Learn2Tweet: Twitter is a Must-Have Tool for Building Your Personal Learning Network
San Bernardino EdTechTeam Summit
September 17 & 18 , 2016
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Jane Lofton
Teacher Librarian
now “in the wild”
@jane_librarian
About Me
Jane Lofton
@jane_librarian
Teacher Librarian now “in the wild”
Google Certified Innovator & Trainer
Lifelong learner & reader, Ed tech geek, blogger, tweeter, activist
Let’s connect!
Please follow me and I’ll follow back!
Why Twitter?
Why Twitter?
Let’s hear from some Twitter rockstars ...
All the input was solicited via Twitter!
First, get your feet wet ….
Don’t have an account yet?
Start by lurking a while . . .
without an account -
start searching for keywords or hashtags (#)
How to search
Enter a hashtag, keyword, or @handle
#gafesummit
How to search
Click for newest results
Click Live for live tweets
Enter your search
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Anatomy of a Tweet
Menu Bar
Some Vocabulary
# = Hashtag
RT @handle = Retweet
MT @handle = Modified RT
via instead of RT
DM = Direct message (private)
Likes - saves to your Likes List & notifies tweep
Power of the Hashtag #
Keywords on steroids ...
Search effectively for topics, events, activities
Get your tweets noticed by topics, events, activities, audience
Power of the Hashtag #
Some to start with:
#tlchat - school library “must”
#gafesummit
#caedchat
#edtech
#edchat
Unsure of a good hashtag for a topic?
Start by searching for keywords, then look for hashtags in results
Create an Account
Let’s do it!
Go to twitter.com and click Sign Up
Skip all the offers to customize & help you follow people - we’ll do that later
* If you already have an account with your email and don’t want to use that one, use the gmail +n trick to create a new account with that same email
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Account settings
Give thought to these right
now:
Do as soon as
you can:
Make your 160 Bio characters count!
Send your first Tweet
Click to add photos
Toggle location on/off
Characters remaining of the 140 quota
All links count as 22 characters
Images count as 24 characters
Need help with a first tweet?
Try this:
I’m at the OC #gafesummit becoming Twitter savvy with @jane_librarian
Better yet, add another hashtag & link:
I’m at the OC #gafesummit becoming #Twittersavvy with @jane_librarian Session slides at http://bit.ly/l2tsb
Account settings to do soon
Check and adjust Security and Privacy settings
But please don’t set your account to protect tweets …
You won’t get followers! You won’t build a network!
If you change your mind about your handle, you can change it here
Account settings to do soon
Check and adjust Notifications
Finding people to follow
Look for:
Who your colleagues & esteemed leaders follow
Finding people to follow
Look for:
Your colleagues’/esteemed leaders’ lists
Finding people to follow
Look for:
People who post in chats you attend, hashtags you search
What to check before following?
Bio
Who they follow
What they tweet about
Who follows them
Some starter recommendations
A few follow ideas of presenters at this summit:
Some of teacher librarian rock stars:
@joycevalenza- Joyce Valenza�@NikkiDRobertson - Nikki Robertson�@GwynethJones - Gwyneth Jones�@shannonmmiller - Shannon Miller�@mluhtala - Michelle Luhtala�@jenniferlagarde - Jennifer LaGarde�
@edtechteam - EdTechTeam
@mimg1225 - Monica I. Martinez
@jheil65 - Jeffery Heil
@deelanier - Dee Lanier
What to tweet?
Links to great sites, blog
postings you discover
photo: opensource.com
What to tweet?
Links to your own blog
postings, website
photo: opensource.com
What to tweet?
Images, videos, vines
photo: opensource.com
What to tweet?
Responses to other tweets - it’s all about conversation
photo: opensource.com
What to tweet?
Ask questions - to individuals & hashtags
photo: opensource.com
What to tweet?
Quotes, comments from conferences, presentations
photo: opensource.com
What to tweet?
Share events, activities in your classroom, library, school, elsewhere
What to tweet?
RTs - retweets & MTs - modified retweets - & try to add to it
photo: opensource.com
What to tweet?
Thank you’s, responses, & favorites when people mention or RT you
What to tweet?
Causes you care about
photo: opensource.com
What to tweet?
Some just fun stuff 10 - 20 %
Share your personality
photo: opensource.com
Live Twitter Chats
Scheduled, live discussions, always based on a hashtag
Try #TLAP @6:00 PM Mondays & #EdTechAfterDark @7:00 PM Mondays
#caedchat @8:00 PM Sundays
List of Educational Chats:
bit.ly/TWITTERCHATS (select the archive tab at the bottom for a complete list)
Comprehensive chats at Participate Learning
For Teacher Librarians, #TLChat 5 PM Second Mondays
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Tweeting with Students
Encourage students to tweet as part of building a positive digital footprint.
Tweeting with Students
Have students look for experts in the field they are researching, even contact them with questions
Tweeting with Students
Have students take on the identity of fictional, mythological or historical figures
Instructions for a mythology project I have done with students
Tweeting with Students
Use Twitter examples to teach close reading of text
Tweeting with Students
PR for your school activities
Reminders of activities, tasks
More Twitter features and extras
Check & subscribe to other people’s lists for follow ideas
Twitter Lists
Tools to use with Twitter
Create public or private lists to view subsets of people you follow
Twitter Lists
Tools to use with Twitter
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Some examples of IFTTT “recipes”:
IFTTT
Tools to use with Twitter
My Twitter to diigo recipe:
Tools to use with Twitter
Follow multiple feeds
Tools to use with Twitter
Schedule tweets
Tools to use with Twitter
Tweet from different or multiple accounts
Tools to use with Twitter
Twitter newspapers - subscribe, create
Tools to use with Twitter
Easily compile tweets into a story
archive Twitter chats
Tools to use with Twitter
Twitter now counts ALL links as 23 characters …. but bit.ly is still a valuable tool
Share any webpage to Twitter
Track clicks on a link
Customize links
Tools to use with Twitter
Please don’t leave this summit without:
I’m here to help with any of this throughout the summit (and after!)
Thanks for coming!
Questions? Session comes with life-time tech support :
Special thanks to SlidesCarnival for the presentation template