21 Ways To Connect & Integrate Social Media Into Classrooms

1. 21 Ways To Connect & Integrate Social Media Into Classrooms Presentation : 2012 Dr. Howie DiBlasi(Retired C.I.O.) “Emerging Technologies Evangelist” Digital Journey howie@frontier.netwww.drhowie.com Twitter = hdiblasi

2. Extensive experience Education field, (20 years) Business leader, (10 years) C.I.O. (14 years) Recognized as “Vocational Teacher of the Year” for the State of Arizona Finalist in the “Top Secondary Leaders in America”. C.I.L.C with the "Pinnacle Award" for outstanding Professional Development Programs I.S.T.E. as the “Best of the Best” for outstanding Professional Development Programs for 2011. Dr. Howie DiBlasi

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5. Think you know TWITTER. Think again!

6. “There's something going on here that's hard to explain.“Bob Dylan Quote .. on a visit to Israel in the early 1970s

7. Categories of Social Media: 1. Social News 2. Social Bookmarking Social Networking 4. Social Collaborations 5. Social Photo and Video Sharing

8. Top 5 Most Popular Social Networking Sites | Sept. 2012 • 1 Facebook 750,000,000 • 2Twitter250,000,000 • 3 LinkedIn 150,000,000 • 4 MySpace 70,500,000 • 5 Google Plus+ 65,000,000

9. Why Twitter? • What’s the point of Twitter?

10. twitter in 60 secondshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYz9M70KVR0&feature=player_embedded#!

11. What can I do with Twitter ? Instant updates News Friends and family Homework Ask for recommended books Ask for help or advice Tweet about a useful web resource Provide a daily tip Tweet about your school's website Answer someone else's general question Ask others for favorites

12. Why, again, dear educator, aren’t you on Twitter?If you were on Twitter… Scott McLeod http://bigthink.com/ideas/38698

13. @hdiblasi

14. How do you use Twitter in the Classroom/Administration • TodaysMeet • http://todaysmeet.com/twitter3

15. Create a Twitter account and start sending “Tweets” http://twitter.com/ Free online account • Find friends and colleagues -Follow • @ D DM # • (send) short updates-tweets, of 140 or fewer characters

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17. WeFollow is a site where Twitter users can add themselves to three categories. Jump on over to these categories (called tags) to find educators to follow: teacher, edtech, education, educator, principal, or see the entire list of tags.

18. Educators connected world wide every day….

22. Desktop Applications for Twitter Twitter Organization Manage Multiple Twitter Accounts Twitter for Companies Firefox Plugins Send to Twitter using Voice Blackberry Clients iPhone Twitter Apps Twitter on any Mobile device Twitter on Windows Mobile Post via Mobile Send via eMail Counter to show followers Enhance your Tweets Follow Tools Top Twitter Lists Visual Map of Twitter Posts Share Files, Pictures & Videos Share Info from Webpages Monitor for Keywords & Whats Hot Monitor Conversations Monitor Trends Autoresponder & Automatic Tweets Autopost your Blog entries to Twitter Evaluate your Twitter Profile Twitter Statistics and Graphs Twitter Dictionary Twitter Directory Directory Links on Twitter

23. 10 Things Teachers Should Know to Get Started with TwitterPosted by Tony Vincent • Free online service where each user has his or her own webpage that they update as often as they want 140 characters or less at a time. • Users update their pages with news, conversation, resources, questions, quotes, humor, and sometimes useless information. People often call these short posts updates or tweets. • Many educators use Twitter to connect, collaborate, ask questions, and build a sense of community. This is called microblogging because it's like having a blog where the posts are very short. Here are some recent tweets I saw when I logged into my Twitter.com account:

24. Five Ways Twitter Will Make You Smarter • 1. You get access to different points of views. • 2.  The people you follow point you to great resources you wouldn’t find otherwise. • 3. You can poll your followers. • 4. You can learn what educators are saying about your district or school. • 5. Twitter will make you a better writer.

25. >> Check out Twitter Search

26. >>>> CREATE YOUR ACCOUNT • After signing up for Twitter • Click Settings in the upper-right corner • Account tab to complete your profile information. • Input your profile-user's name, location, website, and short bio • Find others to follow • Lets try one follow FIRST: • Locate the search BOX • Type in: hdiblasi or • Type in: Tony Vincent • Click FOLLOW

27. >>> Your turn: CHECK this out • WeFollow • Twitter users can add themselves to three categories • Jump on over to these categories (called tags) to find educators to follow: • Teacher • Edtech • Education • technology • education • educator, principal, or see the entire list of tags.

28. From the www.drhowie.com WEB SITE • TOP Educators/Leaders/Administrators to follow on TWITTER  ( Download word doc here )

29. Educators on Twitter is a Google Docs spreadsheets where nearly 1,000 educators from around the world have added themselves to the database. • Twitter 4 Teachers is a wiki listing educators in two dozen categories, including National Board Certified Teachers, Science Teachers, Math Teachers, Principals, Elementary Teachers, and Music Teachers. • Who Should I Follow gives suggestions for new Twitter friends. This service works best when you are already following several.

30. Anatomy of a Tweet • @ • D or DM • # • Hashtags #TCEA or #FETC or #fetc

31. THINGS I REALLLY need to know about sending a “TWEET” • Public replies begins with the @ symbol • Direct messages are not public • They MUST have a D not a @

32. Two ways to send a private direct message • Go to a user's Twitter page and click message under Actions on the left side of the page. • Another way is to begin your message in the Twitter update box with the letter d or D followed by the username and message

33. One catch when it comes to direct messages. • You can only send direct messages to users that are following you. • For example, I am following Ellen Degeneres but she is not following me. Therefore, she cannot not receive direct messages from me.

34. RT and then an @ symbol • That's called a retweet • username after the @ symbol is the one who originally posted the message. Sample: • RT @WDWFanZone An Extra Special Disney Birthday wdwfanzone.com/2012/09/an-ext… #fb • RT @RRUEduStudies: Leadership 2.0 – Open Course #leadership20 connectedprincipals.com/archives/6359

35. Click Advanced Search • From the search.twitter.com page to fine-tune your search • https://twitter.com/i/#!/search-advanced

37. 1. Search for Yourself: Twitter has an API call limit of 150 calls an hour. Every time your Twitter client searches for replies, DMs, or tweets, it wastes a call. Use a search for your own name instead of a replies column in your Twitter client, thus saving APIs and getting the same result!(The only downside is that people with protected updates won’t show up). 2. Use Friendfeed:Friendfeed is a very good resource for searching for old tweets. Twitter Search only goes back a few weeks, but Friendfeed allows you to find any old tweet. 3. Use Groups: Even when you are following a large number of tweeps, you really pay close attention to only a sum of their tweets. By creating groups in your Twitter client, you have a column with those tweets that really count! 4. Don’t Use & in Your Twitter Profile: For some reason, the “&” symbol doesn’t get along well with Twitter and won’t be displayed properly. 5. 125 is the new 140: Although you can now tweet more than 140 characters, the whole purpose of Twitter is the short messages. Shorten your tweets to 125 (or shorter if you can) to encourage easy retweets and added comments. 6. Search for Yourself: Twitter has an API call limit of 150 calls an hour. 6. Time Matters: Search your subject on Google and click “Realtime” from the left hand column. Take a look at when people discuss your topic most on Twitter. 7. Discover Your Worth: Check out your Twitter score on Twitter Grader to see how you rank amongst other Tweeters.  You can check  your Klout score as well. 8.Find Tweeps Near You with Similar Interests. Take advantage of the Places options in the advanced Twitter search interface to filter tweets to a certain area. 9. Tweet Completely: Not everyone is reading all your tweets in a row. A single tweet can show via RSS, search.twitter.com, in a Google Alert, etc. If your tweet relies on a previous tweet for context, it won’t make sense. 10. Position Your Links: Sometimes it makes sense to not run a link at the end of the tweet. More people may click on it if it’s in the middle or at the beginning- partly because it looks different, so it draws the eye. 10 Twitter Tips & Tricks By Beirut

38. 25 ways to teach with Twitterby Sonja Cole • http://www.techlearning.com/article/46075 • Ask for recommended books, lesson ideas, or teaching tools. • Be sure to thank the people who respond. • Ask for help or advice about a professional question. • Write a book list one tweet at a time, or link to a book list on the web. • Tweet about a useful web resource, a particular blog post, video, website, book, product or service that teachers would find useful. • Provide a daily tip like a word of the day, book of the day, random trivia, useful fact, teacher tip or helpful resource. • Share new studies of interest to other teachers. • Celebrate timely events. • Tweet about your school's website, blog and/or podcast • Link to a book trailer or video booktalk you create • Start a Twitter book club and tweet your reactions to the book as you read. • Invite followers to an event (online or offline).

39. 25 ways to teach with Twitterby Sonja Cole • http://www.techlearning.com/article/46075 • Link to photos of your classroom. • Share teaching humor. • Retweet someone else's post that you found interesting. • Say thanks when someone retweets you or mentions you in their tweets. • On Fridays, recommend other tweeters that your followers should check out. • Answer someone else's general question, and reply to those who ask you a direct question. • Schedule to meet fellow teachers at a conference, or organize a professional tweet-up in your area. • Make a personal connection by sharing your favorite teaching resource, lesson idea, new book, blog post, etc. • Ask others for favorites. • Post requests for people to come and speak at your events. • Find summer work or school employment postings • Ask for something free • Join a Twibe. A twibe allows you to follow a group of like-minded people

40. 39 Cool Twitter Tools • WeFollow - Twitter directory and search. Find Twitter followers • Listorious - Twitter people search and lists directory. • Fllwrs – Keep track of who follows/unfollows you.

41. WeFollow - Twitter directory and search. Find Twitter followers

42. Utilities and Tools • twitcam - Stream live video on Twitter. • Buffer - Automagically shares your articles, pics and more.Easily add great articles, pictures and videos to your Buffer and we automagically share them for you through the day! • TweetBackup – Free backup for your Twitter. • Twilk - Put your Twitter followers on your background. • Flickr my Background – Put your latest Flickr images on your background. • Twileshare - Upload and share files on Twitter. • Twitvid - Easily share videos on Twitter. • Tweetwally – Create a tweet wall to organize and share tweets. • Tweetburner – Tracking the links you share on Twitter.

43. twitcam - Stream live video on Twitter

44. SEARCH TOOLS • Twitter / Search – See what’s happening right now (official). • PostPost – Awesome stuff gets lost on Twitter. Strip-search your timeline. • Snap Bird - Search beyond Twitter’s history. • Cloud.li – Word cloud Twitter search interface. • BackTweets – Search for links on Twitter. • Tweet Scan – Twitter and micro blog search.

45. Twitter / SearchSee what’s happening right now (official).

46. COOL TWITTER VISUALIZATIONS • A World of Tweets - Very cool heatmap of latest worldwide tweets. • Tori’s Eye - Cool origami-looking Twitter visualization. • TweepsKey - A graph that unlocks the power of your tweeps. • Revisit - Real-time visualization of latest 200 tweets around a given topic. • Mentionmapp - A “mind-map” style Twitter visualization. • The View from Above - Flashes of light appear based on geographic tweets.

47. TweepsKey- A graph that unlocks the power of your tweeps.

48. The View from Above- Flashes of light appear based on geographic tweets.

49. When To Send Tweets • Tweriod • favorite in terms of algorithm the app takes into account a great number of different parameters, and calculates a very accurate result. • TweetWhen • Great tool shows you the best times to tweet based on your previous 1,000 tweets. Similar to WhenToTweet, the process is super fast, meaning you will have your results in a few seconds. • TweetReports • Different approach by gathering the tweet statistics from your top 25 influential followers into its “Follower Analysis” feature. The spikes indicate when these users are most active and, therefore, likely to see your tweets. • Additionally, the app