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Understanding Twitter: Crafting Tweets and Using Hashtags Effectively

This guide introduces Twitter, a social media platform that allows users to share thoughts and updates in 140 characters or less. Learn what tweets are and how they function. Discover the importance of hashtags for categorizing your content, helping users to find specific tweets. Engaging activities, like "Think-Pair-Share," will guide you through writing your own tweets and hashtags. With fun examples and collaborative exercises, you'll be equipped to communicate your ideas succinctly and effectively on Twitter.

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Understanding Twitter: Crafting Tweets and Using Hashtags Effectively

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  1. Twitter Review • What is Twitter? • What is a tweet? • Short information about what you are thinking or doing • 140 characters or less • What is a hashtag? • Categorizes your tweet • It helps find specific tweets based on the hashtag you are searching.

  2. http://www.commoncraft.com/video/twitter Twitter Info Video

  3. What are hash tags? • http://support.twitter.com/groups/31-twitter-basics/topics/109-tweets-messages/articles/49309-what-are-hashtags-symbols#

  4. Guess what we are going to do now?

  5. Write your own tweets! • Step 1 – Whole Class • Step 2 – With a partner “Think-Pair-Share” • Step 3 – Independently

  6. Whole Class • 1) Write a tweet that corresponds with a hash tag I give you • 140 characters (including spaces) or less • 2) Write a hash tag to a tweet I give you • Use the number (#) sign at the beginning • Categorize the content of the tweet

  7. Whole Class – Write a hash tag to this tweet It’s the first full week of school!

  8. Whole Class – Write a tweet that goes with this hash tag #summerisover

  9. With a partner – “Think, Pair, Share” 1) Write a hash tag to this tweet Meeting people in my classes the first day… 2) Write a tweet that goes with this hash tag #bestthingthissummer

  10. Independently 1) Write a hash tag to this tweet I cannot believe I got to do this today! I am so lucky! 2) Write a tweet that goes with this hash tag #thingsilovetodo 3) Write your own tweet and a hash tag that categorizes it.

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