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Twitter for Educators:

ACE Workshop

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Judy Arzt: @judyarzt jarzt@usj.edu

Michael Day: @mday666 mday@niu.edu

Trent Kays: @trentmkays trent@trentmkays.com

Roz Linder: @rozlinder rozlinder@gmail.com

Lee Skallerup: @readywriting lee.bessette@gmail.com

Bill Torgerson: @billtorg torgersw@stjohns.edu

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http://bit.ly/IeH24m

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Goals of the Session

Participants will:

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  • Learn how to use Twitter for multiple purposes including professional development
  • Connect with participants and with professional Twitter groups
  • Develop plans for using Twitter to give students practice with invention, collaboration, research, and conciseness.
  • Develop Twitter-based lessons and/or professional development plans to take home with you.

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Why Twitter?

  • Develop a professional, online, social media presence
  • Collaborate & share ideas with educators across the globe
  • Communicate broadly with a variety of professionals and organizations
  • Demonstrate for students the educational value of connecting with others via Twitter as social media
  • Develop a library of resources for future reference by archiving shared resources
  • Follow a conference virtually when you can’t be there in person or to connect w/ others while at conference

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Twitter Versus Other Social Media

  • Facebook fosters communicating with those you know
  • Twitter involves meeting others outside your personal circle and making global connections
  • Linkedin serves professional and employment networking needs
  • Instagram, Vine, and comparable sites foster quick sharing of photos and visuals
  • Twitter enables sharing a variety of media (text, hyperlinks, and photos)
  • Twitter enables participation in chats for sharing information with like-minded individuals (e.g., #engchat)

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Twitter Vocabulary

Tweeting:

140 characters max (including Twitter handle and any link)

Retweeting:

Sharing a tweet you find valuable to send to your followers

Favoriting:

Marking tweets you are interested in with the star so you can find them later & let tweeter know you like the information--helpful to favorite during a quick stream of tweets

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More Twitter Vocabulary

  • Hashtags # Share your message with a group who has a common interest (#engchat)

(list of educational hashtags: http://www.cybraryman.com/edhashtags.html )

  • Reply– Respond to someone else’s tweet (will be seen publicly by both your followers)
  • Direct Message- Send a private message to someone on Twitter (caution: don’t click on links in DM--could be spam/hacker)

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Suggestions of What to Tweet

  • Take photos & share them on Twitter: professional events, classroom scenes, student projects (tweet box has a place to upload photos, or send photos directly to Twitter via share option on device/app)
  • Share links to articles, resources, websites (include hashtag to reach a wide audience)
  • Ask questions or seek ideas using a hashtag
  • Share information about upcoming conferences & professional events
  • Tweet resources & information while attending conferences
  • Tweet w/ a class hashtag to communicate w/ students

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The Parts of Twitter Profile

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More About Profile Page

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Anatomy of a Twitter Profile Page

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Now let’s analyze the parts

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Features on the Profile Page Window

Following: check who you are following; when on another’s profile page, check who that person follows

Followers: those who added you to follow your tweets

Favorites: those tweets you marked by using the star on a tweet to favorite--click & will see list of tweets recently favorited

Lists: once you start creating Lists or Subscribing to Lists, this is how you access them (advanced)--you can check Lists on others’ Profile page

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Following and Followers

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Seeing Who Others Follow

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Favorites

Open Favorites list using the option from your Profile page:

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Recently Favorited Tweets

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Using Search Box

Search box helps to find information and to find tweets using #

Looking for recent tweets shared at NCTE conference. Search with #NCTE13. Presenters also included their session numbers with tweets. #NCTE13.

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Twitter “Toolbar”

Connect: use to check recent “Mentions” and “Interactions”

Search: powerful feature: search by word, phrase, and hashtags

Tweet box: one way to start a new tweet

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Connect Window:

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Search Results Using #

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What Are Lists

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Sample: List of English Teachers

https://twitter.com/JudyArzt/english/members

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Follow-Up to Weebly Session

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Click on image to access the List on Twitter.

Looking for Weebly website samples. No need to bend over backwards. Click on the Weebly Twitter public list image. Find the link to Weebly sites on individual’s Profile bio.

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Your assignment

  • Set up a Twitter account
  • If you have an account, help others set up one
  • Upload a photo and write a short bio for your profile
  • Send a few tweets to set up a tweet stream
  • Follow participants at the workshop
  • Gain some followers from workshop participants
  • Once you have sufficient # of followers, use the search box to find #ncte13 or #engchat and review tweets
  • Favorite some tweets or reply to some tweets found from #ncte13 or #engchat

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Your Assignment (cont’d.)

  • Practice sending tweets using a hashtag (see list in next slide)
  • Participate in 20-30 minute chat (at arranged time) using #ncte13
  • Option: Use #comments4kids to find links to student work to review & reply
  • Send tweets with links to resources (blogs, articles, etc.)
  • Add to the shared Google Doc (see link below)--if time in the workshop permits

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Collaborative Document: Ideas for Using Twitter in the Classroom and for Professional Development

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Some Hashtags to Check

#engchat

#globalclassroom

#edtechchat

#fycchat

#edchat (hectic stream of tweets--good place to tweet a question)

#cpchat (connected principals)

#ipaded

#literacy

#ccss

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Looking for more, see this comprehensivel list: http://www.cybraryman.com/edhashtags.html

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Looking for Authors (and Illustrators) on Twitter

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Google Doc List of Authors and Illustrators on Twitter

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Short List of Additional Resources

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Image Credits

Slide 1: cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by mkhmarketing: http://flickr.com/photos/mkhmarketing/8476983849/

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Slide 2: cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by Louise Docker: http://flickr.com/photos/aussiegall/513169054/

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Slide 3: cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo by Ilse: http://flickr.com/photos/ilse/3389565299/

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Slide 21: cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo by Michael Buist: http://flickr.com/photos/buistbunch/10912885356/

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Slide 24: cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo by Ken Varnum: http://flickr.com/photos/14296351@N00/9741003119/

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All others screen captures from the presenters’ accounts

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The following slides are an addendum for those interested in tools used in conjunction with Twitter.

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URL Shorteners:

Bitly.com

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Google URL Shortener

Add as an extension to a Chrome toolbar

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Available at the Chrome Store as an Extension

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Some Additional Info: Using Buffer

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Archiving Resources Discovered In A Twitter Link

Pocket: another extension to add to Chrome toolbar or add to your Twitter feed:

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Archiving Resources Discovered In A Twitter Link

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Diigo

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Diigo Extension

Select Save

Add tags

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Diigo App on Toolbar

Menu options when Diiglet clicked; select Bookmark