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Why Twitter?
A Presentation for Teacher LibrariansBy Beth Redford @bethredford
Dynamic Landscapes ConferenceMay 11, 2012
Jennifer Malphy@jmalphy
I'm the Library Media Specialist and District Technology Coordinator for Kickapoo Area Schools in Viola, WI. I'm a wife and mother to two little boys.
Planning for Summer Checkouts pic.twitter.com
**reconstructed Tweet – couldn’t find the original! – BRphoto courtesy of Jennifer Malphy
Amy works in Virginia
Robin works in Ohio
Kim works in Massachusetts
Map image by user:Theshibboleth on Wikipedia.com, retrieved 5/7/2012Used under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
Twitter is:
A microblogging service
The world’s biggest, most up to date annotated bibliography!
Twitter is the service
Tweet is a noun…and a verb
Username ex. @bethredford
Vocabulary
mobile.twitter.com/signup
Signing Up
Twitter.com
Username – helpful if it relates to your real name, also if it’s short
Put in a (real) picture and description when you get a chance
“Search” box
@bethredford
@joycevalenza @sducharme@jenniferlagarde @MrSchuReads@buffyjhamilton @shannonmmiller@cybraryman1 @AuntyTech @PWKidsBookshelf @imcguy@classicsixbooks @SLJournal@jmalphy @librarian_tiff@aasl @ala_techsource@gwynethjones
Hashtags and Chats
# makes it searchable #tlchat, #VSLA – all day
http://cybraryman.com/chats.html
#edchat - Tuesdays noon and 7 pm
Favorites
Use them to collect resources
Can automatically save to Diigo
Connections
For collaborative projects
Post requests to # chats
Other Uses
school or library Twitter accounts @resvt
Classroom Twitter accounts @sterlingmath
Inspiration!
Twitter bird icon from twitter.comUsed in accordance with Twitter’s
Guidelines for Use of the Twitter Trademark
