webinar for web 2.0 tools IT March, 22 nd team twitter Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas duwoods Before handing off to Ken, are there any questions about what we’ll be doing today?

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KenDThomas Hey, our IT5660 class just “tweeted” – how cool is that? Thanks for letting us know what’s going on! Looks like you’re up, Chris. Entertainment Social Life Work Politics Research Education Expression Promotion

Cartoonist Robert Crumb predicted Twitter in the 1960’s. Cartoon source: Christopher Herot ( a-brief-history-of-microblogging/) Christopher Herot Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

As early as 1871, Western Union used a similar ‘one-to-many’ approach over the telegraph wires enabling remote: Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas Source: The Victorian Internet, Tom Standage, Berkley Books, | | | Morse Code for ‘I do!’

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Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas (from : ) chrismgille Before handing off to Kim, are there any questions about microblogging or the history of Twitter?

Twitter is an easy to use real-time ‘one-to-many’ messaging system. However may not be completely obvious how to join the ‘flock’, rest assured Team Twitter is here to help. We will not cover all of the features of Twitter—but we can help get you started. Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

It’s as easy as…. warning! You may now be ‘followed’! -- …

Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas Then Click on ‘Get Started’ To create an account on twitter, go to twitter.com,

Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas To create an account, you must ‘join the conversation’… Then Click on ‘Create my account’

Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas Use one of twitters many ‘people’ finding applications: Click on ‘Find People’ Click on ‘Find People’ Search for your family, friends or people with similar interests

Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas Choose who to follow & your will receive their ‘tweets’… If you find someone interesting Click on ‘Follow’ If you find someone interesting Click on ‘Follow’

Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas What are you doing now?—in 140 characters or less! Now, choose when to tweet & when/how you will choose to listen to the tweets of others! duwoods Any questions about setting up a Twitter account or getting started? When we’re ready to continue, Ken will show us some Twitter examples.

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Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas Twittervision Twitter Search TweetBeep KenDThomas I’m addicted to Twittervision – I especially love seeing tweets in foreign languages! Any questions before passing it to Kim?

What ways can we use Twitter for education? 1.Collaboration 2.Virtual Classroom 3.Research 4.Information Gathering 5. Project Management Does anyone have any questions on Unit 2? Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

What ways can we use Twitter for education? Source: Mediacultures.netMediacultures.net Uses twitter to respond to students questions in real time! Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

What ways can we use Twitter for education? Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas Tools such as twitterfeed enable connectivity to RSS feeds, existing classroom modules or other mircoblogging technology. Instructor feeds their tweets to twitterfeed. Twitterfeeds pushes the info to the class via courseware or the students blog monitoring site of choice.

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What ways can we use Twitter for education? Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas Virtual Classroom: An Example by David Perry

What ways can we use Twitter for education? Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

What ways can we use Twitter for education? Project Management Educators can monitor the learning process, post announcements, Task prompts or reminders, follow-ups. How is your group project going? duwoods Any questions about how people are using Twitter to support learning? Ken – let’s do some brainstorming to see how WE can use it! Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in Education Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

KenDThomas Wow – some GREAT ideas! Any questions? Next, Chris is going to talk about some job aids to help you set up and use Twitter…

chrismgille Before handing off to Kim for our closing, are there any questions about the job aids?

Look for our job aid, in your … Use the job aid to set-up your twitter account… Follow the link we send you via twitter to take our formative survey!

chrismgille Thanks for joining us – if you have any questions, please just “tweet!” KenDThomas I hope you found some interesting uses for Twitter it in your learning environment! Let us know if you come up with a good “treatment!” duwoods Thanks for attending our presentation! Good luck to all of you on yours!