2013 twitter for librarians and teachers

Twitter: the Who, the How, and the Why

By Beth Redford @bethredfordDynamic Landscapes Conference

May 17, 2013

Twitter is the service

Tweet is a noun…and a verb

Username ex. @bethredford

Vocabulary

Jennifer Malphy@jmalphy

I'm the Library Media Specialist and District Technology Coordinator for Kickapoo Area Schools in Viola, WI. I'm a wife and mother to two little boys.

Planning for Summer Checkouts pic.twitter.com

**reconstructed Tweet – couldn’t find the original! – BRphoto courtesy of Jennifer Malphy

Amy works in Virginia

Robin works in Ohio

Kim works in Massachusetts

Map image by user:Theshibboleth on Wikipedia.com, retrieved 5/7/2012Used under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license

Twitter is:

A microblogging service

The world’s biggest, most up to date annotated bibliography!

A place to share information

Connections

For collaborative projects

Ask questions, make requests

Grade Four Students Become Vermont Experts

Favorites

Use them to collect resources

Can automatically save to Diigo

Hashtags and Chats

# makes it searchable #tlchat, #VSLA – all day

http://cybraryman.com/chats.html

#edchat - Tuesdays noon and 7 pm

Other Uses

school or library Twitter accounts @resvt @RESVTlibrary

Classroom Twitter accounts @hajdunhomeroom@vermontkkids123

Tips for Signing Up

Username – helpful if it relates to your real name, also if it’s short

Put in a (real) picture and description when you get a chance

Signup Steps• Install Twitter app or go to twitter.com• Sign up! Short username, real name, and real

pic if possible• Search and Follow @bethredford• Find @bethredford’s Lists• Find BethEducatorsToFollow or

BethLibrariansToFollow• Read the Tweets, Follow the people who look

interesting

Twitter bird image from https://twitter.com/logo

BethEducatorsToFollow

BethLibrariansToFollow