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Free Professional Development January 20 th Principals Coucnil SWPRSC Sublette, KS Presented by Jason Johnson Principal Meade ES/JH Twitter …. Unleash the Power

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Free Professional Development

January 20th

Principals CoucnilSWPRSC

Sublette, KSPresented by Jason Johnson

Principal Meade ES/JH

Twitter….

Unleash the Power

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Free Professional Development

Twitter…

What is Twitter?

Twitter=“A Short Burst of inconsequential information”

Just because Lebron tweets inconsequential information doesn’t mean the education community does!!

The Essential Twitter Dictionary

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Free Professional Development

Twitter…

Why Twitter?

Immense amount of Web 2.0 tools available, but untapped!

Networking at conferences face to face? How much information do you get?

Tom Whitby

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Free Professional Development

Twitter…

How to Twitter?

Where do I get started?

I don’t want to embarrass myself?

I don’t have time to consume all that information!!

Wiki Page of Teachers on Twitter

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Twitter…

What Can I Use?

Applications for Twitter are numerous…

Smartphone compatibility!!!

Twitter home page www.twitter.com

Recommendation—Tweetdeck--Works on desktop, phone, ipad

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Twitter…

Hashtags?

What the heck are hashtags?

Why do I need to worry about them?

Searching?

Popular hashtags for educators—#edchat, #elemchat, #midleved, #edtech

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Free Professional Development

Twitter…

How do I use it?

Resource development for staff

Become Lifelong-Learner as a leader

Not comfortable with Elementary—Don’t always trust that Best Practices are being used in 21st Century Learning

Feed the Hungry—Fatten the Full

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Twitter….

Take a Live Look?

#edchat Twitter Stream

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Free Professional Development

Twitter…

Links

Twitter as PD Article-- http://janeknight.typepad.com/socialmedia/2010/11/twitter-as-.html

Twitter Dictionary-- http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/the-essential-twitter-dictionary_b1205

Wiki Page for Teachers-- http://twitter4teachers.pbworks.com/w/page/22554534/FrontPage

Tom Whitby YouTube-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7MXrAcpeQY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

PLN Website-- http://edupln.com/