Why Twitter?

A Presentation for Teacher LibrariansBy Beth Redford @bethredford

Dynamic Landscapes ConferenceMay 11, 2012

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

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!

Twitter is the service

Tweet is a noun…and a verb

Username ex. @bethredford

Vocabulary

Signing Up

Twitter.com

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

Who to follow?@joycevalenza @sducharme@jenniferlagarde @MrSchuReads@buffyjhamilton @shannonmmiller@cybraryman1 @AuntyTech @PWKidsBookshelf @imcguy@classicsixbooks @SLJournal@jmalphy @librarian_tiff

Hashtags and Chats

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

http://cybraryman.com/chats.html

#edchat - Tuesdays noon and 7 pm

Favorites

Use them to collect resources

Can automatically save to Diigo

Connections

For collaborative projects

Post requests to # chats

Other Uses

school or library Twitter accounts @resvt

Classroom Twitter accounts @sterlingmath

Inspiration!

Twitter bird icon from twitter.comUsed in accordance with Twitter’s

Guidelines for Use of the Twitter Trademark