webinar for web 2.0 tools IT5660 - March, 22nd

team twitterKim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

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duwoods Before handing off to Ken, are there any questions about what we’ll be doing today?

Reading an interesting

book?

How is your favorite

team doing? Seen this week’s big movie?

How is President Obama doing?

What do you think of William

Horton?

Are you nervous about YOUR

presentation?

Have you figured out Adobe

Connect yet?Planning a

Spring Break?

What are your iPod’s

top five played songs?

Oh, THAT Robin

Williams!

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KenDThomas Hey, our IT5660 class just “tweeted” – how cool is that? Thanks for letting us know what’s going on! Looks like you’re up, Chris.

TwitteTwitterr

TwitteTwitterr

Entertainment

Entertainment

Social LifeSocial Life

WorkWork

PoliticsPoliticsResearchResearch

EducationEducation

ExpressionExpression

Promotion

Promotion

Cartoonist Robert Crumb

predicted Twitter in the 1960’s.

Cartoon source: Christopher Herot

(http://www.blogschmog.net/2007/11/17/a-brief-history-of-microblogging/)

Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationAchieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

As early as 1871, Western Union used a similar ‘one-to-many’

approach over the telegraph wires enabling remote:

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Source: The Victorian Internet, Tom Standage, Berkley Books, 1998.. | -.. --- | ..--.. |

Morse Code for ‘I do!’

Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationAchieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

Did you hear Did you hear about…about…

What about that What about that job?job?

How about How about dinner?dinner?

Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationAchieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

Photos : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

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(from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter)

chrismgille Before handing off to Kim, are there any questions about microblogging or the history of Twitter?

Twitter is an easy to use real-time ‘one-to-many’ messaging system. However may not be completely obvious how to join the ‘flock’, rest assured Team Twitter is here to help. We will not cover all of the features of Twitter—but we can help get you started.

Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationAchieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationAchieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

It’s as easy as….

warning! You may now be ‘followed’!

- - …

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Then Click on ‘Get Started’

To create an account on twitter, go to twitter.com,

Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationAchieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

To create an account, you must ‘join the conversation’…

Then Click on ‘Create

my account’

Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationAchieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

Use one of twitters many ‘people’ finding applications:

Click on ‘Find

People’

Search for your family, friends or

people with similar

interests

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Choose who to follow & your will receive their ‘tweets’…

If you find someone

interesting Click on ‘Follow’

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What are you doing now?—in 140 characters or less!

Now, choose when to tweet &

when/how you will choose to listen to

the tweets of others!duwoods Any questions about setting up a Twitter

account or getting started? When we’re ready to continue, Ken will show us some Twitter examples.

Twirl

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Spaz

TweetDeck

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TwitterBerry

Tiny Twitter

Twitteriffic

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Twittervision

Twitter Search

TweetBeep

KenDThomas I’m addicted to Twittervision – I especially love seeing tweets in foreign languages! Any questions before passing it to Kim?

What ways can we use Twitter for education?

1. Collaboration

2. Virtual Classroom

3. Research

4. Information Gathering

5. Project Management

Does anyone have any questions on Unit 2?

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What ways can we use Twitter for education?

Source: Mediacultures.net

Uses twitter to respond to students

questions in real time!

Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationAchieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

What ways can we use Twitter for education?

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Tools such as twitterfeed enable connectivity to RSS feeds, existing classroom modules or other mircoblogging technology.

Instructor feeds their tweets to twitterfeed. Twitterfeeds pushes the info to the

class via courseware or the students blog monitoring site of choice.

What ways can we use Twitter for education?

Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationAchieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

Research

What ways can we use Twitter for education?

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Virtual Classroom: An Example by David Perry

What ways can we use Twitter for education?

Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationAchieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

What ways can we use Twitter for education?

Project Management

Educators can monitor the learning process, post announcements, Task prompts or reminders, follow-ups. How is your group

project going?

duwoods Any questions about how people are using Twitter to support learning? Ken – let’s do some brainstorming to see how WE can use it!

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KenDThomas Wow – some GREAT ideas! Any questions? Next, Chris is going to talk about some job aids to help you set up and use Twitter…

chrismgille Before handing off to Kim for our closing, are there any questions about the job aids?

Look for our job aid , in your email…

Use the job aid to set-up your twitter account…

Follow the link we send you via twitter to take our formative survey!

chrismgille Thanks for joining us – if you have any questions, please just “tweet!”

KenDThomas I hope you found some interesting uses for Twitter it in your learning environment! Let us know if you come up with a good “treatment!”

duwoods Thanks for attending our presentation! Good luck to all of you on yours!