Who gives a tweet?

Karen Strickland, Senior Lecturer & Senior Teaching Fellow

Office of the Vice Principal (Academic)

@strictlykaren

What we will cover• Why should you give a tweet about twitter?• How can twitter help you develop your professional

online network?• How can you use twitter in learning and teaching?• Introduction to twitter and twitter apps

What is twitter?• Social network• Micro blogging platform – 140 characters• Allows a wide range of people connect and network in real

time• Works on a follower principle

Reproduced with permission from Sarah Stewart: http://www.slideshare.net/sarahs/how-to-use-twitter-for-learning-and-teaching

Why should you give a tweet about twitter?

• Tweeting links to your blog or research papers increases the rate of download

• More readers = greater potential for impact

• Increase your visibility through networking

London School of Economics and Politics (2012) http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2012/04/19/blog-tweeting-papers-worth-it/

Reproduced with permission from Sarah Stewart: http://www.slideshare.net/sarahs/how-to-use-twitter-for-learning-and-teaching

Developing your professional learning network

• Think about your digital identity

• Decide how you want to use twitter & communicate that in your profile

• Link to your own webpage or blog

• http://strictlykaren.wordpress.com• http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/karen-strickla

nd/41/52b/3bb

Conference participation (backchannel)

• Follow conference hashtag #ISSOTL2012

• Access to conference dialogue even when you can’t attend

• Connect & network in a different way

Developing your professional learning network

• Find people to follow: do a search of names you think may be on twitter

• Have a look at who like minded people follow and follow them

• Tweet regularly – keep your followers interested

• Use hashtags to connect with others

Some suggestions:PhD tweeps:@EdinburghNapier@strictlykaren @DigitalHigherEd@Smythkrs@Juliafoth@elearningcolin@dsrjarman

When twitter can go wrong

Practical issues: Introduction to twitter and twitter apps

• setting up a twitter account– www.twitter.com

• Who to follow• using hashtags• Joining live tweetchats

http://tweetchat.com/

Further resources• Edinburgh Napier Social Media Guidance http://

staff.napier.ac.uk/services/corporateaffairs/web/Documents/SocialMediaGuidelinesfinal.docx

• Using twitter guide http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/09/29/twitter-guide/

• 100 serious tips on using twitter http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2012/04/23/100-serious-twitter-tips-for-academics-2/#.T5gmUr_j6Fs.delicious

• JISC legal guide http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2012/august/twitter-and-the-law-10-legal-risks-in-tweeting-from-or-to-the-uk/

• JISC e safety http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/Themes/eSafety.aspx• Edinburgh Napier Use of Web2.0 guidance http

://staff.napier.ac.uk/services/secretary/governance/DataProtection/CodeofPractice/Pages/OnlineServices02.aspx