Using Twitter to develop

1. Using Twitter to
Build a PLN
MaineEd Conference
October 14, 2011
Patrick Larkin
Burlington High School Principal (Burlington, MA)
PatrickMLarkin.com
@bhsprincipal
larkin@bpsk12.org
Google Voice # - (559) 245-2757

2. My soap box
statement

3. Burlington High School
Mission Statement

4. Why do we need to embrace Social Media?
“To promote student learning through the use of mobile learning
devices and social media in instruction that further prepares
students to be active, constructive participants in the highly
connected world in which they already live and will soon work.."
(From NASSP Position Statement on Using Mobile and Social Technologies
in school) 2011

5. On to Twitter

6. So I Joined Twitter in January of 2009
and saw this...

7. #Edchat

8. Other Ed.
Hashtags
#engchat, #spedchat,#musedchat, #sschat,
#cpchat,#libchat, #ellchat,#kinderchat...
Check out the whole list here
via @cybraryman

9. Take my PLN’s
word for it

12. “The smartest person in
the room is the room.”
anonymous

13. “If we can learn how to
share our perspectives,
we can see the whole
picture.
Davidson, Cathy N. (2011-08-18). Now You See It: How the Brain
Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and
Learn (Kindle Locations 141-142). VIKING ADULT. Kindle Edition. ”

14. Moving forward
with Twitter

15. #backchannel
conversations

16. Students are tweeting!

17. #bhschat

18. Follow Breaking
News Around The World

19. Watch
History
As It
Happens

20. Watch
History
As It
Happens

21. My Twitter
Resources

22. Tweetdeck