The Stupidest Thing
 You've Ever Heard Of
That you might find useful
Dean Shareski
Feb. 2010
Twitter
What Is it?
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. (wikipedia)
140
The World's
Largest Cocktail 
Party
    * News
    * Spam
    * Self-promotion
    * Pointless babble
    * Conversational
    * Pass-along value

But Dean
Still sounds stupid
"I don't care what you had for lunch"
"It's just a bunch of noise"
"It sounds like a waste of my
time and I'm a busy person."
News
Conversational
Pass-along value

Why does the world need this, exactly? It's not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads and saying, "If only there were a technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50 friends, alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast cereal." Robyn Twomey, Time Magazine 
Did you know?
My Twitter Stories
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Tips
Follow the Right People
Listen and filter
Be helpful and generous
Stuff
http://tweepml.org/
http://www.ubertwitter.com/
http://tweetdeck.com/beta/
http://twitterfon.net/
http://twitter4teachers.pbworks.com/
Wanna play?
Twitter in Schools?
Misconceptions
http://technologizer.com/2009/05/11/ten-twitter-mythconceptions/
Mythconception #1: The fact that some people tweet about what they ate for breakfast is a sign that Twitter is shallow.
Mythconception #2: People who tweet what they had for breakfast are wasting your time.
Mythconception #3: Twitter encourages rampant narcissism.
Mythconception #4: Your number of followers says something about how interesting your tweets are.
Mythconception #5: There are right ways and wrong ways to use Twitter.
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
Resources
http://twitpic.com
Tools
http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-iphone/
Twitter saved me $764.13
My parents really appreciate the updates.  I try to twitter throughout the day- what we are doing, and student learning outcomes.I teach at a school where the parents are very involved in thier child's education.  I find that many of my parents check for updates daily- if not hourly.

My students also like to help me twitter.  We talk about what we are doing- and many times they tell me what to post.

It is also great for connecting with other teachers from around the country, and the world.  I have seen some great ideas twittered- and have borrowed many of them.
Chad Lehman
Wisconsin
Katie
British Columbia
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