are Teachers Using it?
 View Examples of Implementation
 Look at Tools Used
 View New Forms of Assessment
 Just Do It
 Resources http://bit.ly/carrolltech

3. Tpack
Technology
Pedagogy
Curriculum

4. 4 C‟s
 Pencil holds a symbolism that is
„playful, and creative‟ for this artist
Hugh McLeod
 What tools do you associate with
creativity today?
 For yourselves?
 For your students?

5. What is Twitter?
 Microblogging

8. Professional Use of Social
Media (Twitter, FB, Blogs, Wikis, Google+)
TEACHES
REGULARLY OTHERS
USE
POSTED A
FEW TIMES
CREATED
PROFILES
ON ONE
NOT OR MORE
CURREN SITES
TLY

11. Social Media

12. Hashtags
 Follow Hashtags for Conferences
 Events
 Discussions
 Chats

13. 4 C‟s of 21 st Century
Skills

14. Advice from educators
globally
 That‟s what it‟s all about

15. Teachers Say
 www.twitter.com

16. Getting Started
 Profiles
 Complete Info
 Location
 Goals
 Position
 Interests

18. Advice from Teachers

19. Secret Formula

20. Microblogging Tool -
Twitter
“Inot only use all of
the brains I have,
but all that I can
borrow”
Woodrow Wilson

21. Twitter Chats

22. Twitter Tools - Tweetdeck
 Twitter chat re: cpchat

24. THE Journal
 Use technology for changing the way we
communicate
 Quote
 „We are trying to change that conversation by
educating the community about the programs in
our schools and the success they are having
academically and in character development‟
 http://thejournal.com/Articles/2012/06/19/how-
social-media-creates-connections-for-school-
districts.aspx?m=2&Page=3

25. Buffer –
Tweet Multiple Channels

26. Credits
 Pew Resesarch – Reaching Audiences in the Digital Age
http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2012/Sep/Reaching-Your-
Audience-in-the-Digital-Age.aspx
 Tpackwww.tpack.org
 4 C‟s Image – www.p21.org
 Janice Krum – via Twitter Images @willrich45
 Pencil Image – Hugh McLeod
 http://www.gapingvoidart.com/pencil-p-2192.html%
 Twitter Icon1 Image Credit: ConserStations
 Twitter icon2 Image Credit http://www.creativeguerrillamarketing.com/
 Twitter Icon3 http://www.mediabistro.com/

27. Thank You!
 Nancy Caramanico
 Instructional Technology Specialist
 http://ncara.edublogs.org
 www.caratechnology.net
 Twitter: www.twitter.com/ncara
 Email: nancycaramanico@gmail.com