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Twitter is one of the easiest ways to connect with colleagues and share ideas. If your friends and family are using it, it's also a handy way to keep up with their news. Twitter sounds odd at first, but once you’ve developed a good network, you'll likely find it very useful. It’s a great way to broadcast a question to a large group of people all at once, share your experiences with others and connect with other professionals.
Twitter forces you to be brief in your notes - you only get 140 characters. These messages, known as tweets, appear in a steady stream of messages on the screen. You see messages of the people you are following. The people following you see your messages. You can also send private messages to people through the Direct Message feature. Longer discussions can be followed up via email.
The "backchannel" refers to people using twitter during presentations to share what they're learning and comment on what is being presented. Some classrooms are using twitter and other tools to share ideas and questions during a class. Some librarians are being invited to be part of the backchannel during classes to answer questions and direct students to good resources.
Meeting tools such as CoverItLive and TodaysMeet are set up to combine tweets about a meeting or class and messages posted directly to the 'room' by participants who aren't on twitter. An example of CoverItLive being used to follow a conference and being replayed later. And another CoverItLive example.
There's more on Backchannels in a later section of the workshop.
Uses in Schools
Sharing ideas in a classroom.
Students forming their own learning community.
Students connecting with experts and gathering information.
Schools sharing information with parents and community. Do a twitter search on high school to find many examples.
Edmodo.com is an alternative twitter-like tool that is designed for use by educators.
Activity
Just join twitter!
Go to twitter.com and click on the big Sign Up Now button
Asks for: name, username, password and email address. You don't need to give them your full name if you don't want to.
You can add more information (or not!) to your Profile through the SETTINGS option after you login.
If you want your tweets to be private (only available to followers you approve), go to SETTINGS --> ACCOUNT.
Twitter is a very lonely place if you don't follow people! Share your twitter name with the class. And use the FIND PEOPLE option to search for other people by name, organization, email.
Tweet something! If you write tweets about the class this weekend, put this special tag in each post #slstechcamp. This is called a 'hashtag' and helps people follow a specific topic.
Some folks to follow (in absolutely no particular order!)
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