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Who gives a tweet?
Karen Strickland, Senior Lecturer & Senior Teaching Fellow
Office of the Vice Principal (Academic)
@strictlykaren
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What we will cover• Why should you give a tweet about twitter?• How can twitter help you develop your professional
online network?• How can you use twitter in learning and teaching?• Introduction to twitter and twitter apps
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What is twitter?• Social network• Micro blogging platform – 140 characters• Allows a wide range of people connect and network in real
time• Works on a follower principle
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Reproduced with permission from Sarah Stewart: http://www.slideshare.net/sarahs/how-to-use-twitter-for-learning-and-teaching
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Why should you give a tweet about twitter?
• Tweeting links to your blog or research papers increases the rate of download
• More readers = greater potential for impact
• Increase your visibility through networking
London School of Economics and Politics (2012) http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2012/04/19/blog-tweeting-papers-worth-it/
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Reproduced with permission from Sarah Stewart: http://www.slideshare.net/sarahs/how-to-use-twitter-for-learning-and-teaching
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Developing your professional learning network
• Think about your digital identity
• Decide how you want to use twitter & communicate that in your profile
• Link to your own webpage or blog
• http://strictlykaren.wordpress.com• http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/karen-strickla
nd/41/52b/3bb
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Conference participation (backchannel)
• Follow conference hashtag #ISSOTL2012
• Access to conference dialogue even when you can’t attend
• Connect & network in a different way
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Developing your professional learning network
• Find people to follow: do a search of names you think may be on twitter
• Have a look at who like minded people follow and follow them
• Tweet regularly – keep your followers interested
• Use hashtags to connect with others
Some suggestions:PhD tweeps:@EdinburghNapier@strictlykaren @DigitalHigherEd@Smythkrs@Juliafoth@elearningcolin@dsrjarman
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When twitter can go wrong
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Practical issues: Introduction to twitter and twitter apps
• setting up a twitter account– www.twitter.com
• Who to follow• using hashtags• Joining live tweetchats
http://tweetchat.com/
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Further resources• Edinburgh Napier Social Media Guidance http://
staff.napier.ac.uk/services/corporateaffairs/web/Documents/SocialMediaGuidelinesfinal.docx
• Using twitter guide http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/09/29/twitter-guide/
• 100 serious tips on using twitter http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2012/04/23/100-serious-twitter-tips-for-academics-2/#.T5gmUr_j6Fs.delicious
• JISC legal guide http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2012/august/twitter-and-the-law-10-legal-risks-in-tweeting-from-or-to-the-uk/
• JISC e safety http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/Themes/eSafety.aspx• Edinburgh Napier Use of Web2.0 guidance http
://staff.napier.ac.uk/services/secretary/governance/DataProtection/CodeofPractice/Pages/OnlineServices02.aspx