What is Twitter and Why Should I Use It? For educators looking to develop their personal learning network and enhancing the student learning experience. Presentation - Seneca College's Teaching and Learning with Technology Day, Oct 26, 2009.

1. What is and Why Should I Use It? Bhupesh Shah Teaching and Learning with Technology Day October 26, 2009 | Seneca College - King Campus

2. Agenda get acquainted overview of Twitter your Personal Learning Network Twitter and class management set up aTwitter account common mistakes

3. Let’s get acquainted tell someone what you did this past weekend your plans for study week how you are feeling ask a question or simply interact!

4. Twitter tell someone what you did this past weekend your plans for study week how you are feeling ask a question or simply interact! in 140 characters or less!

5. As my Mom would often say.... Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/53313745@N00/

6. Our teacher network in the good old days: Curriculum Documents Popular Media Print & Digital Resources Family /Local Community Colleagues Diagrams adapted from EXAMINING THE OPEN MOVEMENT: POSSIBILITIES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION (pdf. p182, doc, p.172) – Reproduced under a Creative Commons License – Alec Couros, Dec 2006)

7. What has changed?

8. Source: David Hopkins adapted from EXAMINING THE OPEN MOVEMENT: POSSIBILITIES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION (pdf. p182, doc, p.172) – Reproduced under a Creative Commons License – Alec Couros, Dec 2006) Now...

9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYz9M70KVR0

10. Personal Learning Network

11. Twerminology

12. Twerminology Tweet - general(post something) Retweet (RT)someone’s post D – post a direct message (private) @username - specific (public) #hashtag group & track discussions

13. 5 ways to build/enhance your PLN (personal learning network) Graphic source: http://www.intersectionconsulting.com/blog

14. PLN tips

15. Classroom Management

16. Classroom Management

17. Classroom Management

19. Use the name one would use when searching for you online xxxx@senecac.on.ca

20. Desktop and Web-based Twitter Resources (multi-account) TweetFunnel TweetDeck CoTweet Splitweet

21. Mobile Resources Twitterberry ÜberTwitter Tweetie Lounge Tweetdeck Tweeter Mobile Twikini Image sources: http://www.orangatame.com/; http://www.atebits.com; http://www.tweetermobile.co.uk; http://www.trinketsoftware.com

22. @SouthsideAdGuy @mmarando @ethnicomm @kathrinal http://www.twellow.com/category_users/cat_id/81 http://www.systemicmarketing.com/top-marketing-professors-on-twitter/ http://twitter4teachers.pbworks.com/ http://c4lpt.co.uk/connexions/ directory of learning professionals online http://associatedegree.org/2009/06/01/100-professors-you-should-follow-and-learn-from-on-twitter/ Academic that Tweet and other Resources

23. Twitiquette: Twitter Mistakes and les Faux Pas

24. Following Everyone Image source: http://thundafunda.com/33/underwater-animals-fish/School of Tropical Fish,Tahiti pictures underwater photos.jpg

25. Automatically Following Everyone that Follows You

26. Tweeting “testing this thing out”

27. Spending All Your Time on Twitter

28. Self-Promoting/Boasting

29. Sending Before Engaging the Brain

30. Twitter TMI

31. Being Anonymous

32. Being a Social Butterfly

33. Using the Twitter Website

34. Old News is NOT Good News

35. Cheating

36. Not Respecting Your Followers Image source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_14th_Dalai_Lama_FEP.jpg

37. Taking and NOTGiving

38. Getting Emotional Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinksherbet/

39. Not Leaving Roomfor Retweets

40. HoundingPeople Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/l_s_g/

41. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1twq7QCe19Y

42. Overview of Twitter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o