teaching and learning with social media: twitter
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Learn more about Twitter and its use in Education. This presentation dives into the basics, examples, and cool tools to help you be successful on Twitter. For more tips, tricks, and idea visit http://professorjosh.com Twitter: @ProfessorJosh Facebook: http://facebook.com/professorjosh YouTube: http://youtube.com/theprofessorjoshTRANSCRIPT
Teaching and Learning with
Josh Murdock
@professorjosh
Valencia College
#SMEDU
Social Media Explained via Cupcakes http://professorjosh.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/social-media-explained-with-cupcakes/
Twouble with Twitter
http://youtu.be/PN2HAroA12w
How Do I Connect with students
How Do I Communicate with people
How do I utilize new tools
Why is digital literacy important
“The qualities that make Twitter seem insane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful.”
- Jonathan Zittrain –Harvard Law Professor & Internet Expert
Twitter is a real-time information network that connects you to the latest stories, ideas, opinions and news at 140 characters at a time. http://twitter.com/professorjosh
Tweet Me! @PROFESSORJOSH
#SMEDU
Twitter.com
Full Name, Email, Password.
Username (ex. @professorjosh)
Confirmation Email
Please note: You can
change your username in your account
settings at any time, as long as the new
username is not already in use.
Usernames must be fewer than 15
characters in length and cannot
contain "admin" or "Twitter", in order
to avoid brand confusion.
Twitter Accounts
http://twitter.com/professorjosh
Glossary of twitter terms
• Tweet. A message sent via Twitter (140 characters).• Follow To follow someone on Twitter is to subscribe to their tweets. • Reply @ A Tweet posted in reply to another user's message, usually posted by clicking the "reply" button next to their Tweet in your timeline. Always begins with @username.• Retweet (RT). A repeated tweet. It sometimes used in a reply to allow everyone to see the original tweet. • DM. A Direct Message sent via Twitter only the recipient can see.• Follow To follow someone on Twitter is to subscribe to their tweets. https://support.twitter.com/entries/166337-the-twitter-glossary#
Twitter hashtags#The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet. It was created organically by Twitter users as a way to
categorize messages.
Example:#edtech #highered#smedu #elearning
Twitter Search
You can search anything on Twitter including an advance search with location, people, and various words.
Twitter tips
• “@” reply at the beginning will only show up to those replied to or following both you and the person replied to. Add a period or word in front to show to everyone. (VIDEO)• Avatar should be a photo of you• Fill out your bio and be witty• Schedule OK but don’t automate everything• Engage, Engage, Engage• Don’t worry about follower count, it’s about the conversation. • Save certain frequently used searches
Twitter Chat
Interactive conversation at a specific time on Twitter, usually covering a specific topic using a hashtag.
#lrnchat#edchat#fitblog
Twitter Tools
• Hootsuite• Buffer• IFTTT
Twitter Apps• Twitter• Hootsuite• TweetDeck
Twitter Apps
• Flipboard• Zite
Twitter Tools
• Tweetdoc• TweetReport
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Twitter Tools
• Revist• Mentionmap
p• PowerPoint
PowerPoint Twitter Feedback Slide #SMEDUUse Presentation Mode to view, Click this header to give mouse control back to PowerPoint, change slide, etc. Check the
“alternate format” to see more tweets!
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Joel Berman – Twitter and YouTube Class Example: I have been using Twitter to collect data on exercises that were confusing in class or those that students simply want another example to refer to. I then record examples of the top questions/concerns and upload them to YouTube. One of the related links (in response to the requests for long division) is: http://youtu.be/Y3yXVnmKuAE
Amanda Kern: During the fall 2011 and spring 2012 semesters web design faculty teaching the GRA 2141C web page design course worked toward creating more awareness of social media throughout the semester. The hopes were to help students increase their awareness and see the professional benefits of social media. The following activities were implemented each semester to help increase awareness of social media’s professional benefits.
One of the examples is by Brian Croxall (@briancroxall ) who is using Twitter in his ENG 456 Reading Technology course to engage his student with social media in an age of new media. This is a month long Twitter-related assignment after he has already spent time with students discussing media systems. After gaining foundation requirements, the students are to follow the class account “Croxall” and other members of the class, posting at least once a day for a month and using the course hashtag #eng465. Croxall focused on having students play with Twitter and see if it changes the culture or society of the class in any appreciable way.The final assignment is for students to write up an evaluation of the assignment and what Twitter teaches about community and media. This assignment would be a low-stake, low-entry form of social media to implement into a course for the first time.
EDU Examples
Research
Research – Easier to find now than 2 years ago.
http://delicious.com/professorjosh/social-media-edu
Tenure Research by Amanda Kern (Valencia College)
Looked at faculty, student, and industry perspectives
51% faculty claimed to use social media in some way
to engage students.
87% admitted to learning more
about a candidate online
before hiring them.
Contact
Josh Murdock
Twitter: @professorjosh
Facebook:facebook.com/professorjosh
Email: [email protected]
Twitter www.twitter.com • Mashable’s The Twitter Guide Book http://mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/ • What’s a Twitter Chat?
http://professorjosh.wordpress.com/2011/04/18/whats-a-twitter-chat/ • How to Run a Successful Twitter Chat
http://mashable.com/2009/12/08/twitter-chat/ • Twitter Dictionary: A Guide to Understanding Twitter Lingo http://
www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/Twitter_Dictionary_Guide.asp • 100 Ways to Use Twitter in Education, By Degree of Diffculty
http://edudemic.com/2012/04/100-ways-to-use-twitter-in-education-by-degree-of-difficulty/
• Top 100 Twitter Tools 2012 http://dailytekk.com/2012/03/19/the-top-100-twitter-tools-of-2012-categorized/
• Learning Technology Services Valencia Twitter: http://twitter.com/LTSVALENCIA • Professor Josh Twitter http://twitter.com/professorjosh