Twitter Hashtags

Community Connect

Thursday February 2nd 2012

Penny Bentley & David Simpson

8pm EDT

TWITTER HASHTAGSfor

Community Driven Networking

HASHTAGS

I follow,I’m followed

So, what are

they?

@confused

Any Ideas what hashtags are for? Please write them here.

A Twitter handle is the username you

chose for your account.

It belongs to you.

Please go to your twitter page and make a tweet ending in #ozseries

blah blah blah #ozseries

Now we are having a hashtag conversation

#ozseries

#edchat http://youtu.be/ZuIxpz6UklE

#mathchat#edchat

#edtech

#education#globalclassroom #football

#tonyabbot

#justsayn

#qanda

#news

#egypt

#nswfloods

#abctv

education

#tafe

sport#afl

#london2012

#maths

#vicpln #cricket#ipaded

news

TV

chats

#quotes

other

uprisings#pencilchat

#plankingconferences#twitteredtalk

#rscon3

A Twitter hashtag groups people

together who want to talk about the same topic or who are at

the same place.

let’s lurk

• Go to your home page on twitter• Search #egypt• #qldfloods• #sid2012 • #edchat• Something that interests you• Come back and tell us a few words about a useful # you found

# anyone can make their own hashtag, just search for it first to make sure it isn’t already in use.

# are powerful because your tweets are seen by people who don’t follow you.

# are useful to use as a backchannel when attending a conference.

.…a few words

Tweeting…some examples

#mathchat

• Video re #edchat http://youtu.be/ZuIxpz6UklE• Twitter hashtag search…when creating an new # search

here to make sure it isn’t being used for something else https://twitter.com/#!/search-home

• A Twitteraholic’s Guide to tweets, hashtags, and all things Twitter http://theedublogger.com/2010/07/08/a-twitteraholics-guide-to-tweets-hashtags-and-all-things-twitter/

• Recent article on Washington Post: Teachers take to Twitter to improve craft and commiserate. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/teachers-take-to-twitter-to-improve-craft-and-commiserate/2012/01/19/gIQAGv8UGQ_story.html

• http://cybraryman.com/chats.html

References

Thank’s for Coming Along

#ozseries

http://shabbyblogs.com/