Tracking Tweets with Twitter
Primary Presenter: Susie Lenny
Co-Presenters: Jana Cole and Wendy Watson
Organization: University of Colorado Denver
Role: Graduate Student
Track: Demo with some hands-on
Level: For Mere Mortals
Abstract: Participants will learn how to use Twitter as an instructional application. Participants need a Twitter account, phone with texting, or laptop with internet for this session’s activities. Use of backchannels and 3 apps; TweetDeck, Paper.li, and Twitpic will be covered. Learn why Twitter was voted #1 learning app in 2011!
Bio: Susie Lenny is a licensed Elementary Education Teacher with a Linguistically Diverse Endorsement. She is pursuing her Master's degree at CU Denver in Information Learning Technology eLearning. Susie is passionate about technology in education and has recently presented a Webinar on Twitter to her academic colleagues. The Twitter Webinar has led her to conduct further research on Twitter and its application in the classroom and in business. The Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies has named Twitter as the number one learning tool for 2011. Twitter is a timely topic for the COLTT conference.
Description: Microblogging is the act of posting very short (140 characters including spaces) messages on the internet. In the past five years microblogs have grown in popularity with a myriad of apps being developed that further expand their functionality for social networking, marketing, and education. Twitter is the largest of the microblogging services with almost half a billion registered profiles, over 100 million of which are in the United States. Twitter users send over 125 million microblogs (Tweets) every day!
A brief overview of Twitter will be provided that covers what it is and key features that will be used during the session. Orientation will include three instructional applications and the apps used to support them while displaying a backchannel for participant interaction during the presentation. The Twitter backchannel will create a real time conversation alongside the live spoken remarks. This can include activities such as fact checking and comments about the presentation topic. The majority of this session will be spent on experiential activities using three apps:
1) Tweet Deck (PC & Mac) allows you to manage Twitter feeds, review multiple Twitter feed channels and accounts side by side, schedule future Tweets, monitor and manage your tweeting, and stay up-to-date.
2) TwitPic allows sharing of photos and videos as they happen. Photos and videos are posted on the site as Tweets from a computer or mobile phone.
3) Paper.li creates an online newsletter by pulling web content from Tweets. This app automatically monitors information based on your search criteria and updates daily or weekly.
Participants will work with the apps during this session. Bring your own laptop! Additional resources on Twitter and instructional applications for Twitter are available at http://trackingtweetswithtwitter.wordpress.com/.
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