Twitter

=Twitter= = =

=[|**Twitter Help Center - How To Sign Up on Twitter**]=

A [|Live Binder] on everything you need to know about Twitter!
==[| **25 Important Twitter Guides and Apps For Teachers**]==

=Twitter Handbook for Teachers -> =

==[|The Top 7 Twitter Tutorials on You Tube:] Twitter in Plain English (below), Twitter Tutorial: Getting Started, Twitter Tutorial: Finding People to Follow, Top Twitter Tutorial (Tweetdeck), Twitter Retweet Explained, Customize Twitter Theme Experience, Twitter Tutorial: 5 Desktop apps==

[|Translating the twittertalk - A beginner’s twittorial]
You swore you’d never do it, but finally you took the plunge — you signed up for Twitter. Now it’s time to make sense of the symbols and acronyms, so you can follow what’s going on in your newly created community. We’ve also included some hints and Twitter etiquette to get you started.

A very resourceful blog post on using Twitter.
==media type="youtube" key="ddO9idmax0o?fs=1" height="405" width="500" [|8 Videos to Help Teachers Get Started with Twitter!]==

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== **An article from the February 2010 Educational Leadership Journal:** **[|Why Teachers Should Try Twitter].**==

**[|100 Tips, Apps, and Resources for Teachers on Twitter]**
====Twitter can be at first glance a strange phenomenon and many don’t understand its purpose right away. However, Twitter is a powerful tool that is growing in popularity as word spreads of its potential capabilities. The idea of writing small blog posts of 140 characters or less to a group of your followers is actually a revolutionary new way to bring communities together, learn from each other, and keep updated with all that is happening. Busy teachers may feel that taking the time to learn how to use Twitter isn’t worth the return for the students benefit, so that’s why this list of 100 tips, apps, and resources is worth browsing. Find out how to get started with Twitter, ways to use it in an educational setting, and tools to help you use it better with these resources.====

**[|Twitter Guidebook]**
===="Twitter is a social network used by millions of people, and thousands more are signing up every day to send short messages to groups of friends. But where’s the user manual for Twitter? Where do new Twitter users go to learn about Tweeting, retweets, hashtags and customizing your Twitter profile? Where do you go if you want to know all about building a community on Twitter, or using Twitter for business? How can you find advanced tools for using Twitter on your phone or your desktop? To answer all these questions and more, we’ve assembled The Twitter Guide Book, a complete collection of resources for mastering Twitter. Happy Tweeting!” - Pete Cashmore, @Mashable====

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**Mastering Twitter in 10 Minutes or Less (Handbook)** [[file:MasteringTwitter.2009-c-1.pdf]]
=[|How to Start Tweeting (and Why You Might Want To)]=

===__Teachers:__ Create an online community of your classroom, share inspiration, ideas, reading, thoughts, post discussions, deadlines, homework, instantly create surveys for students, keep parents informed of daily projects.===

[|Advice for Teachers New To Twitter]
=Twitter Cheat Sheet =

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How to set up a Twitter Account with students.
=**Websites:**=


 * ==[|Introduction to Twitter]==

|| ==PLN Yourself Wiki ==

Twitter and Blogs
|| =[|**The Twitter4Teachers Wiki**]= Provides multiple lists of educators to follow = = ||  || Many things applicable for all elementary grades (and beyond) || =**[|We Follow - Educators on Twitter]**=
 * ==[|Top 10 Twitter Tips]== || ==[|**K-3 Teachers Guide to Twitter**]==

A comprehensive list
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 * =[|Classrooms that Tweet]= || ==[|Pedagogical Serendipity (or, how Twitter saved my]==

|| ==[|If you Give a Teacher a Twitter]==

A 4th Grade Teachers Prezi about Twitter
(Joan Young,  @[|flourishingkids]   on Twitter.) ||   ||