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Cure What Ails You: A Dose of Twitter for Every Day

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The presentation provides an in-depth overview of the micro-blogging, social media tool, Twitter. Twitter is a great source of professional development and collaboration to add to your personal learning network.

The links to the tips, tricks, tools, research, and other items included in the presentation are listed below.

BOOKS ON THE TOPIC

• Fitton, et.al.: Twitter for dummies
• McLeod & Lehmann: What school leaders need to know
• Currie, et.al.: 140 Twitter tips for educators
• The Twitter Book by O'Reilly and Milstein
• Social Media for School Leaders by Dixon

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WHAT IS TWITTER

• "Twitter in plain English video" by Lefever
• "What the heck is Twitter" by Baeckdal

WHY SHOULD I USE TWITTER

• "Twitter Literacy" blog post by Rheingold
• Mashable: "If you printed Twitter" 
• Research on educator use ot Twitter (Alderton)

HOW DOES IT WORK

• Twitter vocabulary: Twittonary

TWITTER APPLICATIONS

• Twitter
• Twitter for iPhone
• Twitter for Android
• TweetDeck for Mac
• TweetDeck for Chrome
• Twitterific
• Twitter Mobile
• TwitBoxSL for Second Life
• Tweetbot
• ​Twiducate: Social network for schools

FINDING OTHERS

• Twitter4Teachers​
• Twiangulate 
• Twitter chats for educators calendar

PERSONAL LEARNING NETWORKS

• Pew Internet social media and teens report
• Educator Twitter survey Data 2010

ESPECIALLY FOR SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS (ADMINISTWITTERS®)

• New Hampshire superintendent video
• Steve Dembo's list of administwitters
• The remarkable power of Twitter
• 4 reasons administrators need Twitter
• How to reach parents and the community
• Top 100 school administrators blogs
• Using Twitter for school communication
• Accuweather Twitter Bot
• Connected principals focus questions

TWITTER CLASSROOM EXAMPLES

• PInterest search: Twitter in the classroom
• Pinterest search: Twitter bulletin board ideas
• How to tweet as a historical figure (@TitanicRealTime)
• Collaborative writing on Twitter
• Practice a foreign language
• Academic excellence in 140 characters
• Roosevelt High School (MN) video
• Will Richardson: 5 unexpected Twitterers
• Harry Tuttle: Twitter assessment rubric
• 35 ways to use Twitter in the classroom
• 28 simple ways to use Twitter in the classroom
• 25 ways to get the most out of Twitter​​
• 40 ways to use Twitter in the classroom

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TOOLS TO EXTEND TWITTER

• Twitter Search
• Tweet Cloud
• Twubs​
• Twitter Topic Explorer (enter handle at bottom)
• RSS feed for Twitter users and lists
• Create an RSS feed for any Twitter search​
• Twitter chats for educators calendar

TWITTER TIPS AND TRICKS

• Bitly URL shortening
• Twitter acronyms and abbreviations​

FUN WITH TWITTER

• Twitter comics
• Verizon phone commercial
• The Twitter song by Ben Walker
• Create a fake Tweet
• Fake Tweet generator

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES BY OTHERS

• Beginner's guide to Twitter
• Twitter search in plain English
• Tweets for education, part 1
• Tweets for education, part 2
• 60 inspiring examples of Twitter in the classroom
• Twitter EDU
• The teacher's guide to Twitter
• 50 ways to use Twitter in your classroom
• Teachers: Use Twitter for professional development
• Introduction to Twitter (Truss)
• The ultimate guide to Twitter

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