May 18 2009
The Best Resources For Beginning To Learn What Twitter Is All About
As regular readers know, I recently joined Twitter and have had a good experience with it, though I’m skeptical that it will attract a following among teachers beyond those particularly interested in educational technology (see My Verdict On Twitter).
In that previous post, I shared some sites that I found particularly helpful to me as I began to “tweet.” I thought others new to Twitter might find it useful for me to slightly enlarge that list, and so another “The Best…” list is born.
The title of each resource is pretty self-explanatory, so I’m just going to list them.
Here are my choices for The Best Resources For Beginning To Learn What Twitter Is All About (Except for the first one, they’re not listed in any particular order of preference):
Start off with What Is Twitter? by Sue Waters
Twitter Handbook For Teachers (thanks to Richard Byrne for the tip)
The Top 7 Mistakes New Twitter Users Make
Seven Ways To Find Teachers On Twitter
A Quick Introduction To Twitter
How Not To Build Your Twitter Community
The 10 Users You’ll Meet On Twitter
The Top 10 Reasons I Will Not Follow You In Return On Twitter
What Is This Twitter Thing, And Why Should I Care?
Nick Peachey writes about Building Your Twitter Network, with a focus on ELT/ESL teachers.
100 Tips To Be A Smarter, Better Twitterer (thanks to Diana Dell for the tip)
All You Need To Know To Twitter from the NY Times.
The Top 7 Twitter Tutorials On YouTube
TIME Magazine has published an article titled How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live. That might be a bit of an exaggeration, but it is an interesting article.
Everything I Need to Know About Twitter I Learned in J School is a useful post from Mashable.
Top … ELT People To Follow On Twitter
Mashable has just written an excellent post titled Twitter for Beginners: 5 Steps for Better Tweeting.
Twitter for teachers – why you should start tweeting!
Internet: Twitter, communicating in the modern age is an interactive from Agence France Presse about…twitter.
Shelly Terrell has created three great lists of educators to follow on Twitter. One is of people who help others with questions, another shares ESL/EFL teachers, and the third focuses on people who tweet about edtech resources.
Not only did she make these lists, but she created them using nifty web tools that let you easily & quickly “follow” them!
Suggestions and feedback, as always, are welcome.
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I’m also on Twitter and have found it a really useful way to build networks of people who are interested in the same things, thereby developing your own knowledge of your subject. I was particularly pleased to get a RT from you Larry, so thanks for that
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Good resources. Here’s a shameless plug for my own:
“What is this Twitter thing and why should I care?”
http://www.tipsbytony.com/2009/05/what-is-this-twitter-thing-and-why-should-i-care/
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Thanks for the great resources! I will be sharing your blog with my Master’s class. I’m trying to get the other teachers to see the value in Twitter as a collaboration tool for all teachers.
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Hi Larry
Thanks for putting up the ‘Twitter Handbook for Teachers’ on your list. As someone using your ‘lists’ quite a bit, it’s a thrill to be on one
I noted the ‘acknowledgment’ as well (Sue Waters spoke to me about that one, she got a heap of mail and kept deflecting to me).
You may wish to correct the link here to http://human.edublogs.org/2009/04/08/the-last-letter-in-kiss/ That’s the post that has the ‘Handbook’ in it (and within it the Why Twitter? slideshow as well).
I have noticed from reading your background and interest that we share quite a few common interests (not just ed-tech but migrant, ESL students – my Masters thesis was on the negotiation of their identity).
Thanks for all your hard work, I sincerely hope we bump into each other one day too (I’ll just keep nagging Sue for that).
Tomaz
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Thanks for including me in your list, much appreciated.
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Dear Larry,
Thanks for sharing great resources with us. I’m glad that you included my article as well:-))
All the best,
Burcu
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[...] Best Resources for Learning About Twitter by Larry Ferlazzo [...]
Thanks for the post. I’ve found Twitter to be a wonderful resource for lots of reasons. Most importantly, Twitter has connected me with people passionate about integrating technology in exciting and meaningful ways. The learning professionals I’ve come into contact with, particularly you Larry, have given me the confidence to present on building a PLN to the district September 30th.
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Hi Larry,
Your ELL’s might also like this one: How to Use Twitter: an Easy Guide for ESL learners. (with vocabulary) http://www.englishclub.com/twitter/index.htm
Initially EnglishClub.com had a lot of interest from learners interested in improving their English one line at a time. Many signed up and tried it out. Now the question is how to keep them tweeting?
Tara
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