Who gives a tweet?
Karen Strickland, Senior Lecturer & Senior Teaching Fellow
Office of the Vice Principal (Academic)
@strictlykaren
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
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
Reproduced with permission from Sarah Stewart: http://www.slideshare.net/sarahs/how-to-use-twitter-for-learning-and-teaching
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/
Reproduced with permission from Sarah Stewart: http://www.slideshare.net/sarahs/how-to-use-twitter-for-learning-and-teaching
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
Conference participation (backchannel)
• Follow conference hashtag #ISSOTL2012
• Access to conference dialogue even when you can’t attend
• Connect & network in a different way
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
When twitter can go wrong
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/
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