Twitter

toc =Twitter is=
 * Web 2.0
 * Free
 * Social networking
 * Sending and receiving
 * Instant messaging
 * Microblogging
 * 140 characters (key strokes)
 * via computers and mobile devices

Why Twitter?

 * Stimulating discussions
 * New resources
 * Ongoing supportive network

Twerminology

 * Tweets - posts, updates
 * Follower - a Twitter user subscribing to your posts
 * Tweeple - Twitter people, members, users
 * Tweeps - followers
 * Tweet-back - referring to a previous conversation in a new Tweet
 * Tweet-up - Tweeple meeting F2F
 * Twitosphere - community of Tweeple
 * Retweet - Tweeting someone's Tweet to your network

Professional Use

 * WikiHow - @http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Twitter-as-a-Professional
 * 5 Ways to Use Twitter for Good - @http://goo.gl/Oagna

=Join Twitter=
 * @http://twitter.com
 * Add your profile name to the wiki and follow those in the workshop
 * Account settings
 * Do not protect your tweets

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Following people

 * Search for people you know - on the Twitter site
 * Follow people your colleagues are following
 * Educators on Twitter - @http://bit.ly/TwitterEducators

Aggregator

 * [|TweetDeck]
 * TweetDeck for Chrome
 * Download Chrome
 * Go to the Chrome Web Store
 * Search for TweetDeck

Following #hashtags

 * #PLN
 * #educ
 * #pegeeks
 * Hashtag search - @http://hashtags.org

Twitter Chats

 * Twitter Chats Schedule - @http://bit.ly/TwitterChatSchedule

=Bonus= Using Twitter with students
 * Twitter for Teachers: @http://twitter4teachers.pbworks.com/w/page/22554534/FrontPage
 * 25 ways to use Twitter in the classroom: @http://goo.gl/HBKqu
 * UT-Dallas Twitter Experiment

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