Twitter 101Health and Physical Education - Primary Schools

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3rd NovemberAnthony Coe - @anthonycoe3116

Why Tweet? Connect Globally Constant Professional Learning A very strong cohort of Primary HPE Teachers Resources Grow your Professional Learning Network Share your practice, resources, ideas, thoughts Contribute Collaborate Create a presence 2.8 Million Users in 2014

Setup Your account

www.twitter.com Simple Identifier - @FirstnameSurname Keep it Unique and make it easy to find you Password Profile Information

Hatching the egg

Upload a Profile Picture Add a short bio about yourself See examples of other users

How to follow

Keep an even ratio of followers to people who follow you Read the users Tweets to make a judgement Gather People to follow from popular #s Start small, watch and wait Start with #Physed Click on Follow – It is that simple

What to follow

People v Hashtags There are some fantastic innovative people to follow. Following the # allows you to keep your Twitter feed tidy Use Tweetdeck (all versions link together) Web based - https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ Laptop Version - http://tweetdeck.en.softonic.com/download Ipad Version - Hootsuite

Who to follow

@JoeyFeith@MrHairPhysed@andyvasily@achpertas@PENathan@rmbyrne@edutopia

https://thepegeek.com/2013/05/10-pe-teachers-to-follow-on-twitter-in-2013/ http://physedagogy.com/physedsummit/physedsummit3program/

Your first Tweet 140 Characters If you want someone to see your tweet

use @username and a message in your tweet Can add multiple people Use a # if you want to contribute Start your own # (great for PL and Class collaboration)

Sharing a web page https://goo.gl/ https://bitly.com/ http://tinyurl.com/

Twitter Direct Messages

Great way to connect privately without Tweeting Need to follow people before messaging them

Favourite, Retweet, Quote Retweet

Build your online currency A good way to keep a record of information etc Reference other people who you want to access the informaiton

Twitter Challenges

1. Make your first Tweet2. Favourite a Tweet3. Follow someone from #PhysEd4. Tweet a Web page5. Direct Tweet someone you don’t know6. Tweet a Picture7. Retweet a resource or another tweet8. Get followed by someone you don’t know