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How to use Twitter in Education
Click on the chapters below to jump to different chapters.
Create an account with Twitter – Sign up
Build up your timeline – follow people
Edit your profile
Compose a tweet
Change your settings and get help
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Create an account with Twitter – Sign up
Search for twitter or Go to www.twitter.com and click on Sign up for twitter
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Provide your college / personal email. Check your inbox for a confirmation email.
Username ideas: team e.g. LRC personal to you e.g. your name or general e.g. englishsupport
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Build up your timeline – follow people
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Check your inbox and click confirm
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Click next to start following
people
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When you are ready click
follow
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Search within categories and find people /
companies
Skip steps. You can always
come back to them later.
When you are ready click
follow
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Edit your profile
If you say that you work for Barnet Southgate College, then state that “these are my personal views and not those of Barnet and Southgate College”.
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Write a description about you e.g. what are you interested in e.g. educational technology / teaching and learning / raising quality standards… Search other peoples profiles for inspiration
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You can always come back to this step to edit your profile by gong to settings > profile
If you connect your account with Facebook, twitter will post all your tweets and to your facebook wall as well
Link to your blog or another website e.g. the college website
Twitter displays the number of tweets, your followers and who is following you. Public profile – everyone can read your tweets and follow you Private profile Restricted view of your tweets and profile and you have to manually approve each person who wants to follow you
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@Connect – add people #Discover – research trends and popular topics
Me is your profile page
Access your settings
Search for people and topics here
Compose a tweet
Live twitter feed
Profile informationn
Suggestions personalized for you
Popular discussions and topics
Your navigation bar
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Compose a tweet
There are two ways to compose a tweet
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Upload a picture by clicking on the camera icon
When you compose a tweet the counter changes
Tweets are time stamped by when you tweeted
Compose a tweet and check how many characters you have left. Click tweet to share this message
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Other things you can do with tweets – embed tweets in an email or to your blog.
This is what your tweet looks like on your profile page
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Go to someone’s profile and click tweet to and they will get your message
Attach a file url / picture
Person who composed the tweet
#hashtag so people can find this tweet in a search
Acknowledge other people
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Change your settings and get help
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Email notifications
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For more help, see iLearn and visit the E-Learning tutorial area Click on Using Social Media for more resources and guidance
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