Twitter Veterans:
If you are a Twitter veteran - DON'T LEAVE! Scroll to the bottom and check out the resources! Did you know your students and their parents can follow your Twitter feed via text? There is still a lot of useful information for you in the RESOURCES section!
If you are a Twitter veteran - DON'T LEAVE! Scroll to the bottom and check out the resources! Did you know your students and their parents can follow your Twitter feed via text? There is still a lot of useful information for you in the RESOURCES section!
Getting Started for Twitter Newbies:
Signing up for Twitter
Signing up for Twitter
- Go to twitter.com and sign up for a new account. All you need is an existing email address to create a Twitter account. See How to Sign up on Twitter for tips.
- Complete your profile.
- Upload a profile picture.
- Find some people to follow-start with your fellow SPS staff members, other people in your curriculum area and then see who they follow. Here is a link to help you find people on Twitter.
- You can read their tweets before you follow someone in order to determine if their tweets are the type of information you want to see in your Twitter feed.
- The Twitter Basics Help Center is a great place to learn more! Also try this Twitter for Teachers guide:
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Here is a 10 minute tour of Twitter:
You can use a class twitter account to share information with parents and students. Parents don't even have to be on Twitter to follow your class feed, they just text "follow @yourusername" to 40404 and they will get your tweets as texts. To learn more about this feature, try this link.
Just getting started yourself? You can follow a user (@mrbadura) or a hashtag (#nebedu or #sewardjays), both are great ways to get information. Following a user lets you see all of the tweets that user puts out. A hashtag groups tweets together that all use that same hashtag - your class could have a twitter conversation using a class hashtag. (Check this out for more information on hashtags.) As long as everyone is using that hashtag, you will be able to see the entire conversation, each person using 140 characters or less!
Resources:
We have our own #sewardjays Twitter directory, add your information to it!
Just getting started yourself? You can follow a user (@mrbadura) or a hashtag (#nebedu or #sewardjays), both are great ways to get information. Following a user lets you see all of the tweets that user puts out. A hashtag groups tweets together that all use that same hashtag - your class could have a twitter conversation using a class hashtag. (Check this out for more information on hashtags.) As long as everyone is using that hashtag, you will be able to see the entire conversation, each person using 140 characters or less!
Resources:
- Check here for a great list of educational hashtags.
- A guide to using Twitter in your classroom with so many excellent ideas!
- Getting good with Twitter and want to do more with it - check this out!
- Twitter is a powerful tool for teachers to use as professional development! You can share what you are doing and learn from others.
- This is just a FEW resources - there are SO MANY out there - use Google and go crazy!!
We have our own #sewardjays Twitter directory, add your information to it!
Your Task:
- Sign up for a Twitter Account (if you don't already have one!)
- Create or update your profile and add a picture - get rid of the egg head! Make sure you include information in your profile that will help you connect with like-minded educators - your grade level/subject, etc.
- Add your name to the #sewardjays Twitter directory.
- Follow 10 new people in education - here are some excellent #nebedu people to follow, or find your own. Don't forget the #sewardjays directory - there are great people in there, too!
- Send a minimum of 10 tweets using the #sewardjays hashtag - find a great resource to use or retweet one that someone else has found!