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A Dose of Twitter for Every Day of the Year December 2, 2009

Cure What Ails You:
A Dose of Twitter for Every Day of the Year
VSTE 09 Closing Keynote
Kathy Schrock

1. Support page: http://linkyy.com/7u
2. Books:
   • The Twitter Book by Tim O’Reily
   • Twitter for Dummies
3. What is twitter?
   • Online messaging service
   • One-to-many
   • Messages are public (option for private)
   • 140 characters
   • Follow or not follow
4. Why should I use twitter?
   • Follow famous people or just your friends
   • Find our more about companies or causes
   • Get instant feedback about anything
   • Gvie back to others
   • Spread others’ messages
5. 2010 Projected Twitter users: 26 Million
6. Howard Rheingold
   • “Successful use of twitter means knowing how to tune the network of people you follow, and how to feed the network of people who follow you.”
7. How does it work?
   • Sign up for an account @ twitter.com
   • Choose a good username (make it short)
   • See what friends use Twitter
8. Twitter vocabulary
   • Tweet: a twitter post
   • Retweet: you post someone else’s tweet
   • @mention: reply to someone else’s tweet
   • Follow: receive tweets from another user
   • Direct Message: direct one-to-one response (does not show in timeline)
   • Hashtag: allows tagged tweets to appear in a single list (uses the # sign)
   • Fail Whale: Logo page that appears when Twitter site is down
   • Tweetup: real life gathering of twittering colleagues
   • Twitterized: word turned into a new word that uses a portion of “twitter”
9. Twitter applications
   • Tweetie
   • Tweetdeck
   • Twhirl
   • Twitteriffic
   • Twitterberry
   • Twitter Mail
   • Twitter mobile website
   • Twitterbox
10. Finding others
    • Click on friend’s friends or look at their lists
    • Search Twitter by keyword
    • Button on someone’s website (caution!)
    • Directories
    • Recommendation engines
      • Wefollow.com (search by group name)
      • twitter4teachers (wiki)
      • Who Should I Follow? (analyzes who you follow)
    • twittercounter
11. Twitter and your PLN
    • Right tool for certain things
      • Keeping up with friends
      • Asking for help or advice
      • Offering your expertise
    • Leads to deeper connections
12. Twitter and your classroom
    • Tweet as a historical figure
    • Student summaries of readings
    • Students share a hyperlink (current events, topics, etc.)
    • Collaborative writing (use hashtags)
      • @manyvoices
    • Post a question at night (summary, teaser)
    • Follow a breaking news story
    • Practice foreign language
      • @rosinella
13. Tools to extend twitter
    • Tag clouds
      • tweetcloud
      • twittersheep
      • tweetvolume
    • Filtering data
    • Relationships
      • twitterdigest
    • Followers
      • twitterless
    • Searching
      • http://search.twitter.com
      • search by keyword or hashtag
      • tips and tricks for search operators
      • readtwit
        • allows you to follow links in feed via RSS reader
14. Twitter tips and tricks
    • URL shortening
      • linkyy
    • use punctuation
      • =
      • &
      • ?
      • 2 = to/too
      • etc
15. Fun with twitter
    • Share pics
      • twitpic
    • share videos
      • twitvid
    • followfamous
    • twitlogo
      • make your own twitter-looking words
16. Miscellaneous
    • Mistakes
      • tweet an entire event
      • survey request
        • ask for opinions from followers only
      • didn’t realize they were watching
        • careful how much info you post
17. Comic Relief
    • woofer.com (1400 characters)
    • the homing-twigeon