Twitter is a microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as “tweets”. We encourage you to explore the Twitter teacher community to connect with like minded teachers in the field, explore ideas, and understand the issues around teaching and learning. You are also encourage to set up your own profile, or reclaim one previously created, to contribute your own ideas, learning, and development in order to grow your personal learning network.

Twitter Homepage

This is where you can create an account or do administrative tasks, like manage your settings, lists, etc. Although it is possible to use the website for reading tweets, it is strongly recommended that you use a social media management platform (such as Hootsuite or Tweetdeck) to be able to filter content into columns. A couple of analogies for this is being able to change channels on a TV set or visit different Youtube channels. On the Twitter homepage, you see all of the tweets from all of the various accounts you follow in one stream, which can be disorienting if shifting contexts from pottery to technology to politics. Using a management tool, you can set up columns of different feeds for different keywords (hashtags) or for different lists of accounts (educators, politicians, news organizations, etc.).

The hashtag for this course is #edci337 and you may also find it interesting to explore additional hashtags such as: #multimedialearning

#edtech

#designthinking