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1 Sally Wilson swilson@ryerson.ca January 25, 2012

2 Overview  Some history  Terminology and Twitter basics  How Twitter is being used  Twitter in Higher Education  Examples  Best Practices  Twitter in the Classroom at Ryerson

3  Founded 2006  twttr  First day 224 tweets History

4 What is Twitter?

5 Twitter Usage Stats

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8 Content of Tweets

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10 Getting online with Twitter http://twitter.com

11 Get an Account

12 @DMPRyerson @RyersonLTO @ryersonlibrary @RyersonDMZ @dhannalto @swilson416 @restiandriati @blepharisma Find people to follow

13 Twitter Terminology  Tweet – 140 characters  Retweeting

14 Hashtags #TTC #Jan25 #WEF #Ryerson #RUweb20

15  By keywords  By hashtags #ryerson, #RUweb20, #ttc, #WEF, #occupyWEF  Twitter search (advanced options) http://twitter.com/search http://twitter.com/search

16 Twitter outside the classroom  Breaking news  Customer Service  Job Search

17 More Twitter Uses  Quick Answers  Track Mail Shipments – UPS, FedEx  Live Twittering  Branding

18 Twitter in the Classroom

19 Class Discussion

20 Classroom Community Building Community

21 Sense of the World  Twitter Public Timeline  https://twitter.com/public_timeline https://twitter.com/public_timeline  Trending topics

22 Track A Conference  Be in two places at once  Can follow what delegates are saying about the conference

23 Conferences to Track  Digital Book World #dbw12  Florida Educational Technology Conference #EVflori4388  Learning Technologies 2011 #LT12uk  New Media Training Institute #NMTI  Int’l Conference on Data Mining #SIAMSDM12  Association of America Colleges & Universities #aacu12  Wine Bloggers’ Conference #BCWINECHAT

24 Follow a Professional/Company  @Starbucks, @StarbucksJobs  @kobo  @NewMediaJim, @hrheingold

25 Twitter Personnas John Boyer, Virginia Tech http://www.plaidavenger.com/

26 Find Some Plaid Personnas  Use Twitter to search for Plaid followed by the name of a world leader  Tweet your findings Eg. Found world leader @Plaid_xxxxx #RUweb20

27 Tweeting as Characters  Twitter in Hell Project @dante1300, @danteschmante, @hell_o_dante

28 Recreating Historical Events

29 Tools to Use with Twitter  Image uploaders  url shorteners  Poll creators  Twitter Dashboards  Geospatial visualization apps

30 Images  Upload images  Link from Twitter  www.twitpic.com www.twitpic.com  yfrog.com/ yfrog.com/

31 URL Shorteners  bitly.com  goo.gl

32 Twitter Dashboards  www.tweetdeck.com www.tweetdeck.com  www.hootsuite.com www.hootsuite.com  twitterfall.com twitterfall.com

33 Twitter Visualization Tools  http://twittermap.appspot.com/ http://twittermap.appspot.com/  http://trendsmap.com http://trendsmap.com

34 Archiving  Hootsuite Archives http://hootsuite.comhttp://hootsuite.com  The Archivist http://archivist.visitmix.com/http://archivist.visitmix.com/

35 Twitter Adoption Matrix

36 Caveats/Best Practices  Not all students familiar with Twitter  Digital divide  Provide alternatives  Privacy issues  Make expectations clear

37 Resources - Examples  50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College Classroom http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2009/06/08/50-ways- to-use-twitter-in-the-college-classroom/ http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2009/06/08/50-ways- to-use-twitter-in-the-college-classroom/  Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/files/20 11/11/Published-Twitter_Guide_Sept_2011.pdf http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/files/20 11/11/Published-Twitter_Guide_Sept_2011.pdf  One Hundred Ways to Teach with Twitter http://www.emergingedtech.com/2010/02/100-ways-to- teach-with-twitter/ http://www.emergingedtech.com/2010/02/100-ways-to- teach-with-twitter/  Delicious http://www.delicious.com/swilson416/twitter http://www.delicious.com/swilson416/twitter

38 Resources - Pedagogy  The effect of Twitter on college student engagement and grades http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2729.2010.00387.x/pdf http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2729.2010.00387.x/pdf  Practical Advice for Teaching with Twitter http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/practical-advice-for-teaching-with- twitter/26416 http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/practical-advice-for-teaching-with- twitter/26416  A Framework for teaching with Twitter http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/a-framework-for-teaching-with- twitter/26223 http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/a-framework-for-teaching-with- twitter/26223

39 Twitter in the Classroom at Ryerson  @lbeckste


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