An Introduction to Twitter in Higher Education June 2017

An Introduction to Twitter in Higher Education

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Who am I?

Alex SpiersLearning Technology Developer

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Overview

What is it?Terminology

How it is being used?Issues

ActivitiesQuestions

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Happy 6th Birthday

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https://clt.vtc.edu.hk/what-happens-online-in-60-seconds/ #LIVUNITEL

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https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/opinion/tell-us-about-your-paper-and-make-it-short-and-tweet

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http://www.healthandcommunications.com/blog/2015/8/31/8utx8sait2y475x5wv11omlk6fsf9p

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Professional

Practice

Technology

Events/

ConferencesHE News

Breaking News

Research

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Tour, terminology & tasks

Ten Days of Twitter was originally developed by created by Helen Webster. The materials are available under a Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA.

1. Set up a profile

2. Following people

3. Sending a tweet

4. @messages

5. Embedding and shortening URLs

6. Retweeting

7. Hashtags

8. Managing people (apps to create lists)

9. Managing information (apps to curate links)

Setting up an account

Decisions you have to make

• Public or Private

• DM or Tagging from others

• Notifications

• Video autoplay (mobile)

Settings

Activity

• Search for content

#ff Follow FridayFollowing & Followers

Following & FollowersFollowing is trial and error – filter your followers (or interests) regularly

Activity

• Search for content

Sending @ messagesSend a Tweet

Tweet

Activity

• Search for content

The @ sign is used to call out usernames in Tweets, like this:

@

Activity

• Search for content

Tweeting Links

Tweeting URLs

A URL of any length will be altered to 23 characters, even if the link itself is less than 23 characters long. Your character count will reflect this.

• Tinyurl.com

• Goo.gl Owned by Google this will also produce a QR code for your link and if you have a Google+ account, you can track statistics on click-through. This is useful if you’re evaluating publicity strategies for a new web resource or event.

• events.

• Bit.ly You can also track click-throughs with this site.

Activity

• Search for content

RetweetsRT (retweet)

Re-sharing or giving credit to someone else’s tweet. Quote tweet allows you to share another tweet and add comment about it.

RT (retweet)

Activity

• Search for content

#Hashtags# hash tag (search term)

# hash tag (search term)

Activity

• Search for content

Managing people in TwitterManaging People

BlockYou can Block anyone you don’t want to be following you. Blocking prevents a user from @ message, DM or adding you to a list. It

ListsYou can create a public or private list of people and accounts you are interested in. This helps you filter information.

Activity

• Search for content

Managing information in Twitter

• Favourites

• Search

• Trending

• Extras - flipboard

Managing information

Favourites/Likes

Adding a favourite tweet is similar to ‘like’ in Facebook and can be used to bookmark a tweet.

Polls & Gifs

Apps

Tweetdeck

Nuzzle

Activity

• Search for content

VITAL (Blackboard)

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https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/intranet/marketing-and-communications/pr-media-relations/social-media/

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Social Media for Academic Staff

• Introduction to Twitter in Higher Education

• Getting more out of Twitter: Tools, tips & tricks

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