3. I use Twitter I have a Twitter
often and find account but
it a very useful don’t use it
tool much
4. I use Twitter I have a Twitter
often and find account but
it a very useful don’t use it
tool much
I don’t
currently use
Twitter but
open to learn
5. I use Twitter I have a Twitter
often and find account but
it a very useful don’t use it
tool much
I don’t Twitter is a
currently use waste of time,
Twitter but other sessions
open to learn were full
6. Twitter is about more than just what you ate for breakfast…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/62274271@N00/3203363010
7. American History Teacher
South Valley Jr. High School
Liberty, Missouri
Faculty – Park University
College of Education
“Technology for the Classroom”
Currently writing dissertation
Doctor of Education
Walden University
10. What is social media?
Forms of electronic communication (as web
sites for social networking and
microblogging) through which users create
online communities to share information,
ideas, personal messages and other content
(as videos)
- Merriam Webster, 2011
11. power of social media is that it
is a two way street
http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/6677357571
consumer producer
12. social media in the news
Netflix Backlash
http://www.flickr.com/photos/87397046@N00/6253594281
Arab Spring
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27519540@N04/2655128664
13. Twitter
social networking site which allows
users to share messages, limited to
140 characters at a time
Launched in July of 2006, named
after the sound a bird makes chirping
14. 200 million registered users
350 million tweets a day
100 million active users each
month
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/09/08/twitter-has-100-million-users/
15. Great statistics but can this help me
as a classroom teacher?
YES
http://www.flickr.com/photos/76994867@N00/4267034867
34. So, how do you keep up with all
these tweets?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eflon/5079163335/
35. The river will flow, with or without
you watching it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbh/4809673039/
36. Need a way to “trap” the information
that is important to you.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/archer10/6019820676/
37. hashtags
allows you to find specific themes
or topics, people include hashtags
within their tweets
#royals
#historyteacher
#election2012
38. You can check out tweets from this
conference by checking hashtag:
#mosocialstudies2012
and follow MCSS:
@mosocialstudies
39.
40. chats
a scheduled time at which Twitter
followers discuss a common theme
and use a common hashtag
can participate live or check in later
with the archive
41. anyone can follow the chat
conversation if they do a search for
the same hashtag
#sschat
#sschat (social studies chat) takes
place each Monday between 6:00
PM and 7:00 PM Central Time
42.
43. chats are archived
so one can
participate live
(synchronous
learning)
or view the archive
when they can
(asynchronous
learning)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/carbonnyc/64581364/in/faves-speakingofhistory/
44.
45. archive of January 9, 2012 social studies chat
current events in social studies
46.
47. once you have a Twitter account you
can use other applications to
customize the information and
organize it how you want
