This document provides an overview of Twitter and how it can be used for education. It explains that Twitter is a social media platform where users can post short text-based messages called tweets, along with photos and hashtags. The document outlines how to set up a Twitter account and engage with the platform, including following other users, retweeting posts, and using hashtags. It describes how Twitter can be used for personal learning and accessing classroom resources. Finally, it provides examples of educational Twitter chats by topic and times they occur.

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4. What is Twitter?
An online social networking service
Users can read and send “tweets”
Tweets are text messages w/140
characters max. Photos can be used.

5. Why Use Twitter?
 Be exposed to a lot of information quickly
 Communicate with people across the world
 Get answers to your questions
 Learn new ideas in education
 Hold group conversations on a particular topic

6. You have complete control on how you wish
to participate in the “Twitterverse.”

7. Sign up for an account

8. Choose a user name / handle

9. Complete your profile

10. Hash Tags

11. Let’s go lurk:

12. Tim Childers – Let’s Lurk
tchilders

13. Sandi Dennis – Let’s Lurk
sandidennis

14. STEP 2:
THE FOLLOWER

15. Twitter Lingo
 Username: your account name with @ in front. Also referred to
as your Twitter handle
 Followers: The people that read your tweets
 Following: The people whose tweets you are reading
 Timeline: Home page where your read tweets from those you
are following
 Retweet (RT): Sharing someone else’s tweet
 Hashtag: a keyword or topic marked with #

16. Formulate your first tweet. 140 characters or less.
Punctuation and spaces count as characters. At the end,
include #GAGC2014.
Step 3: The Tweeter
140 characters or less
At the beginning or end of the
message, include
#denapalooza2015

17. Why should you be on Twitter?
 24/7 Personal Learning Network Personal Learning
Network
 Classroom Resources
 Communication – Upper grade students / Parents
 Staying Up To Date – Ed. News hits Twitter first
 Ed-Chats

18. ED-CHATS
All assigned a # (hashtag)
All occur at a particular time
Questions are posed by the facilitator
– e.g., Q1…
Answers are given – e.g., A1…
Answers are not required
Lurking is encouraged
Step 4: Ed Chats

19. Sundays #nbtchat No Box
Thinking
7-8 p.m. CST
Mondays #4thchat 4th gr
Teachers
8-9 p.m. EST
Tuesdays #pblchat Project-
Based
Learning
8-9 p.m. EST
Wednesdays #ctchat Critical
Thinking
7-8 p.m. EST
Thursdays #denchat Discovery
Educator’s
Network
8-9 p.m. EST
*
Fridays #gtchat Gifted 7-8 p.m. EST
Saturdays #Nt2t New
Teachers to
Twitter
9-10 a.m.
CST

20. Twitter in the Classroom
Minimum age for a Twitter account
is 13
Under 13 – use a teacher
class account with the
teacher supervising the tweets

21. Practice writing tweets first …

22. Practicing posting a tweet

23. Ticket Out the Door
Answering an essential question
Documenting work w/photo

24. Connecting with other classes

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28. Kati Searcy
searcy@fultonschools.org
@katisearcy
@searcytag