Faculty Showcase-Twitter workshop

1. Twitter and Teachers:Expanding the Learning Space Enza Antenos-Conforti Montclair State University, NJ Follow me: @iVenus (my PLN) @profeac& @profenza (teaching handles) Image credit: http://www.distance-education.org/Articles/Top-75-College-Education-Tweets-133.html

2. What Is It? http://www.americandialect.org/index.php/amerdial/2009_word_of_the_year_is_tweet_word_of_the_decade_is_google/

3. Many have criticised tweets to be “banalities” and “mindless”

4. Why and What Do We Tweet? Tweets are a source of information; people in certain places, at certain events, sharing at a global level Tweets his way out of an Egyptian jail (U of California-Berkley student, James Buck—April 2008) Earthquake in China (May 2008) Landing on the Hudson (US Airways Flight—Jan 2009) Earthquake in Italy (April 2009) Mumbai Terror Attacks (Nov 2009)

5. Twitter and Haiti

7. Where Do We Start? Joining the conversation is easy… Select a username / create a password / provide an email address

8. My Twitter Page The last thing you micro-blogged: a.k.a. a tweet Where you update/ tweet The Timeline with your following Popular topics

9. Deciding Who to Follow By common interest? By geographical location? By influential status? http://www.twibes.com/group/WorldLanguages

10. Let’s tweet Tweets are self-perpetuating generative authentic Tweeps / Twitterers (users) interpret input produce output engage in conversations

11. Twitter term: Mention (aka Reply) The @Replies feature was introduced because we noticed lots of folks putting the @ symbol in front of Twitter usernames as a way of addressing one another. For example: @biz what are you drinking in your avatar? (It's a soy latte.) @username also now in the middle of tweets as a way to simply reference another account

12. Twitter term: Retweet Sharing and crediting sources

13. Twitter Search: Retweet

14. Twitter term: Hashtag Create groupings by adding context and metadata

15. Tweeting to… Create a personal learning network—i.e., follow people who share your interests by reading their tweets about blog posts news & events videos & music other followers (who then you begin to follow) The positive spiral of Twitter as a social network

16. The Teacher’s PLN A Personal Learning Network is essential to implementing Web 2.0 technologies to teaching Conversation and interactivity are organic with members of the PLN

17. Teaching with Twitter Create a Twitter handle for academic use only Use class time to have students create their handle, follow classmates and tweet for the first time Prompt them initially to have them feel comfortable with Tweeting Develop your best practices for course objectives

18. Teaching & Learning with Twitter Class chatter Classroom community Get a sense of the World Track a Word Track a Conference Instant Feedback Follow a Professional Follow a Famous Person Grammar Rule Based Writing Maximizing the Teaching Moment Public Note Pad Writing Assignment Source: AcademHack www.outsidethetext.com/home/2008/twitter-for-academia/

20. Get instant feedback on topics using it as poll device using hashtags

22. Hands-On Tweeting Here’s what to do: Tweet something to share two (2) things about yourself (personal, professional, etc.) Include the hashtag below (#BCTech) Click on the hashtag in your tweet and read what others have tweeted Reply to the tweet of two (2) other twitterers