Apps that support and enhance the value of twitter
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This document discusses various apps and tools that can enhance the use of Twitter as a professional development (PD) tool. It describes Twitter's core features of short text posts and real-time updates. It then summarizes several apps including Twibes for finding others with similar interests, Tagdef for understanding hashtags, TweetedTimes for organizing tweets into newspapers, Scribd for sharing documents, GroupTweet for private group tweeting, Twitcam for live streaming, and Spezify for visual hashtag searches. The document advocates using Twitter for teaching and learning through communities, resources sharing, and interacting with experts. It provides tips for maximizing tweet impact and lists review questions about the summarized tools.
Apps that support and enhance the value of twitter
- 1. Apps that Support and Enhance the Value of Twitter as a PD Tool Rita Zeinstejer GCT 2008 Rosario, Argentina
- 2. • exponent of “snack culture” • privileges text brevity, users´mobility and virtual networks as social environments • answers one question: What´s happening…? What’s Microblogging…?
- 3. • imposes necessity to abbreviate fitting in ideas • develops skills for word selection • fulfils a need of …being fast and getting instant feedback • …getting more connections • encourages autonomous learning • uses tags to build up a network • helps share real time data • shapes your own community microblogging pluses
- 6. •“a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates…” Wikipedia •“the most popular of the genre of 'microblogging' tools that emulate SMS messaging but fall short of blogging…” V. Stevens •“one of the largest platforms in the world for sharing real- time data” Douglas A. McIntyre, in TIME Twitter
- 9. •combines features of SMS text messages and blogs •up to 140 characters long text-based posts •updates instantly delivered •updates via instant messaging, SMS, RSS, email Features http://twitter.com/home
- 11. Everyday use…? •dissemination of publications and materials •product recommendations •serendipitous improvement •serendipitous discovery •locating original sources of ideas, quotes, etc. •following celebrities •getting updated on latest news
- 12. Use Hashtags as a search engine Twitter Search: the most powerful search engine connects with REAL time information
- 13. General teaching and learning #Edtech – anything to do with technology in the classroom #education – anything to do with education #elearning – mostly about computer based learning, although also covers anything to do with the ‘e’ role in learning #teachers – focuses on the teacher #edchat – a weekly and lively discussion about all things education #ntchat – resources for new teachers #teachmeet – connecting teachers #ukedchat – UK teacher chat most popular teaching hashtags:
- 16. for educators…? it’s a virtual staff room, a learning network & community join any conference share discussion during/ after follow the stream connect with likeminded people share resources easily and quickly perfect tool for mobile devices
- 17. a personal learning tool: it´s a powerful learning tool a great information filter lets me interact with experts I’ll never meet f2f it’s an instant give-and-take forces me to be a reflective learner my Twitter network is the smartest and fastest
- 18. create a strong profile page keep your profile professional proper use of etiquette know who to follow use hashtags use Twitter for research share what you read : build an online reputation, spark academic discussions use Twitter for teaching and learning use Twitter tools and apps as a PD tool….
- 20. http://www.twibes.com/ a group of Twitter users interested in a common topic
- 22. finds Twitter people interested in similar topics enables people to meet and participate in conversations gathers likeminded members around key words organizes tweets encourages community formation anybody can find and join any group
- 28. online platform: lets you publish and discover documents on the Web works like YouTube, but you browse and upload texts instead of videos post documents of various formats, and embed them into a web page find and share documents unlimited storage it’s a user-generated library for documents, not a personal online journal you update periodically claims that you'll find more information than on Wikipedia !!
- 34. read Twitter as a daily newspaper organize links shared on Twitter into an easy-to-read newspaper-style format. newspapers can be created for any Twitter user, list or #tag explore newspapers by topic, tags and types http://tweetedtimes.com
- 36. helps groups communicate privately via Twitter send a private message to another user + send it to multiple users enables 2 to 100,000+ contributors to tweet from the same account contributors' names can be hidden or displayed at the beginning or end of each Tweet multiple contributors add content to your Twitter account, but keep full control of content/timing: GroupTweet's Message Moderation feature / http://www.grouptweet.com
- 37. promotes use of Twitter http://screenr.com/ instant screencasts for Twitter web-based recorder: nothing to download
- 40. search engine: takes a topic of interest and turns search results into a flipboard with videos, tweets, flickr images http://spezify.com/ visual search
- 42. http://twitcam.livestream.com/ posts your video description and link to Twitter for all your followers to see chat with your viewers via Twitter right from your broadcast page archive your video and display it on the same page free + no sign-up/no software required stream LIVE on Twitter!!
- 44. Maximize the Impact of your Tweets include a link: provide content to your audience leave some extra space: encourage engagement be brief and succint Dnt 4get 2check out R evnt tnite@our office-its gna b gr8 NO open up a conversation use a hashtag: expand your reach give credit where credit is due: people are notified http://leancontent.it/post/43087807643/6-tricks-to-maximize-the-impact-of- your-tweets
- 45. let’s recap Which tool helps you… • find people with similar interests? • create a newspaper? • share your documents? • tweet from a group account safely? • streams your tweets live on Twitter? • discover what a hashtag means? • search images around a topic? • screencast your message?
Editor's Notes
- #19: http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/10/twitter-for-professional-development.html HASHTAG: a way to categorize messages; Clicking on a hashtagged word in any message shows you all other Tweets marked with that keyword. If you Tweet with a hashtag on a public account, anyone who does a search for that hashtag may find your Tweet