March 13, 2013
by Larry Ferlazzo
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I’m not sure how new this is, but it’s certainly new to me. I just went to my Twitter profile and saw a message saying Embed Your Timeline In Your Website. I clicked on it and it took me to my settings under widgets. After one click I got the code for a widget, which I have put on my sidebar and shows my timeline. Is this brand new, or have I just missed it earlier?
December 10, 2012
by Larry Ferlazzo
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This is a minor issue, but Twitter has announced that by December 12th, all users will have the ability to upload a “header and background photos” on their profile page.
They have a short and sweet video showing how to do it. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Beginning To Learn What Twitter Is All About.
November 18, 2012
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Last month I posted The Eight Blogs & Four Email Newsletters I Read First. This is a companion list sharing the fifteen Twitter accounts I follow and which I make sure not to miss a tweet:
I’m adding this post to My Best Posts Related To Twitter.
November 3, 2012
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Subscribing to one’s own Twitter feed is a great way to have them available in a searchable archive. And it’s also a way that people who are not on Twitter can still subscribe to your tweets.
I know a number of people have been subscribers to my RSS Twitter feed. However, for some reason, it recently stopped working. So, if you are interested in re-subscribing, here’s the new RSS feed.
An easy way to subscribe to anyone’s Twitter RSS feed is to use this url:
api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=xxxxx
Instead of the “xxxxx” at the end, just type in the Twitter user’s name (that they use on Twitter). For example, my is “larryferlazzo”.
I’m adding this info to The Best Resources For Beginning To Learn What Twitter Is All About.
August 6, 2012
by Larry Ferlazzo
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As I’ve previously posted, our new book, “The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Guide: Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools, and Activities for Teaching English Language Learners of All Levels,” (co-authored by Katie Hull Sypnieski), was published last week.
Beginning today, Monday, we’re trying an experiment with our book on Twitter. Each day for the next thirty days I’ll be sending out tweets with two different key sentences from our book using the hashtag #eslsg (“ESL Survival Guide”). If you’re on Twitter and not already following me, you can find me at @Larryferlazzo. Feel free to respond to those sentences with questions or comments, too, using that same hashtag.
For readers who are not on Twitter, I’ll be compiling the quotations each week and posting them here. I’ll also be including Twitter questions or comments — and our responses to them — in those weekly summaries. Readers should feel free to leave comments on those summaries, too, and Katie and I will be responding to them.
We’ll see how it goes….
By the way, our editor is hopeful that all the downloadable resources will be posted on our book’s website by early this week, and they will be available to anyone — whether you purchase the book or not. They may be a bit unclear, though, if you’re not looking at them in the context of the book’s narrative.
October 28, 2011
by Larry Ferlazzo
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I’ve mentioned Storify on this blog in passing as an easy way to display “tweets.” In fact, I did just that in my post, Using Storify For “Poverty Matters When…”, when I displayed multiple tweets that began with that phrase. I had thought its use was pretty limited.
Yesterday, though, Storify announced some major changes, and its now one of the easiest tools to use to create a multimedia digital story. You can search the web for just about anything, including images, tweets, webpages, photos and videos, and use their “drag-and-drop” interface to add your own text and create a story (or a collection of labeled images, or just about anything). It’s really become quite versatile, and it would be difficult to find a tool that’s easier to use. You can also read this post from Read Write Web sharing other uses for the tool.
I’m adding it to The Best Ways To Create Online Slideshows and to The Best Digital Storytelling Resources.
October 24, 2011
by Larry Ferlazzo
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This is an all-in-one post on Twitter:
First, I’ll be a guest on #urbaned Chat on Twitter next Sunday at 6:00 PM Pacific/ 9:00 PM Eastern time, and will be discussing motivation.
Second, if you want to know how to participate in a Chat on Twitter, Read Write Web just posted How to Get Started With Twitter Chats.
And, thirdly, 10 New Twitter Tools That Will Get You Tweeting is a useful post worth checking-out.
I’m adding the last two resources to The Best Resources For Beginning To Learn What Twitter Is All About.
October 19, 2011
by Larry Ferlazzo
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“What’s Up” is a fascinating tool that lets you easily explore the most popular subjects on Twitter for any day or for any hour of that day. The Information Aesthetics blog has more information about the site.
I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Beginning To Learn What Twitter Is All About.
In addition, I’m including this post in a category where I list web tools that help you identify “most popular” items on the Web.
August 18, 2011
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Twijector displays tweets using a particular hashtag on an attractive screen that can be displayed at conferences. It can also be used by people who just want to view tweets using a hashtag, like in one of the many educational chats.
I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Beginning To Learn What Twitter Is All About.
August 12, 2011
by Larry Ferlazzo
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With Twtrland, all you have to do is type in a Twitter username and you get back a pretty neat profile of the person, their tweets, how many times they’ve been retweeted, and a bunch of other info attractively displayed.
I’m adding it to The Best Third-Party Twitter Apps That Don’t Require Your Password.
June 9, 2011
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Type in some words into Tweetolife and in return you’ll get a visualization comparing how men and women use them on Twitter.
I’m adding it to The Best Third-Party Twitter Apps That Don’t Require Your Password.
Thanks to Flowing Data for the tip.
May 30, 2011
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Hastagify is a neat Twitter app that lets you visualize connections between hashtags, as well as seeing all the tweets connected to a particular hashtag.
I’m adding it to The Best Third-Party Twitter Apps That Don’t Require Your Password.
Thanks to Information Aesthetics for the tip.
May 21, 2011
by Larry Ferlazzo
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As most teachers who have students writing blogs know, kids get very excited when people leave comments on their posts. Of course, we all appreciate it when people respond to our writing, and nothing beats having an authentic audience.
Today, I learned through Paula Naugle, a teacher in New Orleans, about the ability to solicit comments on student blogs through Twitter by using the hashtag #comments4kids. She relates in her blog post that her students received over 1,500 comments this year. And she told me separately that 70% of them were generated through use of that hashtag.
I think that’s amazing. The hashtag idea is brilliant, and I’d love to give credit to whomever came up with the idea. Let me know if you know who did.
(Paula writes that “The creator of the #comment4kids hashtag is William Chamberlain. There are teachers and student bloggers all over the world who are so thankful to Will for this innovative idea.”)
I’m adding this information to The Best Sources For Advice On Student Blogging.
May 21, 2011
by Larry Ferlazzo
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I periodically post “most popular” lists of websites (and books) that I think educators might find useful. Of course, there are a number of ways to gauge “popularity.” I just view these lists as opportunities to check-out some new sites, and find it interesting to see which ones might be particularly “popular.”
You might be interested in The Best Places To Find The Most Popular (& Useful) Resources For Educators –2010.
Today, I’d like to share about a site called “What The Trend.” It monitors thousands of “hashtags,” the words following the “#” sign, on Twitter. They are used to help Twitter users follow all tweets on a particular topic. What The Trend will help you understand what particular hashtags mean, which are the most popular at any given moment, and which are popular in what country. It actually looks pretty interesting.
Thanks to 10,000 Words for the tip.
April 20, 2011
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Type in a user name into Tweet Topic Explorer and you’ll get a multi-colored word cloud in “bubbles.”
I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About “Word Clouds” and to The Best Third-Party Twitter Apps That Don’t Require Your Password.
Thanks to Flowing Data for the tip.
April 18, 2011
by Larry Ferlazzo
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All you have to do to get a ton of data on your use of Twitter is type your user name into Tweetmetrics, and you’re given data galore.
I’m adding it to The Best Third-Party Twitter Apps That Don’t Require Your Password.
Thanks to Lyn Hilt for the tip.
April 13, 2011
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Tweet When shows you the days and times when you get the most retweets.
I’m adding it to The Best Third-Party Twitter Apps That Don’t Require Your Password.
March 26, 2011
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Before I began my “hot spot interviews” ESL/EFL teachers around the world, I thought it would be helpful to see both my Facebook Friends and Twitter Followers on a map. The Facebook sites were particularly helpful. The problem with the Twitter tools was that I could not find any that would show all followers at the same time — they’d only show a limited number at once. But that information was useful, just slightly less convenient.
Here are my choices for The Best Ways To Make A Map Showing Your Facebook Friends (& Twitter Followers):
FACEBOOK:
Placebook is new app that I didn’t know about until yesterday, when it was shared by Information Aesthetics. It looks interesting.
Here are three new ways to map your friends on Facebook: Map My Friends; Social Mine; and Friends Density. Thanks to Google Maps Mania for the tip.
Uwemi shows your Facebook friends on a map.
I’ve previously posted about Tripline, which is an excellent application that students can use for making maps of field trips, historical events, etc.They’ve now just announced new tools that let you create maps of your Facebook friends. They not only do they let you make maps of where your friends live, but you can also make maps of their most recent “check-ins” and where they grew up.You can read all about it at Tripline.
TWITTER:
Map My Followers (you can read more about the site at Read Write Web)
You might also be interested in My Best Posts Related To Twitter and A Beginning List Of The Best Resources For Learning About Facebook.
Feedback is welcome.
If you found this post useful, you might want to look at previous “The Best…” lists and also consider subscribing to this blog for free.
March 21, 2011
by Larry Ferlazzo
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Here are the newest additions to The Best Resources For Beginning To Learn What Twitter Is All About:
An Educators Guide To Twitter, compiled by Steven Anderson.
A list of educational chats on Twitter, compiled by Cybraryman.
A slideshow on the difference between Facebook and Twitter.
January 24, 2011
by Larry Ferlazzo
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“Your Twitter Followers Mapped” is a super-easy way to have your Twitter followers shown in a Google Map.
I’m adding it to The Best Third-Party Twitter Apps That Don’t Require Your Password.
Thanks to Google Maps Mania for the tip.
