Twitter Tutorial for teachers
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ICT Skills: Communication and collaborationCommunicating via Micro-blogging
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By the end of this e-torial, you will be able to:Communicate using a micro-blogging systemCreate a learning networkLearn on the fly!
This e-torial makes use of the following programmes or tools: Browsers: Internet Explorer/Firefox Twitter (an online tool)
Outcomes
Tools
Basic ICT SkillsCommunicating via Micro-blogging
Basic ICT Skills: Micro bloggingIndex
What is micro-blogging Some motivation to twitter (or not) What do your tweets say about you? Get twittering!
Sign up Update your settings Create your first tweet Some guidelines Reading and replying to tweets Re-tweeting
Create your twitter learning network Directories, lists and networks Followers
More things you can do with twitter: Twitter straight from your cell phone Direct messages Change your profile picture Finding stuff: Using Hashtags # More resources and reading
Discussion
What are you doing right now?
Tell me all about it in 140 or less words!!!
Basic ICT SkillsWhat is Micro-blogging?
Some reading….http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-blogging Nine reasons why you should use twitter in schools# Interesting Ways to use Twitter in the Classroom (a collaborative effort)
Why would I like to know about what you
are doing all the time?
Video: Click here to Play
Basic ICT Skills: Micro bloggingSome motivation to twitter (or not)Cosand became a Twitterer about a year ago, and he now considers Twitter one of his best sources of real-time professional development. "I'm able to get information and find opportunities I wouldn't have been able to gather on my own," he says.
Teachers who are fans say they appreciate the easy-to-use tool as a quick way to network with colleagues. They like being able to ask and answer questions, learn from experts, share resources, and react to events on the fly.
Critics argue that it's nothing but a high tech distraction. Meanwhile, new ideas for using Twitter in education continue to emerge and evolve. The best way to weigh the pros and cons of this free tool is to try it for yourself
What articles are you looking at?
Live reporting from an event
Check out this cool new resource
Source : http://www.edutopia.org/twitter-professional-development-technology-microblogging
Basic ICT SkillsWhat do your tweets say about you?
Are the tweets helpful?
Would you like to have him/her in your network?
What does this person do for a
living?
What is s(h)e tweeting about?
Basic ICT SkillsWhat do your tweets say about you?
What does this person do for a
living?
What is s(h)e tweeting about?
Are the tweets helpful?
Would you like to have him/her in your network?
Basic ICT SkillsWhat do your tweets say about you?
What does this person do for a
living?
What is s(h)e tweeting about?
Are the tweets helpful?
Would you like to have him/her in your network?
Basic ICT SkillsWhat do your tweets say about you?
What does this person do for a
living?
What is s(h)e tweeting about?
Are the tweets helpful?
Would you like to have him/her in your network?
Basic ICT Skills: Micro bloggingActivity: Register for a Twitter account
Use Twitter to tell “the world” about the challenges you face as a subject advisor/teacherGo to www.twitter.com (or type it into the address bar)
Click on “Sign up now”
ACTIVITY
Get ready to start a learning journey……..
Basic ICT Skills: Micro bloggingActivity: Register for a Twitter account
Type in your: Full names
(Twitter is about real people!)
Username (Make it relevant)
Password (choose something that you will remember)
E-mail address Type the code
accurately Click on
Create my account
Peter Pumpkin
Peterp
*************PeterP@gmail.com
Newins spondent
You can skip the next few twitter screens, and get straight into twittering or….
Basic ICT Skills: Micro bloggingActivity: Add your friends
This feature makes it easy to find your friends if you have a Gmail/Yahoo/ AOL e-mail accountClick on your provider (eg Gmail)Enter you Gmail address and passwordContinue
What if I do not have a Gmail, Yahoo or AOL
e-mail?
Tick your friends that you want to follow
Click follow
Click on …..
Basic ICT Skills: Micro bloggingDecide who (not) to follow
Do not follow anybody who you have not checked out first- click on Skip this step
You do not have to follow the tweople presented here….
I am not a sheep
Basic ICT Skills: Micro bloggingTwitter: Update your settings
Click on Settings Fill in your real name
otherwise we will not be able to find you!
Your username and e-mail should be filled in already
Change your time zone to(GMT+2) Pretoria
Fill in your web/blog address or (www.thutong.org.za)
One line Bio: A little about who you are
Location: District + Town Click on Save
Peter Pumpkin
http://www.thutong.org.za
Mathematics subject advisor
Pretoria South Africa
Basic ICT Skills: Micro bloggingActivity: Get twittering!
Go ahead, tell us about the problems and challenges you face as a teacher/subject advisor.
Remember you only have 140 characters!
Update your status!
If you cannot say it in 140 characters, feel free to do a few tweets…….tweet ……tweet……..
You cannot POSSIBLY have THAT many problems now can you???
Basic ICT Skills: Micro bloggingTwitter is tweet: A few guidelines
DO:Use good languageShare good learning resourcesAsk questions and give answers/opinionsThink before you tweetAdd value to your network………
DON’T:Use ALL CAPS (it is screaming)Tweet in an “altered state”Forget to credit those tweets that you are passing on (re-tweeting- RT)………
Remember that your tweets are very public
Basic ICT Skills: Micro bloggingActivity: Reading and replying to tweets
Tweets are in reverse chronological order, according to time, with the newest at the top.
If you click on Home, you will see all the tweets of the people you are following
If you want to reply to a tweet hit the reply arrow or include @theotherpersonsusername in your tweet
To read anybody’s tweets, click on their twitter name eg www.twitter.com/heyjudeonline
If you want to find a specific tweet again you can mark it as a favourite, using the star next to the tweet.
Basic ICT Skills: Micro bloggingRe-tweeting
Re-tweeting is a way to pass on valuable links and resources from your network to your followers
Copy and paste the original tweet into the Update window
Add RT for “retweet” (it is short!) in front of the @persons’s name
Re-tweeting people’s tweets also make them aware that you value their contribution and they will probably follow you, building a stronger network
kjarrettRT @shareski RE: PLCs. "If everything is mandated and structured. It fails. Same with classrooms."
RT
Basic ICT Skills: Micro bloggingCreate your twitter learning network
Important to read the person’s Bio or blog and look at their tweets before you decide to follow him or her…….
A colleague, teacher…. Someone I can learn
with/from… Someone who will share… An expert in the field Someone……?
Click on Find People Type name in search window Click search Look if it is the person that
you want to follow Click follow!!!!!!
Wesley Fryer
Who should I follow?
How?
Basic ICT Skills: Micro bloggingCreate your twitter learning network
Another effective way to find twitter learning partners:Find someone who share the same interests / subject area as you. Click on their picture and choose FollowClick on THEIR network and explore/follow some of their contacts
Some of my learning Gurus!!!
Some teachers!!!
Conferences
Some friends!!
If someone does not “live up to your expectations”, remove them from your network
Basic ICT Skills: Micro bloggingCreate your twitter learning network
More ways to find twitter learning and teaching partners:Consult educator directories, social networks and lists:
Twitter4teachers (A global wiki to add to) Educators on twitter (add yourself to the
directory here) South African educators or join sateachers
twibe Twitterpacks Top 100 edu-tweeps (twitterers/tweople) ;-) Tweet4education (A social network of
twittering teachers writing a book to help teachers to twitter!)
Twitter for professional development
Good idea: Go through at least 2 pages of a person’s tweets before deciding if the person will be of value on your learning pathway!
Basic ICT Skills: Micro bloggingFollowers
If a person has an undesirable profile you can block them from following you! But remember, your tweets might just educate them!
That is a good thing. It means that you are adding value to the twitter-sphere and growing your learning network!You will get an e-mail telling you that someone is following youGo to their profile page, read their tweets, Bio/blog and decide if you want to follow them back or notAt the top of their page, click on FollowYou will be able to send them a direct private message once they are following you
Help, I am being followed!!!!!
Basic ICT Skills: Micro bloggingMore things you can do with Twitter
Twitter straight from your cell phone Just send an SMS to
447624801423(The cell phone that you send from must be the one registered with Twitter! See Devices under settings)
Send meeting notifications
Twitter a meeting from your phone
Your twitter can become a notice board for your teachers…..?
Send a direct message (DM) to someone
Basic ICT Skills: Micro bloggingSend Direct messages
Click on Direct messages Click on the dropdown
and select the person Type your message Send
Will this message be private or will it show up in
my timeline?
Your intended person will receive the twitter in his/her e-mail inbox as well!
Video: Click to play
You can only send DM’s to someone who is following you.
Basic ICT Skills: Micro bloggingChange/Update Your Bio
Decide how much of yourself you would like to show in your Bio. Stick to your interests/
occupation rather than give out too much personal information!
Link your Bio to your blog or school/organisational website.
To change your Bio or website address, go to Settings (See slide 12)
We always need to be aware of how much information we divulge, whether it is in our Bio or in our tweets!
If you feel strongly about your privacy, you can protect your twitter account, which means that people have to ask to follow you
What about privacy?
Do I need to have a profile picture?
Basic ICT Skills: Micro bloggingChange your profile picture
A profile picture gives people a visual sense of who you are / would like to be / see yourself……What do these pictures tell you about the person?Who is the….Librarian, Maths teacher, Academic, Learning activist, Gardener, Primary school teacher, Lifelong learner, Technology director, Biology teacher, English teacher ????
Who are these people????
Your picture becomes a connection point! So please change this boring brown one for one that makes sense…..
Basic ICT Skills: Micro bloggingChange your profile picture Click on Settings
Picture Browse to
a suitable picture of yourself on your PC A real picture of yourself
is encouraged! If you are shy, upload an
Avatar (a picture representing you)
You can also change the background of your main twitter page (Settings Design Upload a picture
Basic ICT Skills: Micro bloggingFinding stuff: Using Hashtags #
How can I find specific tags and
tweets about topics?
Click on Home Type in your search term in the
search window on the right eg mathematics or subjectadvisors
It is important to “tag” your tweet by inserting a “marker” (a searchable) word into it using hashtags #. Create a tag that will be unique to your topic or group
When you twitter about twitter and how
it can be used for teaching and learning, please use the hashtag
#twitter4ed
Maths
Basic ICT Skills: Micro bloggingMore resources and reading
Twitter handbook for teachersA basic down to earth guide
Twitter for education tagged resources On Delicious On Diigo
A search across the tags education and twitter using these book-marking systems
Twitter search for the hash-tags #twitter and #education or #twitter4ed
I better join the twitter revolution!!!!
There are also lots of applications (software) that have been created to accommodate the use of twitter for all kinds of purposes
Basic ICT Skills: Micro bloggingDiscussion: Twitter the following questions
How can a micro-blogging tool accommodate communication and learning?
What drawbacks can there be in using a tool like this one?
What skills will you need to use tools like these?
If the tool must fit the purpose, how, when and where will you use this tool as a SA/teacher?
This e-torial was developed by maggiev for the
Department of Education for use by subject advisors and teachers in
South Africa
All e-turials can be found on the
Thutong portal:www.thutong.org.za
Basic ICT Skills: Micro bloggingAbout this Presentation information
Follow some tweets:www.twitter.com/maggievwww.twitter.com/thutong
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