Twitter for educators presentation from the 2011 Wisconsin SLATE conference. Presented by Jay Posick, Jessica Johnson, and Curt Rees. If anyone would want a copy of this, just email me (curtrees@gmail.com) and I'll send it to you. Feel free to edit as you wish.

1. Escaping your educator
island through Twitter
SLATE Conference
December 2011

2. By the end of this session...
•You will have a Twitter account and have sent
a tweet.
•You’ll know the basics of Twitter (tweet,
follow, hashtags, mentions)
•You’ll start building your PLN

4. WHAT IS
?

5. IS A WEB 2.0 TOOL.

6. WHAT IS
IS A WEB 2.0 TOOL.
?

10. Make sense?

12. Educator’s

13. Imagine if all your advice and
feedback came from the same small
group of people, or no one at all.

14. Imagine if all your advice and
feedback came from the same small
group of people, or no one at all.

15. • is a form of micro-blogging
• short messages known as tweets
• no more than 140 characters

17. Why use Twitter?

18. Why use Twitter?

19. More Important than Biebs’
hair and Ashton/Demi
• 24/7 Professional Development
• PLN= Professional/Personal
Learning Network

22. Global audience Niche community
Like sending a Group of people
text to the interested in
whole world same topic.
Short and sweet Free and easy

23. With Twitter, you can ask those “dumb” questions that
you might not want to ask those you work closely with.

24. With Twitter, you can ask those “dumb” questions that
you might not want to ask those you work closely with.
Or you could
avoid asking
your important
questions to
dumb people. :)

25. Bouncing your ideas off your PLN could save
you from a bad idea.

26. ACCESS TO EXPERTS IN
EDUCATION
Almost anyone can be tolerated in under
140 characters!

28. Who tweeted?

29. Enough talk, let’s Tweet

30. Enough talk, let’s Tweet
Where is the
@ sign on
this thing?

33. Timeline

34. Protected tweet

36. Direct Message

37. Who to start following on twitter?
• People you know
• Friends of friends
• Other Interesting People

38. People You Know

39. Terminology
· Tweep or Twit: a Twitter user
· Tweet: using Twitter to send text message
· Follower: a tweep who tracks your tweets
· Shorten URL: use a URL trimming site
· Re-Tweet or RT: resending another twit’s tweet
· DM: direct message in private to a specific twit
· @ reply: sent to a specific tweep but visible to all
· #: hash mark designating topic as in #genealogy
#hashtag http://hashtags.org track the popularity of a
hash tag and see recent tweets using that tag as well as
photos and even videos
· Avatar: your Twitter profile photo
More terminology at Twittonary http://www.twittonary.com
PLN: Your Professional Learning Network
See the session handout

40. Scheduled Chats
Mondays:
#mathchat 2:30-4:00 pm CST Thursdays:
(repeat of Thursday's topic) #artsed 7:30 pm EST
#sschat 6pm CST #mathchat 7:00 pm EST
#engchat 6pm CST #langchat 8:00 pm EST
#4thchat 7pm CST #isedchat 9:00 pm EST
#musedchat 7pmCST Fridays:
#gtchat Noon & 7 pm EST
Tuesdays: #daily5 7pm CST
#edchat (vote)
noon & 7pm EST Saturdays:
#scichat 9pm EST #elemchat 5 pm EST
#spedchat 7:30 CST
Sundays:
Wednesdays: #titletalk 8 - 9 pm EST
#ELTchat 7 am EST & 4 pm EST Chat about titles & how to promote
#web20chat 6pm EST
#ntchat 8pm EST reading to students
#ptchat 9 pm EST #1stchat 7pm CST
#educoach 9pm CST
#3rdchat 6pm CST
#2ndchat 7pm CST

41. TWEETCHAT DEMO
Go to www.tweetchat.com
Choose a hashtag you want to
follow and type it in.
#edtech
#gobadgers
#pencilchat

42. Your bio….
How do you want to present yourself?
• I am a teacher/educator/coach/administrator….
• Interested in:
-Math
-Science
-Reading
-Technology
-Instructional Leadership
• Teaching level
• Any other info from you that will attract the
followers YOU want to learn from
• Insert images of mine and some other profile
screenshots

43. Handout –
http://bit.ly/tdmY1P
Please add yourself –
http://bit.ly/WIeducators

44. 3 Steps for Using Twitter Successfully
http://www.brandontwyford.com/?p=281
1.What is your reason for using Twitter?
2.Follow and interact
3.Be active

45. Trivia time: What was the name of the actor
who played The Professor?
Tweet your
answer with the
hashtag
#SLATE2011

46. Tension mounts as
the castaways wait
for a response from
@uscoastguard.

47. I sure wish
I hadn’t
tweeted
that.

48. Happiness for
Mr. Howell as
he gains his
1000th Twitter
follower

49. T

50. Original Gilligan theme presentation
created by:
•Jessica Johnson (@PrincipalJ)
•Jay Posick (@posickj)
•Curt Rees (@WiscPrincipal)