Micro-Blogging
What is Twitter?
Social Network
A Way to Communicate with a GLobal Audience
Twitter is a social network site that has quickly become one of the fastesT growing Learning tools for educators. In 140 characters or less educators are connecting with others from around the world to share resources, take part in a Global discussion, stay informed, give and receive "just in time" Teaching and Learning.The same can happen for your students. Create a ClassRoom Twitter account to introduce your (13 year olds and younger) Students to the connected world of a Learning Network.
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Getting Started
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Create a Twitter account (http://www.twitter.com) by choosing a username (The shorter the better).
Important: fill out your profile (160 characters or less) identifying that you are a classroom tweeting, the age level of the students, as well as a geographic location (could be region, state or country). Upload an avatar (don't stay an egg!)Let others know what your class hopes to share and learn with and from others.
Choose your Privacy Settings: Allow everyone to see your tweets or only let people who you have approved see and follow you.
Start following other educators and classrooms tweeting. See who they follow and decide if your learning journey would benefit from their contributions.
Username
Profile
Avatar
Settings Who to Follow?
Who can follow Us?
Tweeting
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How can you use Twitter in the Classroom?
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There are many ways to take advantage of the Power of Twitter in the Classroom. Assign one of your students to be the "Twitterer" of the Day to document Step by Step what the class is learning during the school day (official Scribe)Connect with Pre-Arranged Mentors who will push your students thinking to the next level.Tweet as a class (especially with younger students) to review at the end of the day what occured during the school day.Use Twitpic or another photo service to share images of learning moments from the classroom.
Share & Document Research
Connect with Mentors
Gather Real World Data
Send reminders
Document Classroom Learning
Keep Parents in the Loop
Share questions that you are wondering about
Communicate with Peers, Experts,
Eye-Witnesses Around the World
Share links to Student work to encourage
authentic feedback
Don't Gossip about
someone else
Twitter Etiquette
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Give Credit where credit is due
Follow People who add value to your
learning
Think Quality over QUantity
Netiquette is defined as the "acceptable" way how to communicate on the Internet.Learning acceptable behavior is part of digital Citizenship, one of the core literacies of the 21st century.
Remind your students of your classroom rules and emphasize that "real world" etiquette, rules and consequences transfer to online behavior as well.
Discuss copyright with your students. It is common practice to give the original author of a tweet credit by including their @username with a "RT" (Re-Tweet). When quoting a passage of a website, it is appropriate to link to the original site and/or mention the author with @username (if they have a Twitter account).
Respond to your followers
Be polite
Use appropriate languageAdd
something of value to the conversation
Pose questions
you are wondering
about
The first Tweet
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share Something you have learned recently
Tweet about
something that will help
someone else
Link to your classroom Blog or
school website
Be an Information Filter for others?
share Something unique
about your geographic location
Give a book recommendation
Write a six- Word
Story
Tweet as a
Historical or Book
Character
Write a poem
Share an interesting fact
What is a Quality Tweet?
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Don't use "Awesome","Great", "Cool" to
describe a resource you are sharing
Add a Resource
Link
SpecificInformative
PRecise
140 Characters
or Less
Add value in addition to the
Resource
We want students to produce and contribute Quality content. Before they click the "tweet" button, Students should ask themselves if their tweet:
* is Informative?* documents their learning?* Asks questions?* responds to someone else's question?* Curate information for specific Audience?* Links to quality resources?* Adds Value to any links re-tweeted?* states its intent clearly?* is globally Conscious?* is grammatically correct?* is spelled correctly?
As students tweet, they learn about Word Choices, clarity, the writing process (Write/Revise/Edit/publish), networking skills, Research Skills, Summarizing Skills, global Awareness and connections.
Creative
Rich in Content
Clear
Give students as much ownership as possible over their Tweets
Logistics
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Assign Twitterer of the Day
Have everyone tweet on paper and then vote on best Quality Tweet to publish
Assign several
students to tweet
about Specific
SubjectsAdd your Twitter Stream to your classroom
Blog
Make Tweeting part
of your Classroom routine. It
should be an integral part, not a separate
subject
Teach Parents how to
subscribe to Class' Twitter
Account
Twitter Vocabulary
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RTRe-Tweet
Tweet someone else's Tweet, giving them credit
by using "RT" before their @username
@Mention
use @username to respond to someone directly or get their
attention
DMDirect Message
Send someone, who follows you a
private message
TwitPic Create an account
with twitpic.com and email relevant
images as a tweet
#Hashtag
a hashtag connects a
certain topic or
conversation together.
Twitterverse
Tweeting
Tweeting Classrooms
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@5thmjgds
@HRAGrasyon
@2mgems
@StMaryLibrary
@R9_RusselLST@mrstgSkiddos
@Krebsclass
@Gill_Villians
@Pod4fennemore@Grade2YIS
@MDEkinderkids
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about using Twitter with Students?
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Articles and Resources for
Twitter in Education.
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