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Twitter for Trainers

Mark Frydenberg, Bentley University

Follow me on Twitter: @checkmark

Twitter for Skeptics

Mark Frydenberg, Bentley University

Follow me on Twitter: @checkmark

Who Needs Twitter?

I Don’t Care What You Had for Lunch.

Mark Frydenberg, Bentley University

Follow me on Twitter: @checkmark

“kids back then didn’t expect to be engaged by everything they did”

socialnetworking

Published: June 2, 2009Source: Nielsen

top 10growth

@poll

Wiffiti twitterfall

news

uh oh

view

world live web

How is twitter different from IM?

culture

giving

twitterbasics

tweet

retweet

Shortened url

User gets a copy

feed

Who I follow

Who follows

me

Popular

hashtag

tweet

retweet

short url

User gets a copy

feed

Who I follow

client

Client App vs Web App

twhirltweetdeck

search

#hashtags

TaggingMetadataNon-hierarchical, collaborative organization

trends

#followfriday

topfollow friday

APIsData on the Web is forever

spinoffs

backchannel

follow

followlearning

professionals

• http://twitter.com/onlinecourse• https://twitter.com/EduCounselor

twitterholic

twitter for trainers

Benefits• Integrated, Mobile Learning• Illustrates several tech

concepts• Connects people• Real world• Efficient microblogging• Backchannel• Effective for collaboration

with teachers and students

Concerns• Always available• Tweets Stored forever• Time consuming• Privacy• Distracting• Prmts bd grmmr bcz msgs

must be < 140 chr

Twitter for Trainers

Get Started• Create an Account• Complete Your Profile• Follow people • Get people to follow you!• Tweet

Get Going• Class Chatter• Community• Public Timeline• Follow a word or event• Ask for help• Follow professionals• Jot notes as they happen

Other Microblogging Tools

• http://www.edmodo.com• http://yammer.com

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