sally wilson [email protected] january 25, 2012
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Overview
Some history Terminology and Twitter basics How Twitter is being used Twitter in Higher Education Examples Best Practices Twitter in the Classroom at Ryerson
Founded 2006 twttr First day 224 tweets
History
What is Twitter?
Twitter Usage Stats
40%
38%
9%
6%
4%4%
Pointless babble
Conversational
Pass-along value
Self-promotion
Spam
News
Content of Tweets
Get an Account
@DMPRyerson@RyersonLTO@ryersonlibrary@RyersonDMZ
@dhannalto@swilson416@restiandriati@blepharisma
Find people to follow
Twitter Terminology
Tweet – 140 characters
Retweeting
Hashtags
#TTC#Jan25#WEF#Ryerson#RUweb20
By keywords By hashtags #ryerson, #RUweb20,
#ttc, #WEF, #occupyWEF Twitter search (advanced options)
http://twitter.com/search
Twitter outside the classroom Breaking news Customer Service
Job Search
More Twitter Uses
Quick Answers Track Mail Shipments – UPS, FedEx Live Twittering Branding
Twitter in the ClassroomTwitter in the Classroom
Classroom CommunityBuilding Community
Sense of the World
Twitter Public Timeline https://twitter.com/public_timeline Trending topics
Track A Conference
Be in two places at once Can follow what delegates are saying
about the conference
Conferences to Track
Digital Book World #dbw12 Florida Educational Technology Conference
#EVflori4388 Learning Technologies 2011 #LT12uk New Media Training Institute #NMTI Int’l Conference on Data Mining
#SIAMSDM12 Association of America Colleges &
Universities #aacu12 Wine Bloggers’ Conference #BCWINECHAT
Follow a Professional/Company @Starbucks, @StarbucksJobs @kobo @NewMediaJim, @hrheingold
Find Some Plaid Personnas
Use Twitter to search for Plaid followed by the name of a world leader
Tweet your findingsEg. Found world leader @Plaid_xxxxx #RUweb20
Tweeting as Characters
Twitter in Hell Project@dante1300, @danteschmante, @hell_o_dante
Recreating Historical Events
Tools to Use with Twitter
Image uploaders url shorteners Poll creators Twitter Dashboards Geospatial visualization apps
Images
Upload images Link from
Twitter www.twitpic.co
m yfrog.com/
URL Shorteners
bitly.com goo.gl
Twitter Dashboards
www.tweetdeck.com www.hootsuite.com twitterfall.com
Twitter Visualization Tools http://twittermap.appspot.com/ http://trendsmap.com
Archiving
Hootsuite Archives http://hootsuite.com
The Archivist http://archivist.visitmix.com/
Twitter Adoption Matrix
Caveats/Best Practices
Not all students familiar with Twitter Digital divide Provide alternatives Privacy issues Make expectations clear
Resources - Examples 50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College
Classroom http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2009/06/08/50-ways-to-use-twitter-in-the-college-classroom/
Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/files/2011/11/Published-Twitter_Guide_Sept_2011.pdf
One Hundred Ways to Teach with Twitterhttp://www.emergingedtech.com/2010/02/100-ways-to-teach-with-twitter/
Delicious http://www.delicious.com/swilson416/twitter
Resources - Pedagogy
The effect of Twitter on college student engagement and gradeshttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2729.2010.00387.x/pdf
Practical Advice for Teaching with Twitterhttp://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/practical-advice-for-teaching-with-twitter/26416
A Framework for teaching with Twitterhttp://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/a-framework-for-teaching-with-twitter/26223
Twitter in the Classroom at Ryerson @lbeckste