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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
  

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BOOKS

• The Twitter Book by O'Reilly and Milstein
• Social Media for School Leaders by Dixon

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
• Twittermail
• TwitBoxSL for Second Life
• Tweetbot
• ​Twiducate: Social network for schools

FINDING OTHERS

• Twitter4Teachers
• TwitterCounter
• Twiangulate 
• TagBoard EdTech

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 Dembl's List of administwitters
• The remarkable power of Twitter
• 4 reasons administrators need Twitter
• How to reach parents and the community
• #edchat transcripts
• Top 100 school administrators blogs
• Using Twitter for school communication
• Private schools using Twitter
• Accuweather Twitter Bot
• @Forecast (http://twitter.com/#!/forecast)
• YouTube Video of "Administwitters: Administrators and Twitter"
• Adobe Connect Twitter presentation (1/16/12)
• Connected principals focus questions

TWITTER CLASSROOM EXAMPLES

• 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 (http://linkyy.com/9Q)
• 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
• PInterest search: Twitter in the classroom
• Pinterest search: Twitter bulletin board ideas
• 50 ways to use Twitter in the classroom
• Twitter-tastic teacher's guide

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https://www.teachthought.com/technology/22-ways-to-use-twitter-for-learning-based-on-blooms-taxonomy/

Twitter in the 1980's

TOOLS TO EXTEND TWITTER

• Twitter Search
• Tweet Cloud
• Visible Tweets
• Twubs
• A-Z dictionary of educational Twitter hashtags
• Tweet Archivist (single free sample)
• Twitter Topic Explorer (enter handle at bottom)
• RSS feed for Twitter users and lists
• Create an RSS feed for any Twitter search
• Tagboard hashtag tool
• List of education Twitter chats

TWITTER TIPS AND TRICKS

• Bitly URL shortening
• Twitter acronyms and abbreviations​

FUN WITH TWITTER

• FollowFamous
• Twitlogo
• Twitter comics
• Verizon phone commercial
• The Twitter song by Ben Walker
• Create a fake Tweet

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES BY OTHERS

• Beginner's guide to Twitter
• Make the most of your 140 Twitter characters
• Twitter search in plain English
• Tweets for education, part 1
• Tweets for education, part 2
• Top 100 Twitter tools for 2012
• 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)

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