A slide deck to accompany an introductory session on using Twitter as a professional educator at NKCS Summer Academy 2014...

5. ...this might better approximate reality.

7. For Educators

10. STEP ONE:
Sign up.

11. This…
…is not good.

12. STEP TWO:
Add content (aka: tweet)

14. WHO ARE YOU?
WHAT ARE YOUR
INTERESTS?WHAT are
you learning?

15. STEP THREE:
Follow interesting
learners.

17. LISTS
Twitter

18. http://bit.ly/NKCSedus
via @LauraGilchrist4

19. STEP FOUR:
Engage.

20. STEP FIVE:
Find your voice.

21. STEP six:
Keep it positive.

23. STEPS seven & beyond:
Managing the flow.

24. #
hashtags:
#edchat
#moedchat
#nkcsedu

27. for OSX
Tweetdeck
Twitterriffic

30. “It is no longer enough
to do powerful work if no one sees it.”
Chris Lehmann

33. “I think it would be really cool to
have a sweet coral like Osha
found that was 350 millions
years old. (Rugosa spp.) I also
found it interesting that there
were some freakin ancient corals
in IOWA!” -Torin McKinley, 2008

37. “...by using the website, while
just thinking my thoughts out
loud into cyberspace, an author
heard and sent me a piece of
ancient history.” -Torin McKinley

38. “…I still have it too! I keep it on
my desk. It's always
encouraged me to engage
people. Like taking personal
interest in their interests.”
-Torin McKinley
Update: six years later, on (5/3/14) via Twitter:

39. THANK YOU
@nashworld

40. Artwork Thanks
• WWIII Propaganda: Loose Tweets Sink Fleets by Brian Moore on Flickr via CC license
• Ya estoy en Twitter by Rosaura Ochoa on Flickr via CC license
• Twitter by Tom Raferty on Flickr via CC license
• Twitter Logo by Paul Snelling on Flickr via CC license
• Bird on the Wire by Thomas Tolkien on Flickr via CC License
• Trio by Leanda Xavian on Flickr via CC license.
• Mountain Bluebird by Shawn McCready on Flickr via CC license