Twitter for Boone Educators
Plug In To Your Professional Learning Network
Anatomy of a Tweet
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Get Active on Twitter
- Get on Twitter: set up your account
- Explore: Home/Feed, Moments, Notifications, and Messages etc. Lurk a little, read, click on hashtags, @, and links
- Follow: tweeters based on your interests, colleagues, schools, business & industry connected to your content and authors.
- Hashtags: a way to categorize content
- Share: retweet or post
- Participate: Chats, conversations, marketing, etc.
Twitter Chats Educators Should Check Out
#boonechat: Select Thursdays at 7:30pm Eastern Time
#masterychat: Thursdays at 8pm Eastern Time
#kidsdeserveit: Wednesdays at 9pm Eastern Time inspired by @awelcome and @techninjatodd's book Kids Deserve It.
#tlap: Mondays 9 pm ET, #tlap was inspired by the fabulous book "Teach Like a Pirate" by Dave Burgess (@burgessdave)
#kytechchat: Tuesdays at 9pm Eastern Time (#KyGoDigital)
#kyedchat: Thursdays from 8-9pm Eastern Time
#admin2b: Mondays at 8pm Eastern Time. Created by Geniene Delahunty.
#kyadmin: First Monday at 7pm Eastern Time. Created by Erika Bowles
#edgier: Wednesdays at 9pm Eastern Time. Created by Jim Detwiler.
#satchat: Saturday mornings from 7:30 to 8:30 am Eastern Time
#edchat: Tuesdays from 12 to 1 and 7 to 8 pm Eastern Time
#edtechchat: Mondays from 8 to 9 pm Eastern Time
#STEMchat: Tuesdays from 9 to 10 pm Eastern Time
#flipclass: Monday nights from 8 to 9 pm
#ptchat: Wednesday nights at 9 pm ET
#kinderchat: Mondays at 3:30 pm and 9 pm ET
#digcit: The second and fourth Wednesdays of the month from 7 to 8 pm ET
#inquirychat: Every other Thursday 6-7 pm PST
Creating a Habit
Set a goal to engage with Twitter daily!
For one week do at least 5 of these things every day:
· Follow ten new people
· Like and retweet 5 tweets
· Tweet using an existing hashtag
· Pose a question to your followers
· Read through a chat
· Answer a question in a chat
· Post an image with a tweet
· Tweet your own hashtag
· Tweet @ someone or send a DM
Building your PLN on Twitter
- Profile should clearly ID who are you professionally
- Stay active in your network
- Curate your network
- Keep the mindset of a continuous learner
- Have fun!