Friday 16th June (10:00 – 12:00) – An introduction to Twitter in Higher Education. This session will provide an overview of the tool, demonstrate examples of how it is used in teaching to support learning, event hashtags and sharing of information.

1. An Introduction to Twitter in Higher Education
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2. Who am I?
Alex Spiers
Learning Technology
Developer
@alexgspiers
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3. Overview
What is it?
Terminology
How it is being
used?
Issues
Activities
Questions
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6. Happy 6th Birthday
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9. https://clt.vtc.edu.hk/what-happens-online-in-60-seconds/ #LIVUNITEL

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13. https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/opinion/tell-us-about-your-paper-and-make-it-short-and-tweet
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14. http://www.healthandcommunications.com/blog/2015/8/31/8utx8sait2y475x5wv11omlk6fsf9p
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16. Professional
Practice
Technology
Events/
ConferencesHE News
Breaking
News
Research
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17. Photo by kewl - Creative Commons Attribution License https://www.flickr.com/photos/58411470@N00 Created with Haiku Deck
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18. Tour, terminology & tasks

20. Ten Days of Twitter was originally developed by created by Helen Webster.
The materials are available under a Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA.
1. Set up a profile
2. Following people
3. Sending a tweet
4. @messages
5. Embedding and shortening URLs
6. Retweeting
7. Hashtags
8. Managing people (apps to create lists)
9. Managing information (apps to curate links)

21. Setting up an account

22. Decisions you have to make
• Public or Private
• DM or Tagging from others
• Notifications
• Video autoplay (mobile)
Settings

23. Activity
• Search for content

24. #ff Follow FridayFollowing & Followers

25. Following & Followers
Following is trial and error – filter your followers (or interests) regularly

26. Activity
• Search for content

27. Sending @ messagesSend a Tweet

28. Tweet

29. Activity
• Search for content

30. The @ sign is used to call out usernames in Tweets,
like this:
@

31. Activity
• Search for content

32. Tweeting Links

33. Tweeting URLs
A URL of any length will be altered to 23 characters,
even if the link itself is less than 23 characters long. Your
character count will reflect this.
• Tinyurl.com
• Goo.gl Owned by Google this will also produce a QR
code for your link and if you have a Google+ account,
you can track statistics on click-through. This is useful if
you’re evaluating publicity strategies for a new web
resource or event.
• events.
• Bit.ly You can also track click-throughs with this site.

34. Activity
• Search for content

35. RetweetsRT (retweet)

36. Re-sharing or giving credit to someone else’s
tweet. Quote tweet allows you to share another
tweet and add comment about it.
RT (retweet)

37. Activity
• Search for content

38. #Hashtags# hash tag (search term)

39. # hash tag (search term)

40. Activity
• Search for content

41. Managing people in TwitterManaging People

42. Block
You can Block anyone you don’t want to be
following you. Blocking prevents a user from @
message, DM or adding you to a list. It

43. Lists
You can create a public or private list of people and
accounts you are interested in. This helps you filter
information.

44. Activity
• Search for content

45. Managing information in Twitter
• Favourites
• Search
• Trending
• Extras - flipboard
Managing information

46. Favourites/Likes
Adding a favourite
tweet is similar to
‘like’ in Facebook
and can be used
to bookmark a
tweet.

47. Polls & Gifs

48. Apps

49. Tweetdeck

50. Nuzzle

51. Activity
• Search for content

52. VITAL (Blackboard)

53. #LIVUNITEL

54. https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/intranet/marketing-and-communications/pr-media-relations/social-media/
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55. Photo by Jason A. Howie - Creative Commons Attribution License https://www.flickr.com/photos/40493340@N00 Created with Haiku Deck
Social Media for
Academic Staff
• Introduction to Twitter in
Higher Education
• Getting more out of
Twitter: Tools, tips &
tricks
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56. Photo by Meaning conference - Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License https://www.flickr.com/photos/87796244@N07 Created with Haiku Deck
Tuesday 2nd May 3pm @ Central Teaching Lab

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Contact the eLearning Unit
Internal: 44567 (CSD helpdesk)
eunit@liverpool.ac.uk
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@elearninglpool
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