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UEA Leadership Training Intro to Twitter

Elevate your teacher voice in Utah and enhance your understanding of Twitter through UEA's Leadership Training. Learn how to create a professional Twitter presence, communicate effectively, and participate in Twitter chats.

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UEA Leadership Training Intro to Twitter

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  1. UEA Leadership Training Intro to Twitter

  2. Who are Utah Teacher Fellows? • - 20 teachers elevating • teacher voice in Utah • education policy • - Annual research project • - Partners with USBE • - Part of a national • non-partisan non-profit

  3. Intended Professional Learning Outcomes • Create a Professional Twitter presence • Become proficient in basic Twitter communication • Become familiar with Twitter chats

  4. Creating a Twitter Profile: What to Include • Picking your Twitter Handle • Professional • Simple • Short (initials work) • Profile: Areas of Focus • Your job • Your focus/passion/speciality • Your affiliations/memberships/outside work • Links, Handles & Hashtags • Are there links to professional sites you should include? • Are there active hashtags that describe you or your passion? (#Deborahs) • Are there important twitter handles to include in your profile?

  5. Creating a Twitter Profile Examples

  6. I have a Twitter account -- now what? • Following-these are the peoplewhose tweets (meaning post) you will see in your feed. • Followers-these are the people who are following you and can see your posts in their feed. • you can chose to make your account public or private

  7. Lists -Collections of twitter handles related to a particular topic you can ‘subscribe to.’ Allows you to follow all tweets from twitter users on the list without following them individually. Can change periodically. Following Lists Examples:

  8. Retweet or Retweet with comment Direct Message Like Functions of Twitter Reply

  9. Tweet, Retweet, Retweet with Comment and of course--Like • Tweet- A posting on the social media website Twitter of up to 280 characters of text. Tweets typically contain photos, videos, blogs or website links. • RT- A retweet is when you share something someone else wrote. • RTC- A retweet with comment is when you share something written by someone else and include your own message in the quote box above the original tweet. • Like- you like or support what someone posted.

  10. Hashtags & Direct Messages • Hashtag- The hashtag is a way to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet. For ex., if you were tweeting about Utah Education use #UTed something to do with education policy or #UTpol for Utah politics. For tweets about this conference use • DM-A direct message (DM) is sent between users, not shown publicly on the timeline. You can only DM another user if they follow you.

  11. Direct Message Connections

  12. Participating in Twitter Chats

  13. Intended Professional Learning Outcomes • Practice basic functionality of a Twitter chat • Participate in a live Twitter chat

  14. A Twitter Chat is a live online discussion using Twitter. Every post is a tweet. Because it's on Twitter, it’s public and open to everyone with a Twitter account. Anyone can participate or just ‘listen in’ (aka lurk) to learn more about the topic.

  15. Twitter Chat: How? • SEARCH for the chat hashtag (e.g. #UTEdchat). • LOOK forposted questions (Q#). • RESPONDto the chat questions (A#). [reply or retweet with comment] • Be sure toINCLUDEthe hashtag.

  16. Make sure you are part of the CURRENT conversation by clicking on “latest” What does this look like? Find the chat by searching for the hashtag Ex: #UTedchat

  17. Getting Started • Search for the hashtag #UEAchatin the search bar • Select Latestto follow the chat • Answer the questions as they are posted, making sure to always include #UEAchat • Likeandretweet/retweet with quote when appropriate (refer to Introduction to Twitter Resource Guide if needed)

  18. Practice chat • YOUR TASK: • Reply to each question using the A# format • Comment on at least two other responses • Retweet one response you agree with • Retweet and comment on one response • QUESTIONS (#UEAchat) • Q1: In what ways is UEA a professional organization and not ‘just a union?’ • Q2: How does UEA support student learning and growth? • Q3: What questions do you still have on Twitter chats?

  19. Recommended chats... • Wednesdays, 9-10 pm #UTEdchat (Utah specific) • Thursdays, 5 pm #edchat (general education topics) • Mondays, 5 pm #sschat (Social Studies specific) • You can find many topics - search “Twitter chats”

  20. Don’t forget, Twitter chats... • Provide quick, on-demand professional learning • Expose you to educators you never knew existed and deepen your networks • Enable participants to share their passion, interests and expertise

  21. - Aaron Hogan

  22. Let’s Reflect • What was easy and why was it easy for you? • What was difficult and were you able to find a solution? • Did any common themes emerge? • How could Twitter chats support UEA engagement and teacher learning?

  23. Virtual Resources • ISTE article: 40 Twitter chats worth your time https://www.iste.org/explore/articleDetail?articleid=7 • Tweetdeck (to follow multiple chats on your computer): https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/how-to-use-tweetdeck • Twitter Basics for Teachers (from our HSG friends in Kentucky https://www.smore.com/app/pages/show_print/597be17116974f05dda9fc4d

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