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Background
Account Setup
Uses of Twitter
Twitter Terminology
Twitter in Higher Education
what is microblogging??
Type of broadcast media in the form of blogging
Status updates in Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn
Twitter, Tumblr
Most prominent characteristic – brevity
Founded 2006 by Jack Dorsey
Privately owned company based in San Francisco
Sept. 2010 – 175 million registered users posting 95 million tweets per day
about twitter
www.twitter.com
If you have an account, log in
If you would like an account,
If you don’t know if you really want an account, use one of our test accounts (rula_1 …)
www.twitter.com
Joining the Conversation
www.twitter.com
customizing twitter
customizing twitter
Keeping in touch with friends/family
Current Events
Track Trends
Get quick answers to questions
Be several places at once
Educational tool
Why use twitter?
1. Gulf Oil Spill2. FIFA World Cup3. Inception4. Haiti Earthquake5. Vuvuzela6. Apple iPad7. Google Android8. Justin Bieber9. Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows10. Pulpo Paul
Year in review 2010
40%
38%
9%
6%
4% 4%
Content of Tweets
Pointless babble
Conversational
Pass-along value
Self-promotion
Spam
News
Tweet
Follow
Reply - @
Direct Message
Twitter terminology
#mla2010
#Ryerson #highered
#ryerson20#stlhe2010
#LOST
Twitter terminology
hashtags
People
@mwesch@academicdave@BarrackObama
Ryerson
@RyersonLTO@ryersonlibrary@RyersonU@RyersonDMZ
Higher Ed
@chronicle@educause
Test accounts
@rula_1 @rula_2 @rula_3 @rula_4
Searching Tweets - Basic Search
Advanced search http://search.twitter.com
(Tweets, Tweets with Links, Tweets Near You, People)
searching twitter
iPhone, Android, iPad,
Tweetdeck, Hootsuite, Seesmic etc.
twitter tools
TwitterLive
Twitter widgets
twitter feeds
Follow a professional
Develop a classroom community
Global awareness via Twitter timeline
Tracking word usage
Conference tracking via hashtags
Survey tool
Class participation
twitter in academia
50 Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroomhttp://goo.gl/ilScI
Twitter for Academia (AcademicDave)http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2008/twitter-for-academia/
100 Ways to Teach with Twitterhttp://www.educause.edu/blog/kwalsh1/100WaystoTeachwithTwitter/198112
twitter in academia
