Download - Teaching and Learning with Twitter
![Page 1: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Teaching and Learning with
Steve WheelerUniversity of Plymouth, UK
@timbuckteeth
![Page 2: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Microblogs and Social Networks
• Allows users to send brief text updates or micromedia such as photos or audio clips and publish them
• Examples include: Plurk, Jaiku and Twitter• Facebook, Myspace, etc. have microblogging
features known as ‘status updates’.• What are you doing?• What’s happening?
![Page 3: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
![Page 5: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Is it really like this...?
![Page 6: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
140RT and DM #ulearn10@timbuckteeth
![Page 7: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Go Global
![Page 9: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Activity: Set up your Twitter account
• Go to www.twitter.com• Create an account• Choose a user name• Choose an avatar (picture to represent you)• Start to ‘follow’ other Twitter users
![Page 10: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Some facts about
• Twitter takes time...– to build up a network– to develop your own Twitter style– to appreciate its full scope
• It’s all about the conversation• Large number of associated tools (Mashups)• Twitter is growing fast...
![Page 11: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Some views on Twitter...
![Page 12: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Why Twitter?
Unique worldwide users over 100 million (June 2010)
![Page 13: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
What to Tweet about?
![Page 14: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
What to Tweet about?
• Conversation is the new currency• Twitter is an amplifier• Tweets can ‘go viral’ if enough RTs• DMs are private conversations• Learn a lot from other people’s tweets
![Page 15: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
More Twitter views...
![Page 16: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Let’s take a brief tour of Twitter...
![Page 17: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
navigation
![Page 18: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
navigation
user iconuser info
![Page 19: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
navigation
user iconuser info
activities
following
![Page 20: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
navigation
user iconuser info
activities
followingretweet
hashtag
hyperlink
![Page 21: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
update box
you choose a background
public timeline
![Page 22: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
mentions
DMs
trending
![Page 23: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Twitter relationships...
![Page 24: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
More on relationships...
![Page 25: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
Activity: Disadvantages?• Spend a few moments discussing with
someone in your group: What do you think the disadvantages and barriers would be to using Twitter in an educational context?
![Page 26: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
The downside?
• Time consuming• Slow to start• Noise to signal ratio• Distracting• Security issues?• Ban in some schools• Spam followers!
![Page 27: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
![Page 28: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
Twitter culture – RTs and the rest...
![Page 29: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
5 Twitter stages• Denial: I think Twitter sounds stupid. Why would
anyone care what other people are doing right now?• Presence: OK, I don’t get why people love it, but I
guess I could at least create an account• Dumping: I’m on Twitter and using it for links to my
blog posts and pointing people to useful websites• Conversing: I don’t always post useful stuff, but I use
Twitter to have useful 1-1 conversations• Microblogging: I’m using Twitter to publish useful
information that people read, and I have authentic 1-1 conversations.
(Adapted from Minxuan Lee)
![Page 30: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
Following and followers
![Page 31: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
Either
Carefully select the people you want to follow based on their interests/background
or
Go on follow recommendations from people you trust
(See TweepML.org)
or
Follow the same people your friends are following
![Page 32: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
Activity: Explore some additional tools
• Tweetdeck (dashboard)• Twitpic, Tweetphoto• Twitterpoll• Twitterfall• Mr Tweet• Twitlonger, Woofer• TweepML
![Page 33: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
Twitter is here to stay.....
![Page 34: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/34.jpg)
Some theory...
• Reflection• Amplification• Collaboration and sharing• Interaction and Conversation• Knowledge generation
![Page 35: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/35.jpg)
How can Twitter be used...?
![Page 36: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/36.jpg)
Teaching with Twitter
• Discuss – how could you use Twitter ...– in your own teaching?– To extend your own PLN?– To create a community of practice?
![Page 38: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/38.jpg)
Activity: Your turn
• What are your ideas for using Twitter in your own classroom?
![Page 39: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/39.jpg)
Twittering at Conferences
• Try twittering at this conference• Hashtag is: #ulearn10• Be concise• Report on what you think will be
interesting to other people• Reply to others• Send useful URLs
![Page 40: Teaching and Learning with Twitter](https://reader038.vdocument.in/reader038/viewer/2022103113/55499d1ab4c9050c738b4bdd/html5/thumbnails/40.jpg)
Tweet you later!