twitter cpd - why use twitter to create your own personal learning network
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Using Twitter & Blogs for Learning and Professional DevelopmentFlora Richards [email protected]
What is it?
• What are you doing?
• 140 Characters• Links• Photos
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The Banal
The useful
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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Keeping it brief bit.lyHow do you fit this:
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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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Subtle: No thanks, don’t want to hear
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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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• Write a short blog post for us!
• 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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ukedchat.com/magazine/