twitter cpd - why use twitter to create your own personal learning network

Using Twitter & Blogs for Learning and Professional DevelopmentFlora Richards FRHRichards@aldenham.com

What is it?

• What are you doing?

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Signing up: twitter.com

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Signing up: twitter.com

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Signing up: twitter.com

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Signing up: twitter.com

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Now what?

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Follow who I follow

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Follow who @teachaldenham follows

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Who to follow? Who to follow?

• @TeachAldenham

• @AldenhamRS

• @AldFilmclub• @AldenhamEcoGarden• @GeoAldenham• @AldenhamSchool• @AldenhamLibrary • @TomBennett71 (Tom is ‘A Teacher

who Writes’ ITT and Behaviour inc. TES)

• @beingbrilliant (Andy Cope is an author and happiness expert)

• @TeacherToolkit

• @SeanHarford (HMI and Ofsted’s National Director for Schools Policy)

• @BeyondBehaviour (tweets about Behaviour Management/Strategy)

• @DeputyMitchell (Blogging/EdTech)

Building your PLN

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Your new profile page

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Your new profile page

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My Twitter home page

@AldenhamRS profile page

Tweets that mention me

The ‘language’ of Twitter

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Conversations and talking@name

Retweets - RT• Sharing• Amplifying• Esteeming• ‘Liking’

Direct Messages (DM)

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Topics/hashtags

• Apprentice #apprentice• Question Time #bbcqt• UKEdchat #ukedchat• Conferences and events #ngflconf• #TMAld • #UKEdChat

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Hashtagged topics

Hashtags

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Follower management

• Check each new follower• Look who people are talking to• Look at lists• Look who follows who

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Privacy? Spam?

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Some golden rules

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What else?

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What else?

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AldenhamRS blog

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AldenhamRS.weebly.com

AldenhamRS blog

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TeachAldenham.com

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TeachAldenham.com

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• Teaching & Learning News

• CPD

• Teach Meets

• Inspiration

TeachAldenham.com

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• Weekly posts during term

The 10 stages of Twitter

Further reading

CPD Provided by Twitshttp://ianaddison.net/?p=80

Building your Twitter Network http://bit.ly/jycFKi

10 life lessons we can learn from twitter http://bit.ly/lUnLuy

• My username @

From UKEdChat monthly magazine

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