An overview of Twitter. The presentation took place at a building-based professional development session. 10-28-13

1. Give an educator a PD Day and you
teach him for that day; show an
educator Twitter and you support
him for a lifetime.
tinyurl.com/wasdtwitter @rosscoops31

2. feedly

3. Demos
tweet
tweet to an audience
tweet out a website
retweet
direct message

5. Handle
Used to call out usernames in tweets.
Users are notified when their handles are mentioned.

6. Hashtag
Used to mark keywords or topics in a tweet.
Curates tweets by TV show, event, chat, etc.

9. Reply
Respond directly to the author(s) of the tweet.
This is a public message.*

10. Repost the tweet in your feed for your followers.
Quoting the tweet allows for editing before reposting.
Retweet

11. Add the tweet to your list of favorites.
(Save for later)
Favorite

13. Resources
1-page Twitter guide
setting up your profile
educators to follow
weekly chats
Tweetbot

14. Challenges
1. sign up for Twitter
2. start your profile
3. send out a tweet (to an audience)
4. tweet out a website (to an audience)
5. follow 5 others
6. reply to a tweet
7. retweet a tweet
8. favorite a tweet

15. How can Twitter help
YOUR students?
tinyurl.com/wasdtwitter @rosscoops31