1. Tuning Teacher Voice Via
Twitter
Mindi Rench, Literacy Coach, Northbrook School
District 28, Northbrook, IL
@mindi_r
http://slideshare.com/mindi_r
2. What is Twitter and Why
Do I Need to Be On It?
• Twitter is a microblogging platform that
allows users 140 characters to get their
messages across.
• The network provides users with a wide-
ranging audience for messages.
• It’s one of the fastest growing social
networking sites out there.
3. Twitter Facts
• Twitter has the strongest growth of any social
network, surpassing Pinterest, Reddit, nad LinkedIn
• It’s used by 2 times as many women as men.
• Its largest demographic are people ages 25-55
• 60% of all users have some college education
• Use of Twitter has doubled in the last 12 months.
4.
5. How do I start?
• Go to http://twitter.com and register for an
account.
• Find people to follow. Then look at who
they follow.
6. For example...
When I first joined Twitter, I followed Teri Lesesne, by
looking at who SHE follows, I was able to get 976
ideas for other people and organizations to follow.
By following Donalyn Miller, I got 2,030 ideas for
people to follow.
Of course, I don’t follow ALL of those people; instead,
I explored the profiles of those who seemed
intriguing and branched out from there.
7. Once you start to follow,
people will follow you....
especially once you change your avatar from the stock-
issued egg photo and begin tweeting yourself.
As you tweet, people re-tweet you, then more people will
begin to follow you.
For example, if Donalyn re-tweets one of my tweets, 10,
090 people will see what I have to say!
8. Participate in Chats!
• Many different groups host weekly or monthly chats:
• #educhat
• #educoach
• #sschat
• #engchat
• #ptchat
9. HASHTAG
The hashtag is used to search for threaded chats. People
participating in chats add the hashtag so that others can
find their tweets.
10. Twitter Clients
• Using a Twitter client can make following
and participating in chats easier.
• Tweetchat
• Tweetdeck
