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50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Education by Blog By Carol

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using Twitter Search to listen for your name, the name of your school/college/poly/uni, and words that relate to your space

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Build an account and immediate start using Twitter Search to listen for your name, the name of your school/college/poly/uni, and words that relate to your space. (Listening always comes first.)

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talk to other people about their interests

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Build an account

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Don’t just tweet about yourself, talk to other people about their interests, too.

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Point out interesting things happening in your classroom

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Share links to neat things in your institution

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Add a picture of yourself

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Share links to neat things in your institution and/or community.

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talk to other people about their interests

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Be wary of always promoting your stuff. Your fans (aka mother) will love it.

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But hopefully you are reaching out to others as well.

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Point out interesting things happening in your classroom

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Promote your students’ stories

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Promote your students’ stories, but be careful to maintain anonymity, particularly with kids.

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Share links

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Promote your students’
stories , but be careful to maintain anonymity , particularly with kids

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stories , but be careful to maintain anonymity

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Promote your students’ stories

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Be human

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  • Be human .
  • Talk about non-education stuff too

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    “What has your attention?”

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    What has your attention?”

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    When promoting a blog post, ask a question or explain what’s coming next, instead of just dumping a link.

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    When promoting a blog post, ask a question or explain what’s coming next, instead of just dumping a link.

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  • Ask questions. Twitter is GREAT for getting opinions

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    Ask questions

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    Ask questions. Twitter is GREAT for getting opinions.

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    Tweet about other people’s stuff. Make you human 

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  • Tweet about other people’s stuff. Make you human 

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    When you DO talk about your stuff, make it useful.

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    Don’t toot your own horn too much. 

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    You don’t have to reply to every @ tweet directed to you (try to reply to some, but don’t feel guilty).

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    Use direct messages for 1-to-1 conversations if you feel there’s no value to Twitter at large to hear the conversation.

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    Use services like Twitter Search to make sure you see if someone’s talking about you. Try to participate where it makes sense.

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    If you tweet all day you will not be popular

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    Learn quickly to use the URL shortening tools like TinyURL and all the variants. It helps tidy up your tweets.

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    Commenting on others’ tweets, and retweeting what others have posted is a great way to build community.

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    helps one organize great, instant meetups (tweetups).

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    works swell as an opinion poll

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    direct student’s attention to good things

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    instant “backchannel.”

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    breaks news faster

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    presence

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    great minds together, and gives everyone daily opportunities to learn

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    critics a forum

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    staff development

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    augment parent feedback

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