a teacher’s introduction to twitter
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A Teacher’s Introduction to Twitter
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What is Twitter?
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Twitter is a social network for the sending and receiving of short 140 character updates between yourself and your followers
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Twitter has around 200 million users and 140 million tweets per day covering everything from haircuts to the war in #libya
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Many services exist alongside Twitter from tweeting about news stories to seeing tweets geotagged on a map – the use is up to you
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Twitter has a number of features you need to get your head round in order to become a successful tweeter
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To write a tweet on your main screen you type a tweet in the box which counts down number of characters available
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This tweet will appear in your own profile and in the streams of other people who follow you
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To follow a user you click on their follow button – they don’t have to follow you – their tweets appear in your main stream
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Twitter has a number of user suggestion features – try them as they may give you some interesting people
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To send a message to a user you write their user name with an @ in front of it eg @sharland this is a public message
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You can send private DM messages but that person has to be following you first
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Hashtags are words with a # infront of them – these become searchable across Twitter
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Hashtags can be used to follow virtually any topic eg #libya #war #maths or you can create your own tag eg #ryegeography
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If you see a tweet in your main stream you like you can Retweet it so that it appears in your own followers tweet streams
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Retweeting is a useful way to broadcast interesting or useful tweets to your followers who may not follow the original tweeter
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Tweets can be saved as favourites which can be managed further with bookmarking services like Delicious.com
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So why use Twitter?
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For teachers Twitter is about being able to connect and share information and resources with peers from around the world
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Twitter can also be used to inspire classroom discussion surrounding ongoing and immediate events in the world
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From having conversations about issues to exchanging ideas and resources think of it as a living resource bank
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Think of Twitter as not only a new form of
communication but a new form of networking that
will help pupils understand their world
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Ultimately the use is up to you
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All slides written within 140 characters
find me on twitter @sharland
and thank you to all who helped