- It's okay to have diversified interests on Twitter.
- I kind of view education as my business, and tweets as promotions thereof, so have held off writing more personal tweets. However, Fitton and Hussain said that it was okay to post a few personal things so that your readers feel a greater connection.
- I need to make a habit of tweeting more frequently.
- As per Hussain and Fitton, when starting to tweet, it is a good habit to shoot for posting 5 tweets per day. Unless I'm-live tweeting an event, I have thus far felt like that would be a bit too wordy for me to post directly. However, if re-tweets could count as some of those, that makes sense. However, maybe I need to get with the program and tweet more frequently.
- Thinking of ways to use Twitter in the classroom:
- Here's a scary one- think you're brave enough to try it? Have parent volunteers tweet out what they see when they come into your classroom. (You'd need to have some privacy guidelines for what gets tweeted). Would it be the positive representation that you'd want people to hear?
- I think quite a bit about what Twitter can do for schools. Neither of the schools I'm at currently use Twitter, and I'd love to get them hooked on it. This quote is perfect! "So why would a business want to establish a presence on Twitter? There are several reasons: To network with customers and see what they’re saying. To answer questions. To finely tool a company image. To poll and pull in feedback. To bring in new leads or customers. To take advantage of an innovative form of 140-character advertising. (If you have a limited quantity of something to sell in a short amount of time, you can’t find a better channel than Twitter to make it known.)"
- Fitton, Laura; Hussain, Anum; Leaning, Brittany (2014-12-05). Twitter For Dummies (pp. 14-15). Wiley. Kindle Edition.
- First of all, how can a school afford to pass up this chance to get in the driver's seat in regards to the online rhetoric surrounding them! Parents so often turn to Facebook and Twitter to air their frustrations. Why can't a school be their own publicist or PR Rep!
- "network with customers and see what they're saying"- YES! Parents and families are our customers. We DO need to remain aware of what families are saying!
- "Tag clouds Tweet Cloud (http:// tweetcloud.icodeforlove.com) and TagCrowd (http:// tagcrowd.com), Trending Topics, and hashtags have something in common: They can generate a Twitter tag cloud, a visual display of words in which the relative size of the word corresponds to how many times it has been mentioned. Tag clouds provide an easy visualization of what’s going on in the Twitterverse in real time. Words that twitterers use a lot appear in the tag cloud, and the more mentions a word gets, the larger, darker, and bolder its display is. Tag clouds represent another, often quite visually appealing way to see what’s going on."
- Fitton, Laura; Hussain, Anum; Leaning, Brittany (2014-12-05). Twitter For Dummies (pp. 129-130). Wiley. Kindle Edition.
- This would be a really great activity for morning meeting- check out the Tweet Cloud to see what's going on in the world. For primary age, I would preview the cloud first to make sure it was safe. I wonder if there's a way to do a Tweet Cloud sort of thing for NewsELA? That would tailor the topics to be more school-appropriate.
More thoughts to come on Twitter, I'm sure, but for now, these were foremost on my mind.
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