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Sally Wilson swilson@ryerson.ca January 25, 2012
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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
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Founded 2006 twttr First day 224 tweets History
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What is Twitter?
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Twitter Usage Stats
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Content of Tweets
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Getting online with Twitter http://twitter.com
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Get an Account
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@DMPRyerson @RyersonLTO @ryersonlibrary @RyersonDMZ @dhannalto @swilson416 @restiandriati @blepharisma Find people to follow
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Twitter Terminology Tweet – 140 characters Retweeting
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Hashtags #TTC #Jan25 #WEF #Ryerson #RUweb20
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By keywords By hashtags #ryerson, #RUweb20, #ttc, #WEF, #occupyWEF Twitter search (advanced options) http://twitter.com/search http://twitter.com/search
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Twitter outside the classroom Breaking news Customer Service Job Search
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More Twitter Uses Quick Answers Track Mail Shipments – UPS, FedEx Live Twittering Branding
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Twitter in the Classroom
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Class Discussion
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Classroom Community Building Community
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Sense of the World Twitter Public Timeline https://twitter.com/public_timeline https://twitter.com/public_timeline Trending topics
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Track A Conference Be in two places at once Can follow what delegates are saying about the conference
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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
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Follow a Professional/Company @Starbucks, @StarbucksJobs @kobo @NewMediaJim, @hrheingold
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Twitter Personnas John Boyer, Virginia Tech http://www.plaidavenger.com/
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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
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Tweeting as Characters Twitter in Hell Project @dante1300, @danteschmante, @hell_o_dante
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Recreating Historical Events
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Tools to Use with Twitter Image uploaders url shorteners Poll creators Twitter Dashboards Geospatial visualization apps
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Images Upload images Link from Twitter www.twitpic.com www.twitpic.com yfrog.com/ yfrog.com/
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URL Shorteners bitly.com goo.gl
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Twitter Dashboards www.tweetdeck.com www.tweetdeck.com www.hootsuite.com www.hootsuite.com twitterfall.com twitterfall.com
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Twitter Visualization Tools http://twittermap.appspot.com/ http://twittermap.appspot.com/ http://trendsmap.com http://trendsmap.com
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Archiving Hootsuite Archives http://hootsuite.comhttp://hootsuite.com The Archivist http://archivist.visitmix.com/http://archivist.visitmix.com/
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Twitter Adoption Matrix
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Caveats/Best Practices Not all students familiar with Twitter Digital divide Provide alternatives Privacy issues Make expectations clear
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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
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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
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Twitter in the Classroom at Ryerson @lbeckste
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