home

=Welcome to the Teacher Twitter Resource Wiki=

This Wiki is for you to find everything you will need as an educator to get started using Twitter to build you Personal Learning Network (PLN) and more! The home page is organized into resources for educators, videos, presentations, hashtags, and some suggestions on who to follow. Please feel free to not only use this Wiki as a resource, but to add to it as well.

**Definition -** Twitter is an social network that enables its users to send and read text-based posts or "tweets" of up to 140 characters.
=Contents= Twitter Resources Video Presentations Hashtags Who to follow

=Twitter Resources=

[|Why Twitter is so Powerful] Great, short blog post explaining just that, the power of Twitter

[|50 Terrific Twitter Resources for Educators] These tutorials will help you set up your account, introduce you to the basics about Twitter, and more.

[|An Educators Guide to Twitter] A live binder full of excellent resources for educators using Twitter created by Steven Anderson @web20classroom

[|The Ultimate Twitter Guidebook for Teachers] Resource Jackpot that includes anything you want to know about Twitter as Teacher.

[|How Twitter Will Change the Way we Live] An excellent Time Magazine article that describes the power of Twitter.

[|10 Ways Twitter Makes You a Better Writer] An excellent Blog post on how Twitter can make you a better writer.

[|The Twitter Handbook for Teachers] Great document that explains Twitter and how to get started.

[|Twitter for Professional Development] Great blog post describing how twitter can be used for professional development.

=Video= media type="custom" key="10924116" This video explains what Twitter is.

media type="custom" key="10923718"

This video describes how to use Tweetdeck to organize your Twitter information

Click [|here] for 8 Videos for Teachers to help get them started using twitter

=Presentations= media type="custom" key="10924112" Excellent presentation that walks you through what Twitter is, how it works, and how you can use it for PD

=Hashtags=  Hashtags are used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet. Here are some to get you started, but check out the lists on the websites below too.


 * 1) edtech - Educational Technology
 * 2) 1to1 - One to One Laptops/Devices
 * 3) flipclass - Flipped Classrooms
 * 4) edadmin - School Administrators
 * 5) cpchat - Connected Principals

[|Educational Hashtags] Cybraryman's collection of Educational Hashtags

[|Popular Educational Hashtags] From Alan November

[|Great List of Hashtags for Educators] From Karlana's World

[|Literacy Languages and Leadership Hashtags] From Dr. Sarah Elaine Eaton

[|Top Ten Twitter Hashtags for Educators] From I Heart Edtech

=Who to Follow= These are some of my favorite edtechies. Choose who you want to follow by clicking on a users profile and reading about them. See who they are following. Check out their Blog to learn more about them.

[|@missnoor28] [|@shannonmmiller] [|@timbuckteeth] [|@shareski] [|@kylepace] [|@ShellTerrell] [|@gcouros] [|@thenerdyteacher] [|@plugusin] [|@stumpteacher] [|@web20classroom] [|@BethStill] [|@courosa]

Administrators
[|@gcouros] [|@bhprincipal] [|@shannoninattawa] [|@NHMS_Principal] [|@patrickmlarkin] [|@NMHS_Principal]

media type="custom" key="10940570" align="left"

Twitschervogel01 (Twitter Bird used on the left) was created by [|Zapyon] and can be downloaded