Presenter: Lyn Hilt, ELANCO Audience: K-6 Description: Did you know that there are thousands of educators worldwide who interact daily on Twitter? These educators share resources, support one another, and connect their classrooms globally! By using Twitter to help build your personal learning network, you can connect to other passionate educators and students willing to share their ideas and expertise with the world. Learn how to get started and be introduced to the variety of ways you and your students can engage with this dynamic community of learners!
Remember:
Your Twitter profile should accurately represent you as an educator. Include a recent photo (or school logo), grade level(s)/content areas taught, location, interests, etc. You want to encourage other educators to follow you and start to build collegial relationships! Anatomy of a tweet: To get started, follow around 25 educators who contribute regularly to bring information into your stream. Here’s a great list to reference to find other educators to follow.
Room: 106A
Presenter:Lyn Hilt, ELANCO
Audience: K-6
Description:
Did you know that there are thousands of educators worldwide who interact daily on Twitter? These educators share resources, support one another, and connect their classrooms globally! By using Twitter to help build your personal learning network, you can connect to other passionate educators and students willing to share their ideas and expertise with the world. Learn how to get started and be introduced to the variety of ways you and your students can engage with this dynamic community of learners!
What is Twitter? View Twitter in Plain English for a quick introduction.
Brand new to Twitter? Here's a tutorial for newbies:
Twitter Intro from Lyn Hilt on Vimeo.
Remember:
Your Twitter profile should accurately represent you as an educator. Include a recent photo (or school logo), grade level(s)/content areas taught, location, interests, etc. You want to encourage other educators to follow you and start to build collegial relationships!
Anatomy of a tweet:
To get started, follow around 25 educators who contribute regularly to bring information into your stream.
Here’s a great list to reference to find other educators to follow.
Contribute! RT tweets of interest and share ideas and links with others.
Use hashtags to increase the audience of your tweets and to engage educators in conversations.
Here are additional Twitter resources for you:Helping Educators Get Started with Twitter
The Twitteraholic’s Ultimate Guide to tweets, hashtags, and all things TwitterThe Chat Diary – find Twitter chat times/schedules**Master list of educational chats on Twitter!**
A simple guide on the use of hashtags for teachersTwitter for teachers- infographic for beginners
Here's a great post on the Twitter "modes"- the different types of conversations you may see emerge among those in your network
Building a professional learning network on Twitter from Tom Whitby
Educators, do you tweet? from Eric Sheninger
An educator's guide to Twitter from Steven Andersen
100 ways to use Twitter in educationThe difference between @replies and mentionsTwitter language A-Z
Twitter 101: Build your personal learning network
Twitter cheat sheet
Building a professional learning network on Twitter
5 Twitter Resources for School AdministratorsTwitter for Teachers (Kathy Schrock's collection of resources)
Twitter Handbook for Teachers
Twitter for Singletons
Join the Flock!
The Power of Twitter
Twitter for Education wiki
Twitter for TeachersWhy teachers should try Twitter
Find people to follow! Twitter for Teachers!
Ultimate Twitter Guidebook for Teachers
Educators, Do You Tweet?
Managing Your Learning on TwitterMore about Connected Learning
Additional Twitter resource list
Utilizing Twitter chats for professional development via Tom Murray
Effort In, Reward Out (developing a PLN)
23 Resources about Personal Learning Networks from Shelly Terrell
The 5 Cs to developing your personal learning network from Lisa Nielsen
How to use Twitter to grow your PLN from Edutopia
What the heck is a PLN? from Michael Graffin