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Catherine Werst
October 28, 2009
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Emoticons and Polling
1. Raise hand and Emoticons
2. Polling options
When I hear “Twitter”, I think:
a) Yeah baby! I’ve been tweeting since ’06
b) Oh cool! Another new technology!
c) Is this new fad worth the
time & effort?
d) Oh no! Another new
technology…
e) That’s it, I’m faxing in
my intent to retire.
Image courtesy of despair.com
Statistics courtesy of Wolframalpha.com
 Free, real-time stream of 140-character
posts from people you “follow”
 Platform for you to share ideas, resources
in public or private
 Access to global, unfiltered stream of posts
 Synchronous & asynchronous
communication tool
 Functions not limited to members only
 Portable – mobile, desktop
Any user profile
that is made
public can be
viewed if you
know the
user name.
Tweets from
that user are
displayed in
chronological
order with some
hyperlinking.
 Important, popular, provoking “tweets” are
retweeted to wider audiences
 Ability to contact users outside your
network with @name salutation
 “Trending” topics displayed on site
 Filtering, searches and tagging
for tweets (#hashtags)
 search.twitter.com is the search engine
Twitter.com
When you log in
to Twitter, you can
post your Tweets
directly into the
interface, and
review the Tweets
of the users you
are following.
Other features
are found on the
right navigation.
1. Find someone interesting to follow
2. Click the “Follow” button
3. Their posts will now show up in your
timeline! Easy!
…If someone is too “noisy” for your taste,
simply click “Unfollow”
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Web sites shared via URL shortening
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&fieldkeywords=world+according+to+twitter&x=0&y=0
http://tinyurl.com/yg97r8w
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Metrics & Visualizations of word use
Not only humans using Twitter
Get ready for Google’s Social Search
launch with Twitter in a few weeks!
Search is open
and public, and
you may search
across all
posts by words
or hashtags.
Professional (or Personal) Learning Network
 Follow professionals who inspire you &
share your interests
 Find people, organizations that give you
resources and breaking news
 Ask your PLN for feedback
 Feed your PLN with resources, ideas
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Jump into Twitter for YOU first
Research the things that interest you
Be aware of Twittiquette
Think locally AND globally
“The animating genius behind Twitter will live on... that tactile
sense of your community is simply too much fun, too useful
— and it makes the group more than
the sum of its parts.”
– Clive Thompson, WIRED Magazine
 Talking about life
 Talking about their instructors
 Sharing assignment information
 Selling & buying textbooks
 Sharing work, cheating, encouraging
 Confessing, complaining, extolling
…on Twitter.
…Sometimes under their desks while you’re talking.
 Use a different account for teaching
 Show your tweets on your web site
(RSS, widgets)
 Pre-course information
 Talk up your textbook
 Promote library &
counseling services
 Demonstrate netiquette
 Virtual Office Hours
 Post assignments (use #hashtags!)
 Announcements (cancellation, grades)
 Supplemental web resources
 Highlight career opportunities
 Ruminate, link to your blog
 Ask key concept questions
All without having to share a phone number!
 Research, post links to news, articles
 Tweet the lecture for extra credit
 Progressive stories (#hashtags!)
 Chapter summaries
 Tweet a field trip
 Lecture Hall discussion tweets (project
on a smart screen)
 Link to exemplary student work
 Respond to poll or survey (twickers?)
 Post images/music/video via Twitter
 Interview a classmate
 Haiku or iambic pentameter
Powerpoint plug-in for Office 2007 (Windows)
 Read events in other languages
 Learn about other countries, cultures
 News about specific disciplines
 Follow political events or politicians
 Find opposing views
 Multicultural music & videos (blip.fm)
 Learn from & speak with experts
 Develop professional manners
 Follow tweeted medical procedures
 Experience NASA events
 Get geological info (volcano, quakes)
 Find internships or jobs
 Discover local Tweetups
 Conference information in real time
Wordle.net
Twyric.com
Timetweets.com
1. Build your Professional Learning Network
2. Follow a small group at first, include friends
& fellow hobbyists
 Join interesting chats (#edchat, #techtrust)
and meet like-minded people
1. “Weed out” your follow list on occasion to
fine-tune the tweet stream
2. Play with access beyond twitter.com
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 Resource links
 Videos
 Handy applications
 PLUS annotated list of all
classroom ideas!
Q&A
Please remember to share your
Twitter user names in the chat
window if you want new Tweeps!
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Catherine Werst
[email protected]
Twitter.com/cat8canary
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