Twitter for Teachers
New to Twitter / Beginners
Let's Get Started
Steps to Getting Your Twitter Account:
1. Go to Twitter.com
2. Complete the New To Twitter? box.
3. The next window lets you create your Twitter Handle (screen name). CHOOSE WISELY!
4. UNCHECK the two boxes and click CREATE MY ACCOUNT.
5. The next window explains what a tweet is...no more than 140 characters and that includes any links contained within the tweet. Be succinct!
6. The next window has you build your timeline. That simply means you need to follow people so you will have tweets to read on your home feed or timeline. Follow these people:
7. That will be more than enough to get you started; click NEXT. You will have time to add to your Following list.
8. Next it will want you to try 5 more.
9. Yes, they want you to add 5 more! Add these:
10. Finally, let's upload an image and create your bio...describe who you are, what you're about, then click DONE!
Get Rid of the Egg
How to Create a Tweet
- Click on the Compose button in the top right hand corner (it looks like a quill).
- Create a short, 140 characters or less, message.
- If the tweet is going to someone, include their handle (@cvcalbear).
- Remember if you include a link to a resource, it is counted in your 140 character limit.
- To Retweet something that has come through your feed, just click the Retweet button.
- If you want to reply to a tweet, just click the reply. Whoever you are replying to will automatically come up in the new tweet. If this is part of a twitter chat, remember to include the hashtag again!
Follow our #IUSDCUE16 Hashtag
Bookmark this website:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/iusdcue16
This allows you to easily see everything your IUSD colleagues are tweeting about (as long as they include the #IUSDCUE16 hashtag). Start off yourself with a simple "Hello! #IUSDCUE16"
The conversation you see might be a great new resource, someone who has had success (or failure) implementing, or a meeting place during the session breaks to discuss.
Keep refreshing, as people are constantly tweeting throughout!
What's a Twitter Chat?
- A Twitter Chat is an online conversation using Twitter as a means for facilitation. It is moderated by someone who poses questions for discussion.
- The discussion thread is filtered through the use of a hashtag. Typically the chats begin with everyone introducing themselves.
- Those participating, respond to the questions posed by the moderator that begin with Q1, Q2, Q3 and so forth.
- Respondents add A1, A2, A3 to the beginning of their responses to correlate with the questions they are answering.
- Clear as mud? If nervous, just lurk...watch how the flow goes.
- If you are not following everyone in the chat and you are using Twitter in lieu of a 3rd party app that allows for following multiple streams of posts, go to the top of the stream and click, ALL or ALL TWEETS. This will allow you to see all of the tweets coming through the stream.