Catherine Werst

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• Catherine Werst
• October 28, 2009
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• When I hear Twitter, I think
• Yeah baby! Ive been tweeting since 06
• Oh cool! Another new technology!
• Is this new fad worth the time effort?
• Oh no! Another new technology
• Thats it, Im faxing in my intent to retire.

Image courtesy of despair.com
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Statistics courtesy of Wolframalpha.com
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• Free, real-time stream of 140-character posts
  from people you follow
• Platform for you to share ideas, resources in
  public or private
• Access to global, unfiltered stream of posts
• Synchronous asynchronous communication tool
• Functions not limited to members only
• Portable mobile, desktop

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Any user profile that is made public can be
viewed if you know the user name. Tweets from
that user are displayed in chronological order
with some hyperlinking.
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• Important, popular, provoking tweets are
  retweeted to wider audiences
• Ability to contact users outside your network
  with _at_name salutation
• Trending topics displayed on site
• Filtering, searches and tagging for tweets
  (hashtags)
• search.twitter.com is the search engine

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Twitter.com
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When you log in to Twitter, you can post your
Tweets directly into the interface, and review
the Tweets of the users you are following. Other
features are found on the right navigation.
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• Find someone interesting to follow
• Click the Follow button
• Their posts will now show up in your timeline!
  Easy!
• If someone is too noisy for your taste,
  simply click Unfollow

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• Web sites shared via URL shortening
• http//www.amazon.com/s/refnb_ss?urlsearch-alia
  s3Dapsfield-keywordsworldaccordingtotwitter
  x0y0
• http//tinyurl.com/yg97r8w
• Metrics Visualizations of word use
• Not only humans using Twitter
• Get ready for Googles Social Search launch with
  Twitter in a few weeks!

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Search is open and public, and you may search
across all posts by words or hashtags.
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• Professional (or Personal) Learning Network
• Follow professionals who inspire you share your
  interests
• Find people, organizations that give you
  resources and breaking news
• Ask your PLN for feedback
• Feed your PLN with resources, ideas

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• Jump into Twitter for YOU first
• Research the things that interest you
• Be aware of Twittiquette
• Think locally AND globally

The animating genius behind Twitter will live
on... that tactile sense of your community is
simply too much fun, too useful and it makes
the group more than the sum of its parts.
Clive Thompson, WIRED Magazine
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• Talking about life
• Talking about their instructors
• Sharing assignment information
• Selling buying textbooks
• Sharing work, cheating, encouraging
• Confessing, complaining, extolling
• on Twitter.
• Sometimes under their desks while youre
  talking.

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• Use a different account for teaching
• Show your tweets on your web site (RSS, widgets)
• Pre-course information
• Talk up your textbook
• Promote library counseling services
• Demonstrate netiquette

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• Virtual Office Hours
• Post assignments (use hashtags!)
• Announcements (cancellation, grades)
• Supplemental web resources
• Highlight career opportunities
• Ruminate, link to your blog
• Ask key concept questions
• All without having to share a phone number!

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• Research, post links to news, articles
• Tweet the lecture for extra credit
• Progressive stories (hashtags!)
• Chapter summaries
• Tweet a field trip
• Lecture Hall discussion tweets (project on a
  smart screen)

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• Link to exemplary student work
• Respond to poll or survey (twickers?)
• Post images/music/video via Twitter
• Interview a classmate
• Haiku or iambic pentameter

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Powerpoint plug-in for Office 2007 (Windows)
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• Read events in other languages
• Learn about other countries, cultures
• News about specific disciplines
• Follow political events or politicians
• Find opposing views
• Multicultural music videos (blip.fm)
• Learn from speak with experts
• Develop professional manners

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• Follow tweeted medical procedures
• Experience NASA events
• Get geological info (volcano, quakes)
• Find internships or jobs
• Discover local Tweetups
• Conference information in real time

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Wordle.net
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Twyric.com
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Timetweets.com
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• Follow a small group at first, include friends
  fellow hobbyists
• Build your Professional Learning Networkthrough
  and connect with peers
• Expose your students to new ideas and events
  around the world
• Play with access beyond twitter.com
• Have FUN

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• tr.im/twip
• Resource links
• Videos
• Handy applications
• PLUS annotated list of all classroom ideas!

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QA

• Please remember to share your
• Twitter user names in the chat
• window if you want new Tweeps!
• tr.im/twip
• Catherine Werst
• cwerst_at_cuesta.edu
• Twitter.com/cat8canary

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