@Please Help!
No I am not angry, frustrated or slinging profanities across the online universe! Instead I am trying to learn a new language in order to read the tweets that are sent to Tweet Deck from the many people that I am currently following via Twitter!
No I am not angry, frustrated or slinging profanities across the online universe! Instead I am trying to learn a new language in order to read the tweets that are sent to Tweet Deck from the many people that I am currently following via Twitter!
RT @djessome86: Put off by Twitter
Berger and Trexler (2010) introduce Twitter with the question "What Are You Doing?" (pg. 172). I have put off using Twitter for years because I thought Twitter was essentially that; What was I doing? Why would people want to know that I am starting my vehicle, walking my dog or cooking dinner? I was completely unaware of what a "Tweet" was or how to "Tweet" and I did not over enjoy being called a "Twit" when I told my friends about my new adventure (Kist, 2010, pg. 3).
Berger and Trexler (2010) introduce Twitter with the question "What Are You Doing?" (pg. 172). I have put off using Twitter for years because I thought Twitter was essentially that; What was I doing? Why would people want to know that I am starting my vehicle, walking my dog or cooking dinner? I was completely unaware of what a "Tweet" was or how to "Tweet" and I did not over enjoy being called a "Twit" when I told my friends about my new adventure (Kist, 2010, pg. 3).
After spending a bit of time getting to know the real Twitter, I have come to realize that I misunderstood the uses and purposes of Twitter. I have actually come to enjoy Twitter more than my Facebook habit merely for the amount of new information and ideas that I can learn every day from my new Professional Learning Network on Twitter.
#Learning Step by Step
In order to begin, I I felt the need to spend some time looking through Twitter Basics on the Twitter Help Center because I had a hard time reading between the symbols and vocabulary of a Tweet. Although a Tweet is only comprised of 140 characters, there are a lot of complexities involved, as summarized in Raffi Krikorian's Map of a Twitter Status Object as seen on The Economist Online:
In order to begin, I I felt the need to spend some time looking through Twitter Basics on the Twitter Help Center because I had a hard time reading between the symbols and vocabulary of a Tweet. Although a Tweet is only comprised of 140 characters, there are a lot of complexities involved, as summarized in Raffi Krikorian's Map of a Twitter Status Object as seen on The Economist Online:
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| Raffi Krikorian's Map of a Twitter Status Object |
I have learned a lot from the Twitter Help Center, and especially Edudemic's A-Z Dictionary of Educational Hashtags. Besides a quick trip to Google every once in a while to search for a hashtag or the meaning of a symbol, just purely playing with Twitter has also taught me a lot.
#Tweet Language
Here is a quick summary of some of the language I've learned so far:
Here is a quick summary of some of the language I've learned so far:
@: means at. Basically if I want to send a message to a specific person I can just use @ and their Twitter name to direct the Tweet at them. Send me a message at @djessome86!
@mentions: is an at directed at me. So anytime someone posts a Tweet using @djessome86 they are mentioning my name so the Tweet is directed at me.
#: is a hashtag. Basically a tag, keyword or summary of what the Tweet is about so that other people can follow Tweets on a specific topic. Some of my favorite hashtags at the moment: #daily5, #2ndchat, and #edes501. I'm still not overly sure about how a hashtag gets created or if you have to technically go about creating a hashtag in order to use it, but I will look more into this.
http://t.co: is Twitter's way of shortening URLs. Since we are limited to 140 characters and websites can be very long, links are shortened either through Twitter's built in converter or you can use sites like https://bitly.com/. So instead of Tweeting my blog at http://web2-0classroom.blogspot.com/ it shows up as http://bit.ly/sBResM.
RT: means retweet. This helps to spread useful information to more people. If I find a useful quote, link, suggestion, etc. and retweet it, it gets passed along to other people who are following me.
These are just a few of the basics that I have learned and used with my Twitter account thus far. My Twitter use is strictly professional and I like it that way. Everyday I can connect and collaborate with other educators in order to better myself as an educator and as a learner. I really agree with the way Richardson (2010) described Twitter and how it creates this ""network at my fingertips" phenomenon where people ask questions and get answers, link to great blog posts or resources, or share ideas for projects as they go through the day" (pg. 86).
Join me in the discussion! @djessome86
References:
Berger,
P., & Trexler, S. (2010). Choosing
web 2.0 tools for learning and teaching in a digital world. Santa Barbara,
CA: Libraries Unlimited Inc.
Kist, W. (2010). The socially
networked classroom, teaching in the new media age. Thousand Oaks, CA:
Corwin Press.
Richardson, W. (2010). Blogs,
wikis, podcasts, and other powerful web tools for classrooms. Thousand
Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
1 comment:
Thanks for the summary! That was perfect. I'm always afraid the address won't be made smaller. I should test it out!
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