Twitter

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 * Twitter is a social networking site that allows you to post updates, see the updates of others, and interact with others.**
 * Using Twitter in Education:**

http://edudemic.com/2011/09/twitter-in-education/ http://edudemic.com/2012/04/100-ways-to-use-twitter-in-education-by-degree-of-difficulty/ http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/10/teachers-roadmap-to-use-of-twitter-in.html


 * As a teacher/technology integration coach, here is how I use twitter:**

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 * **follow news agencies to get my news updates**
 * **follow others in education, read their updates, look at the resources they share, bookmark the ones I like in DIIGO and share them with others**
 * **ask questions**
 * **answer questions**
 * **participate in education related chats**
 * **There are organized discussions that occur on twitter daily. The organizer posts questions and other respond and a conversation arises.**
 * **To find a list of education related chats :**http://www.cybraryman.com/chats.html

What is....
DM? Reply Retweet Favorite Hashtag Twitter Chats
 * Direct Message sent to a specific twitter user, not to the whole community.
 * Respond to someone else using the @ symbol and his/her twitter name. This is not private.
 * Sharing and reposting someone else's tweet.
 * Mark favorite tweets in order to revisit them later or bookmark them. The tweet gets a gold star next to it and the tweet shows up in your favorites tab.
 * This symbol, #, the hashtag, categorizes tweets by topic/subject/event. You can search twitter by hashtag.
 * Conversations, often prearranged, that use a hashtag. Quite often these are done in Q/A format.

Want to give Twitter a try? I would be happy to help! ~Lori @lorisheldon on Twitter