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welcome! We will begin ‘tweeting’ in a few minutes…

welcome! We will begin ‘tweeting’ in a few minutes…. achieving learning- 140 c haracters at a time- twitter in education. webinar for web 2.0 tools IT5660 - March, 22 nd team twitter Kim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas. Twitter Webinar Overview.

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  1. welcome!We will begin ‘tweeting’ in a few minutes…

  2. achieving learning- 140 characters at a time- twitter in education webinar for web 2.0 tools IT5660 - March, 22nd team twitterKim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

  3. Twitter Webinar Overview • What are you doing right now? • Microblogging & the emergence of twitter • What twitter is & what it can do • twitter applications • Outside the classroom • Inside the classroom • Brainstorming session- how can twitterwork for you? • Discover how twitter can be used to support learning • Tips & Tricks • getting the most out of twitter & avoiding common pitfalls • Closing • Next steps • Final Questions duwoods Before handing off to Ken, are there any questions about what we’ll be doing today? Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationKim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

  4. What are you doing right now?achieve learning-140 characters at a time- twitter in education

  5. Are you nervous about YOUR presentation? Oh, THAT Robin Williams! What do you think of William Horton? Have you figured out Adobe Connect yet? Planning a Spring Break? How is your favorite team doing? What are you doing right now? Seen this week’s big movie? What are your iPod’s top five played songs? How is President Obama doing? Reading an interesting book?

  6. What are other “Twitterers” doing right now? Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationKim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

  7. What are other “Twitterers” doing right now? Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationKim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

  8. What are other “Twitterers” doing right now? Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationKim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

  9. What are other “Twitterers” doing right now? Social Life Expression Entertainment Twitter Work Education Promotion Research Politics 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. Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationKim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

  10. Microblogging & the emergence of twitterachieve learning-140 characters at a time- twitter in education

  11. What is twitter? Where Did it Come From? Cartoonist Robert Crumb predicted Twitter in the 1960’s. Cartoon source: Christopher Herot(http://www.blogschmog.net/2007/11/17/a-brief-history-of-microblogging/) Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationKim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

  12. What is twitter? Where Did it Come From? As early as 1871, Western Union used a similar ‘one-to-many’ approach over the telegraph wires enabling remote: • Weddings • Meetings & • Gossip among Telegraphers Source: The Victorian Internet, Tom Standage, Berkley Books, 1998 .. | -.. --- | ..--.. | Morse Code for ‘I do!’ Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationKim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

  13. Microblogging and the Emergence of twitter What is Microblogging? What about that job? Did you hear about… How about dinner? How Microblogging Began Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationKim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

  14. A Brief History of twitter Photos:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationKim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

  15. A Brief History of twitter chrismgille Before handing off to Kim, are there any questions about microblogging or the history of Twitter? (from :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter) Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationKim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

  16. What twitter is what it can do…achieve learning-140 characters at a time- twitter in education

  17. What Twitter is What Can it Do? 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. What are you doing? I am…. Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationKim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

  18. How do I use twitter? Create an account It’s as easy as…. … - - 1 2 3 1 Decide who to ‘follow’ 2 Now it is time to ‘tweet’! 3 warning! You may now be ‘followed’! Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationKim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

  19. Create an account 1 To create an account on twitter, go to twitter.com, Then Click on ‘Get Started’ Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationKim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

  20. Create an account 1 To create an account, you must ‘join the conversation’… Then Click on ‘Create my account’ Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationKim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

  21. Decide who to ‘follow’ 2 Use one of twitters many ‘people’ finding applications: Click on ‘Find People’ Search for your family, friends or people with similar interests Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationKim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

  22. Decide who to ‘follow’ 2 Choose who to follow & your will receive their ‘tweets’… If you find someone interesting Click on ‘Follow’ Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationKim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

  23. Now it is time to ‘tweet’! 3 What are you doing now?—in 140 characters or less! 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. Now, choose when to tweet & when/how you will choose to listen to the tweets of others! Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationKim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

  24. Twitter applications-outside the classroomachieve learning-140 characters at a time- twitter in education

  25. Twirl Applications: Desktop Clients Spaz TweetDeck Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationKim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

  26. TwitterBerry Tiny Twitter Twitteriffic Applications: Mobile Clients Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationKim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

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

  28. Twitter applications-inside the classroomachieve learning-140 characters at a time- twitter in education

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

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

  31. Collaboration in The Virtual Classroom What ways can we use Twitter for education? Tools such as twitterfeed enable connectivity to RSS feeds, existing classroom modules or other mircoblogging technology. 1 Instructor feeds their tweets to twitterfeed. 2 Twitterfeeds pushes the info to the class via courseware or the students blog monitoring site of choice. Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationKim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

  32. Collaboration in The Virtual Classroom What ways can we use Twitter for education? Research Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationKim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

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

  34. Collaboration in The Virtual Classroom What ways can we use Twitter for education? Achieving Learning 140 Characters at a Time - Twitter in EducationKim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

  35. Collaboration in The Virtual Classroom 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 EducationKim Dunwoody, Christina Gille, and Kenneth Thomas

  36. Brainstorming Session-how can twitter work for you?achieve learning-140 characters at a time- twitter in education 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…

  37. Tips & tricksachieve learning-140 characters at a time- twitter in education chrismgille Before handing off to Kim for our closing, are there any questions about the job aids?

  38. After today’s session…. 1 Look for our job aid , in your email… 2 Use the job aid to set-up your twitter account… Closing 3 Follow the link we send you via twitter to take our formative survey!

  39. duwoods Thanks for attending our presentation! Good luck to all of you on yours! Closingachieve learning-140 characters at a time- twitter in education 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!”

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