How to use twitter in education

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How to use Twitter in Education Click on the chapters below to jump to different chapters.

Create an account with Twitter – Sign up Build up your timeline – follow people Edit your profile Compose a tweet Change your settings and get help

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Create an account with Twitter – Sign up Search for twitter or Go to www.twitter.com and click on Sign up for twitter

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Provide your college / personal email. Check your inbox for a confirmation email.

Username ideas: team e.g.

LRC personal to you e.g. your name or general e.g. englishsupport

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Check your inbox and click confirm

Build up your timeline – follow people

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Click next to start following people

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Search within categories and find people / companies

When you are ready click follow

Skip steps. You can always come back to them later.

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Edit your profile

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Write a description about you e.g. what are you interested in e.g. educational technology / teaching and learning / raising quality standards… Search other peoples profiles for inspiration

If you say that you work for Barnet Southgate College, then state that “these are my personal views and not those of Barnet and Southgate College”.

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You can always come back to this step to edit your profile by gong to settings > profile

Link to your blog or another website e.g. the college website

If you connect your account with Facebook, twitter will post all your tweets and to your facebook wall as well

Twitter displays the number of tweets, your followers and who is following you.

Public profile – everyone can read your tweets and follow you Private profile Restricted view of your tweets and profile and you have to manually approve each person who wants to follow you

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Your navigation bar Profile information n

Suggestions personalized for you

Live twitter feed

Popular discussions and topics

Me is your profile page

@Connect – add people #Discover – research trends and popular topics

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Search for people and topics here

Compose a tweet

Access your settings

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There are two ways to compose a tweet

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Compose a tweet and check how many characters you have left. Click tweet to share this message

When you compose a tweet the counter changes

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Upload a picture by clicking on the camera icon

Tweets are time stamped by when you tweeted

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This is what your tweet looks like on your profile page

Other things you can do with tweets – embed tweets in an email or to your blog.

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Person who composed the tweet

#hashtag so people can find this tweet in a search

Acknowledge other people Attach a file url / picture

3 Go to someone’s profile and click tweet to and they will get your message

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Change your settings and get help

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Email notifications

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For more help, see iLearn and visit the E-Learning tutorial area Click on Using Social Media for more resources and guidance

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