This document provides information and tips for using Twitter effectively as an educator. It discusses how Twitter can be used for professional learning and connecting with other educators globally. It recommends personalizing your profile with a username, photo, and links. It also provides guidance on constructing tweets, who to follow, organizing followers into lists, and types of content to share like retweets, links, and questions. The overall message is that Twitter is a tool for sharing resources and ideas as well as participating in professional learning with other educators around the world.

1. Twitter

2. ICT Innovation Associate Principal
Quinns Beach Primary School
@bhavneetsingh12
http://about.me/bhavneetsingh12
http://on.fb.me/14P701A - 21 Century Skills Page
http://on.fb.me/1fQqPAY - TeachMeetWA Group
http://teachmeetwa.wikispaces.com/ - TMWA Wiki
Bhavneet Singh

3. TeachMeetWA
#TMWA

4. Why Twitter in 60 Seconds…
http://youtu.be/fW69tdKspfg

5. Why Twitter
• Authentic Audience
• Share good practice
• Share resources
• Receive information
• Participate in professional learning
• Learn from others
• Communicate
• Connect with other educators globally
• Connect with global thought leaders

6. So you’ve signed up!
What next?

7. Personal Branding
• Unique username
• Bio
• Photograph
• Eggs-Animals & Avatars
• Links to blogs, wikis, etc
• Password

8. Construct a Tweet
140
characters
Twitter Handle
@
HashTags
#
Links
http://www....
Retweets
RT
Modified
Tweet
MT
Add Pictures Add location

9. Twitter Stream
Hashtag
Twitter Handle
Twitter Handle
Link
Click to
Reply
Click to
Retweet
Click to add
to
favourites

10. Who to follow?
• Look at who others are following
• Read bios
• Read what they tweet about
• Look at the lists they are subscribed to
• Follow & Unfollow – Nobody is offended

11. Sort people you follow in to lists.

12. Management tools

13. Ready to Tweet
What do I Tweet about?
• Retweet
• Share links
• Share articles
• Share thoughts & quotes
• Share good practice
• Share new innovative
ideas
• Ask questions
• Answer others questions

14. Next…
• Join twitter chats
• Remember to add the hashtags
• Enjoy your new PLN