Twitter

Establishing a Learning Network Using Twitter by Liz B. Davis and Danja Mahoney

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Twitter is a good way to find out what people are talking about at any point in time a way to connect with people by interests or things you want to learn about select how many and who you are listening to ultimate power = combined intelligence get just in time problem solving from peers large group is good but not too large

Advice for teachers new to Twitter:

1. Go to settings and fill out bio 2. Tweet a few things 3. Don't protect your updates. 4. Use your real name and picture

@....... message - open to the public

Direct message - not open to the public

rt = retweet - forward message - not stimulating new conversation

Big Tweet, moourl, bit.ly = use to shorten long URL

Twitter Managers - provides additional display options Twhirl Twitterrific TweetDeck - show multiple columns simultaneously