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Using Twitter Among Students
Name: Sara IbrahimID: 200910660
Content
• General Information• Get Started With Twitter• Advantages of Twitter• Using Twitter Effectively• Students and Twitter• Exercise
General Information
• Definition
• Founders
• Features
Definition
• Twitter is an online service and social networking that enables you to post updates with other “tweeps” by answering a single question “What’s happening?”
• Twitter limits tweets, so you only receive and post tweets up to 140 characters.
Founder
• Jack Dorsey • @jack• “Executive Chairman of Twitter, CEO of
Square, a founder of both.”
Features
• Who to follow:o View Suggestions: allow you to follow “tweeps” depending on
who you follow and other variableso Browse Interests: allow you to follow “tweeps” based on over
20 categorieso Find your friends: allow you to find “tweeps” from your email
account• Searches: search for topics and keywords and save your
search• Advertising: you need to have an idea about promoted
trends, promoted tweets and promoted accounts
Get Started With Twitter
• Create a twitter account
• Twitter terminology
Create a twitter account
• Step 1: go to http://twitter.com/• Step 2: join twitter by typing your full name, email and
password in the sign up box• Step 3: choose a username (suggestions available) then
click on “Create my account”• Step 4: you can follow some stages to help you start
with twitter or you can skip them• Step 5: confirm your email address to access all of
twitter’s features Watch how to create a
twitter account
Twitter Terminology• Follow: when you follow an account, all their tweets will appear in
your timeline• Unfollow: to stop seeing someone’s tweets in your timeline • Retweet (RT): to share someone’s tweets with your followers• Block: use it when you find a spammer in your followers list to remove
it from your list• Reply: to respond to someone’s tweet• Mentions: click on @mentions to check when someone has mentioned
you• @: use it if you want to mention another tweep; it is also the first part
of a username (ex. @Sara_Albastaki)• #: use it to categorize tweets, trending topics (TT) are usually
combined with # • Direct Message (DM): it is private massages you want to send to other
tweeps
Advantages of Twitter
• Communication tool
• Share and receive information
Communication Tool
• Twitter made the world smallero Communicate with different people around
the worldEx. we can have friend from different countries
o Ask about them and talk about our interests
Share and Receive Information
• We can know what is happening in the worldo Politicso Economicso Sports o Musico Celebrities• Share those information
Using Twitter Effectively
• Tweeting style
• Tag your tweet
• Use a twitter organizer
Tweeting Style
Tag Your Tweet• Make your tweets visible to other tweeps• Give your tweets more exposure• Create discussions• # allows you to search the tweets containing the
hashtag • Get into conversations with other tweeps about a
specific topic• It helps connect with a particular group of people
or with people interested in the same things you are (ex. #ZU)
Use a Twitter Organizer
Watch how TweetDeck
works…
Twitter and Students
• Organize events• Connection between students & teachers• Class discussion• Share info about a topic• Research tool
Organize Events
• Important announcements• Lectures• Trips• Meetings time and date
Connection Between Students & Teachers
• Students can ask about each other, know what is happening in their school or university
• Teachers can post test dates to inform students
• Teachers can comment about class discussion or what lessons have been taken in class to update students
Class Discussion
• Share opinions, ask questions and discuss different answersIt helps increase the students’ knowledgeIt encourages students who don’t participate to
be engaged in class discussions
• It doesn’t mean we have to replace the regular formats, twitter is used to enhance class discussion process
Share Info about a Topic
• Students can share outside information about a topic taken in class It helps widen their knowledgeIt encourages critical thinkingIt encourages students to be more engaged in
class
Research Tool
Exercise
• Go to
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