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Using Twitter Among Students

Name: Sara IbrahimID: 200910660

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Content

• General Information• Get Started With Twitter• Advantages of Twitter• Using Twitter Effectively• Students and Twitter• Exercise

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General Information

• Definition

• Founders

• Features

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Definition

• Twitter is an online service and social networking that enables you to post updates with other “tweeps” by answering a single question “What’s happening?”

• Twitter limits tweets, so you only receive and post tweets up to 140 characters.

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Founder

• Jack Dorsey • @jack• “Executive Chairman of Twitter, CEO of

Square, a founder of both.”

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Features

• Who to follow:o View Suggestions: allow you to follow “tweeps” depending on

who you follow and other variableso Browse Interests: allow you to follow “tweeps” based on over

20 categorieso Find your friends: allow you to find “tweeps” from your email

account• Searches: search for topics and keywords and save your

search• Advertising: you need to have an idea about promoted

trends, promoted tweets and promoted accounts

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Get Started With Twitter

• Create a twitter account

• Twitter terminology

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Create a twitter account

• Step 1: go to http://twitter.com/• Step 2: join twitter by typing your full name, email and

password in the sign up box• Step 3: choose a username (suggestions available) then

click on “Create my account”• Step 4: you can follow some stages to help you start

with twitter or you can skip them• Step 5: confirm your email address to access all of

twitter’s features Watch how to create a

twitter account

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Twitter Terminology• Follow: when you follow an account, all their tweets will appear in

your timeline• Unfollow: to stop seeing someone’s tweets in your timeline • Retweet (RT): to share someone’s tweets with your followers• Block: use it when you find a spammer in your followers list to remove

it from your list• Reply: to respond to someone’s tweet• Mentions: click on @mentions to check when someone has mentioned

you• @: use it if you want to mention another tweep; it is also the first part

of a username (ex. @Sara_Albastaki)• #: use it to categorize tweets, trending topics (TT) are usually

combined with # • Direct Message (DM): it is private massages you want to send to other

tweeps

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Advantages of Twitter

• Communication tool

• Share and receive information

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Communication Tool

• Twitter made the world smallero Communicate with different people around

the worldEx. we can have friend from different countries

o Ask about them and talk about our interests

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Share and Receive Information

• We can know what is happening in the worldo Politicso Economicso Sports o Musico Celebrities• Share those information

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Using Twitter Effectively

• Tweeting style

• Tag your tweet

• Use a twitter organizer

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Tweeting Style

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Tag Your Tweet• Make your tweets visible to other tweeps• Give your tweets more exposure• Create discussions• # allows you to search the tweets containing the

hashtag • Get into conversations with other tweeps about a

specific topic• It helps connect with a particular group of people

or with people interested in the same things you are (ex. #ZU)

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Use a Twitter Organizer

Watch how TweetDeck

works…

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Twitter and Students

• Organize events• Connection between students & teachers• Class discussion• Share info about a topic• Research tool

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Organize Events

• Important announcements• Lectures• Trips• Meetings time and date

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Connection Between Students & Teachers

• Students can ask about each other, know what is happening in their school or university

• Teachers can post test dates to inform students

• Teachers can comment about class discussion or what lessons have been taken in class to update students

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Class Discussion

• Share opinions, ask questions and discuss different answersIt helps increase the students’ knowledgeIt encourages students who don’t participate to

be engaged in class discussions

• It doesn’t mean we have to replace the regular formats, twitter is used to enhance class discussion process

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Share Info about a Topic

• Students can share outside information about a topic taken in class It helps widen their knowledgeIt encourages critical thinkingIt encourages students to be more engaged in

class

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Research Tool

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Exercise

• Go to

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Bibliography• Bart, M. (2009, June 17). Using Twitter to Facilitate Classroom Discussions. Retrieved November 15,

2011, from Faculty Focus: http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/effective-teaching-strategies/using-twitter-to-facilitate-classroom-discussions/

• Miller, S. M. (2010). Enhance Your Twitter Experience. ERIC , 4.• Mollett, A., Moran, D., & Dunleavy, P. (2011, September). A Guide to Using Twitter in University

Research,Teaching, and Impact Activities. Retrieved October 21, 2011, from LSE: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/09/29/twitter-guide/

• Sherman, A. (2011, February 2). 10 Twitter Features You Might Be Missing. Retrieved October 23, 2011, from Gigaom: http://gigaom.com/collaboration/10-twitter-features-you-might-be-missing/

• Twitter. (2009, March 19). Retrieved October 24, 2011, from Techterms: http://www.techterms.com/definition/twitter

• Twitter For Students. (n.d.). Retrieved October 22, 2011, from Twitter Tips Central: http://www.twittertipscentral.com/miscellaneous/twitter-for-students/

• Using Twitter to Break Down Classroom Isolation. (2009, March 30). Retrieved October 22, 2011, from Teachers Tips: http://david-r-wetzel.suite101.com/using-twitter-to-break-down-classroom-isolation-a106070

• Watters, A. (2011, March 21). 5 Ways Twitter Has Changed Education. Retrieved October 21, 2011, from Mind Shift: http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/03/5-ways-twitter-has-changed-education/


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