How Tweet IT Is: Expanding your professional learning network

Expanding your professional learning network

Penny Coutas EdD Candidate Murdoch University [email protected]

4 Seasons Conference French, Indonesian, Italian and Spanish Language Teachers Adelaide, September 2009

Keep standing if you… 

…chat to colleagues about work 

…chat to colleagues about other stuff 

…belong to a professional (teachers’) associa<on 

…use email 

…use Facebook 

…have colleagues as “friends” on FB 

…have students as “friends” on FB 

…have a blog or other website 

…use a RSS Reader 

…are here mainly for the food 

Social Networking =/ 

Educa<onal Networking =/ 

Professional Networking 

Social Networking =/ 

Educa<onal Networking =/ 

Professional Networking 

But it’s all personal networking 

Expanding your professional (personal) learning network 

PLN yourself at hLp://suewaters.wikispaces.com 

What do people tweet about? 

Tweet to your followers 

Follow others 

Reply using @ 

Private message using d 

ReTweet using RT 

Create convos and trends using # 

Generated by TwiLer Friend Wheel hLp://thomas‐fletcher.com/friendwheel/twiLer/ 

Expand & enhance my professional circle 

Learn from the influencers 

What has their aLen<on? 

Learn from the teachers 

What has their aLen<on? 

The best of the web 

Backchannel Form a backchannel 

Get help 

Iran elec<ons 

MarrioL & Ritz bombings 

Wil Anderson @ #Logies 

Language Teachers 

Get to know those who know 

Not just real people: Bots too! 

hLp://www.ideastoinspire.co.uk/twiLer.htm 

Students can use TwiLer in their own PLN 

But don’t assume that they do already 

Mash and mix it up! 

hLp://www.twiLervision.com 

Find people you already know 

hLp://twibbon.com/ 

Find like‐minded users 

Applica<on database: hLp://twitdom.com/ 

Get a client 

Learn by doing 

hLp://mashable.com/guidebook/twiLer/ 

Find a guide (person or other) 

Set your privacy (and purpose) 

Penny Coutas EdD Candidate Murdoch University [email protected]

4 Seasons Conference French, Indonesian, Italian and Spanish Language Teachers Adelaide, September 2009

Where credits are not given the images are my own. People are pictured with permission. Twitter screenshots from http://www.twitter.com and Tweetie on my iPhone.

Slides 1 & 67: Background from http://www.twitter.com Other backgrounds: http://limeshot.com/2008/twitter-backgrounds Slides 7-9: http://www.facebook.com Slide 10: http://blogs.murdoch.edu.au/pcoutas Slide 11: http://reader.google.com Slide 12: Photo by Kate Reitzenstein Slide 15: http://www.myspace.com ; http://www.facebook.com Slide 16: http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com Slide 18: ‘All about me’ Uploaded on December 27, 2008 by mtsofan to Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtsofan/3142398920/ Slide 19: ‘PLE as subset of PLN’ Uploaded on December 18, 2008 by catspyjamasnz to Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/catspyjamasnz/3118564555/ Slide 20: ‘Twitter Bandwagon’ Uploaded on October 15, 2008 by Matt Hamm to Flickr http://www.jarche.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/twitterbandwagon_matthamm.jpg Slide 21: http://suewaters.pbworks.com Slides 24, 26, 27, 44, 49, 65: MinXuan Lee http://www.slideshare.net/minxuan/how-twitter-changed-my-life-presentation Used with permission. Slides 28: Twitter Mosaic http://sxoop.com/twitter/mosaic.pl Slides 33, 54 & 62: http://www.mashable.com Slides 35, 36, 57: Twitter Friendwheel http://thomas-fletcher.com/friendwheel/twitter/generate.php Slide 40: ‘Information hydrant’ Uploaded on June 20, 2008 by Will Lion to Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/2595497078/ Slides 45 & 46: http://pistachioconsulting.com/twitter-iran/ Slide 48: http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/04/celebrities-tweet-the-logies/ Slide 53: http://www.ideastoinspire.co.uk/twitter.htm Slide 55: http://www.twittervision.com Slide 59: http://twitter4teachers.pbworks.com/Foreign-Language-Teachers Slide 60: http://blog.hubspot.com Slide 61: http://www.blaugh.com Slide 66: ‘Travelling feet: Beyond fallen flowers & grass…’ Uploaded on January 6, 2008 by psycherika to FLickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaleidosopicpsyche/2174781610/ Slide 66: Betcher, C., & Lee, M. (2009). The Interactive Whiteboard Revolution: Teaching With IWBs. Camberwell, Vic: ACER Press.

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