1. Why Twitter?
A Presentation for Teacher Librarians
By Beth Redford @bethredford
Dynamic Landscapes Conference
May 11, 2012

2. Jennifer Malphy
@jmalphy
I'm the Library Media
Specialist and District
Technology Coordinator for
Kickapoo Area Schools in
Viola, WI. I'm a wife and
mother to two little boys.

3. Planning for Summer Checkouts pic.twitter.com
**reconstructed Tweet – couldn’t find the original! – BR
photo courtesy of Jennifer Malphy

8. Map image by user:Theshibboleth on Wikipedia.com, retrieved 5/7/2012
Used under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license

9. Twitter is:
A microblogging service
The world’s biggest, most up to date
annotated bibliography!

11. Vocabulary
Twitter is the service
Tweet is a noun…and a verb
Username ex. @bethredford

12. Signing Up
Twitter.com
Username – helpful if it relates to your
real name, also if it’s short
Put in a (real) picture and description
when you get a chance

13. Who to follow?
@joycevalenza @sducharme
@jenniferlagarde @MrSchuReads
@buffyjhamilton @shannonmmiller
@cybraryman1 @AuntyTech
@PWKidsBookshelf @imcguy
@classicsixbooks @SLJournal
@jmalphy @librarian_tiff

14. Hashtags and Chats
# makes it searchable
#tlchat, #VSLA – all day
#edchat - Tuesdays noon and 7 pm
http://cybraryman.com/chats.html

15. Favorites
Use them to collect resources
Can automatically save to Diigo

16. Connections
For collaborative projects
Post requests to # chats

17. Other Uses
school or library Twitter accounts
@resvt
Classroom Twitter accounts
@sterlingmath

19. Inspiration!
Twitter bird icon from twitter.com
Used in accordance with Twitter’s
Guidelines for Use of the Twitter Trademark