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1. Kurtis Hewson
University of Lethbridge
@hewsonk27
Twitter 101 for
Educators

2. Extending Your Learning
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3. Tweeters in the Room

4. Essential Questions
• Why?
• How do I start an account?
• What are some basic terms/features to
know
• What are some ways I can get started
Tweeting?
• What are hashtags?
• What are chats?
• What are Twitter Clients?
• Considerations

5. Why?

6. Why?

7. Why?
Sharing from Tweeters in the room…

8. Why?
• Connect and network
• Share and discover resources
• Gateway to meaningful professional
sharing and collaboration
• Stay up to date
• Engage with school community

9. Starting an Account
• Go to http://twitter.com
• Consider:
• Choose your name wisely – consider your “brand” for
a uniform on-line presence
• Complete your profile, including a blog, class or
school website address
• Include profile details that will be informative to other
professionals and capture you as a professional
• Begin following others

10. Some basics
RT – Retweet (passing along
someone else’s tweet) – shares with
an increasing circle of followers
@ – Reply (references the initial author
or directly sends the tweet to another
user (but seen by all followers)
# – Hashtag (posts the
tweet on a list that many
more people may follow) –
distributes the tweet to a
larger, often particular
audience
Shortened URL – used to shorten long
url’s (Twitter Clients do this automatically,
or go to https://bitly.com)
Direct Message – same as an email
to a Twitter follower – only seen by
the message recipient

11. What Should I Tweet?
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Retweet others (great way to start)
Links/resources that you find valuable
Content you’ve created
Comments on other posts/resources
Interesting quotes
During presentations
Questions you have
Insights you have
Thanks to those that follow

12. Hashtags
• Great way to follow a topic or get a
tweet out to a wider audience
• Will begin to observe frequently
used or useful hashtags
– #edteach, #abed, #edchat
• Great for creating a
conversation/backchannel
• Used for chats

13. http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/08/10-reasons-why-teachers-use-twitter-as.html

14. Chats
• Utilize hashtags
• Formal chats scheduled on
pre-determined topics (list on
the blog)
• Can view past chats online
• Can “participate” or just
observe
• Establish your own chats

15. Twitter Clients
• Make it
easy to
utilize
Twitter on
your
desktop
or mobile
device
• View
multiple
social
media
platforms
Tweetdeck
Hootsuite

16. Consider
Classroom
Account

17. Consider
Learning
Activities
and
Materials

18. Consider
Share Student
Learning

19. Consider
Engage in
Professional
Sharing and
Dialogue

20. Consider
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21. Consider
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22. Consolidation

23. Kurtis Hewson
University of Lethbridge
Email – hewskp@uleth.ca
Twitter - @hewsonk27
http://kurtishewson.wordpress.com