Sally Wilson January 25, 2012

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

 Founded 2006  twttr  First day 224 tweets History

What is Twitter?

Twitter Usage Stats

Content of Tweets

Getting online with Twitter

Get an Account

Find people to follow

Twitter Terminology  Tweet – 140 characters  Retweeting

Hashtags #TTC #Jan25 #WEF #Ryerson #RUweb20

 By keywords  By hashtags #ryerson, #RUweb20, #ttc, #WEF, #occupyWEF  Twitter search (advanced options)

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

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

Twitter in the Classroom

Class Discussion

Classroom Community Building Community

Sense of the World  Twitter Public Timeline   Trending topics

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

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

Follow a @hrheingold

Twitter Personnas John Boyer, Virginia Tech

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

Tweeting as Characters  Twitter in @hell_o_dante

Recreating Historical Events

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

Images  Upload images  Link from Twitter   yfrog.com/ yfrog.com/

URL Shorteners  bitly.com  goo.gl

Twitter Dashboards    twitterfall.com twitterfall.com

Twitter Visualization Tools  

Archiving  Hootsuite Archives  The Archivist

Twitter Adoption Matrix

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

Resources - Examples  50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College Classroom to-use-twitter-in-the-college-classroom/ to-use-twitter-in-the-college-classroom/  Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities 11/11/Published-Twitter_Guide_Sept_2011.pdf 11/11/Published-Twitter_Guide_Sept_2011.pdf  One Hundred Ways to Teach with Twitter teach-with-twitter/ teach-with-twitter/  Delicious

Resources - Pedagogy  The effect of Twitter on college student engagement and grades  Practical Advice for Teaching with Twitter twitter/ twitter/26416  A Framework for teaching with Twitter twitter/ twitter/26223

Twitter in the Classroom at Ryerson