Learn how to create a Twitter account and start tweeting at the 2011 Arkansas ASCD Conference

1. Twitter : For Beginners
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2. What is Twitter?
?
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3. What is Twitter?
• Twitter is not just about people telling other people what they
had for breakfast
• But it can be if you want
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4. What is Twitter?
• Being on Twitter doesn’t mean you’ll automatically be friends
with celebrities
• But you can try
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5. What is Twitter?
• Twitter isn’t going to take up all of your time
• But it might if you let it
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6. What is Twitter?
• Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service
that enables its users to send and read other users' updates
known as tweets (Wikipedia 26/03/08)

7. What is Twitter?
• Like other Social Media tools (facebook, youtube, blogs) twitter
works two ways
1. You can view content created by others
2. You can create content for others to view
• On Twitter this ‘content’ is made up of 140 character tweets
(vitally these characters can provide links to images, video,
and WebPages)
• Like other Social Media tools you can just use it one way, but it
works best if you do both

8. What is Twitter?
• So…
• Twitter is a service or a tool
• It’s up to you what you do with it
• What is actually possible is dependent on the users of the
service

9. What can I do with Twitter?
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10. What can I do with Twitter?
• Get the Latest News
• Don’t wait for journalists to write up the story, get the
latest from the people at the scene as it happens
• News of the Mumbai terrorist attacks, and the US
Airways Plane landing on the Hudson River, both
appeared on Twitter before anywhere else

11. What can I do with Twitter?
• Network at the conference and beyond Follow tweets at
twubs.com/11aascd
• Looking for people or particular info? Post a question.
• Find an interesting site, video, resource? Share the
link with the rest of us.
• Snap a pic or record a video of your team, an idea,
something fun and share.
• Share an idea.

12. What can I do with Twitter?
• Get Information
• Follow people who share the
information you need
e.g. follow people in Digital and
get a constant stream of the
information relevant to you
• Of course you could look for it
all yourself, but why waste
hours searching when there are
thousands of people doing it for
you?

13. What can I do with Twitter?
• Get more specific
Information
• Use twitter search to
find tweets on the
specific topic you
want
e.g. Search:
augmented reality

14. What can I do with Twitter?
• Get Even more
specific Information
• Ask the people of
twitter a question

15. How do I get started?
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16. How do I get started?
• Simple, just go to
www.twitter.com
• Pick a username
• Fill out the info so people
know what to expect from
your tweets
• Now you have a Twitter
account

17. How do I get started?
• Join the conversations at convention
• Go to
http://twubs.com/
11aascd.
• Log in using
your Twitter
account.

18. How do I get started?
• Join the conversations at convention
• Type a tweet
(your message)
in the box, and
click “Send
Tweet.”
• Your message
will display with
other tweets
below the box.

19. How to use the features
• That’s the basics.
• But, to really interact with Twitter you need to learn a few
more things

20. How to use the features
• Reply to Tweets
• You can reply to any tweet you see on Twitter, just click on the
reply arrow located bottom right of their tweet
• Your reply is public and identified by having ‘@username’ at
the beginning on the tweet
• If you don’t want it to be public you can send the user a Direct
message

21. How to use the features
• Re-tweet
• See a tweet you like, then you might want to tweet it yourself
• This is called re-tweeting, and convention is to credit the user
by starting your tweet with ‘RT@username’

22. How to use the features
• You can see any replies to
your tweets in the @Replies
section
• If you want to see if anyone
has Re-tweeted any of your
tweets you need to search
‘@yourusername’ in Twitter
Search

23. Want to learn about using Twitter in the classroom?
• Watch a slideshow:
http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2009/09/22/50-terrific-twitter-
tutorials-for-teachers/
• Check out 50 Twitter Tutorials for Teachers

24. Start Tweeting!