Presentation for educators at Surrey Teachers Association 2013 in Surrey BC
This is a variation of my other presentation about Twitter Best Professional Development in 140 characters
22. It is no longer
enough to do
powerful work if no
one sees it.
-
Chris Lehmann
- Chris Lehmann
23. Twitter Lingo
@
DM
#
RT
MT
a reference to a user, seen by all followers
a direct message to a user, only seen by the
user
mark a word as a hashtag, the community
determines the popularity
credit a tweet to another user
a retweet, but paraphrased or modified
Welcome...today we are going to talk about social media and that way in which you can connect and exchange interesting ideas with educators from all over the world. Learning is often described as a journey, a process. There are many stops to check out along the way. Credit A. Couros
Your students are probably already learning or ready to learn in this digital space. Do you know where they are talking about? Do you know how they are engaging here? Let’s discuss...
A good resource to look at this new book. It describes how becoming connected as professional learner is a journey. Available in print and in Kindle form.
Who has the time to look all this up? I can’t catch up! There is too much to sort through?
Demo searching some hashtags: #edchat, #edapp, #sd36learn
Times where groups of twitter users get together and have a tweet up. #edchat has one every tuesday about 4:00pm (pacific)
Flipboard (free) is a app available for iOS and Android that allows formats your feed into a personalized magazine. It allows you to explore and read blogs in a way that is useful and easy.