Twitter+Integration+in+EDCT+2030

In this two weeks you are to participate in Twitter live chats on your own. I am going to keep my hands off this time so that you can join it fully by yourself! Again make sure you find a chat that fits your interest and your time in the Twitter chat master list. Click here for the link to the list. - In some special cases chats may be cancelled due to special events. You can join another chat that takes place concurrently or choose to join another chat at a later time. Chats are available throughout the week. Be selective but also dedicated to contributing the conversation when you're in chat. - You don't need to the class hashtag #edct2030 in your live chats. Just use whatever hashtag you found in the master list. - Copy and paste your tweets in a word document or make screenshots of your tweets at the end of each chat session. You will need to submit them by the end of Week 12.
 * Week 11 & 12**
 * Note:**

=Week 9 & 10= Guided twitter chats (instructions can be found in each week's wiki page) Week 9 #edchat Week 10 #ntchat (cancelled) #fledchat was chosen instead

=Week 7 & 8= We will continue our discussion on twitter for week 7 & 8. However, I will put my guidance and instruction aside and let you freely discuss any topics you are interested in, as long as they are related to technology and also the bigger scope of teaching and learning. You may discuss on any specific tools that you're interested in using, or if you would like a little more focused, find topics that we have covered in this week's content. For example, in week 7, you may want to discuss productivity tools, lesson plan making, instructional design, etc in week 8, you may want to discuss using clickers, smartboards, interactive ppt, prezi, etc.

=Week 6= The discussion topic of this week is on the notion of visual literacy. This concept particularly relates to the use of multimedia, especially graphics and videos in delivering your instruction. You may want to check out these two readings if you think it is a new concept to you: http://education.jhu.edu/PD/newhorizons/strategies/topics/literacy/articles/visual-literacy-and-the-classroom/ http://www.purduecal.edu/cie/fliers/Oct.8.2008.pdf Some questions for you to ponder- Find someone in the class who you haven't contacted yet and reply to his/her tweets. Use the hashtag #edct2030 to search for their tweets. Again, keep the conversation going! Try to make the discussion sustained! Share and RTs great resources or quotes if you found any!
 * What are some of the best practices of using graphics and videos?
 * What are some of the problems you face when you try to use images and videos in your teaching?
 * How to effectively use graphics and videos to present your instructional content/message?
 * New requirement:**

=Week 5= I believe all of you have gradually become a Twitter-savvy learner! This week we will start a new task on Twitter. We will use it to discuss different topics in teaching and learning. In the next three weeks, we will continue to use Twitter to discuss different topics. Since we have learned how to make podcast this week, the topic of this week is about using podcast in education and why you want to use auditory materials. Consider the following prompts when you tweet: • What are the pedagogical use of podcast? • What's your understanding of podcast? • In what context you may want to consider podcast or auditory materials in your learning? • What are the benefits and constraints of using podcast? **!!!!**You need to post three tweets at the minimum for this week. If you want to be a little bit advanced, try to explore some educational podcast-related hashtags and see what you find out. They may not be all relevant, but they are, remember to share!

=Week 4= This week we will continue to explore educational hashtags (#) on your own. Click here to find a more comprehensive list of educational hashtags. Feel free to discuss and share your interesting topics in whatever ways you feel comfortable with.

=Week 3= This week you can freely explore the educational hashtags (#) on your own. Check out this blog to get a deeper understanding of hashtag use in education arena. Among the 300+ hashtags, find a few that are of interest to you and explore them on your own. How you may present your exploration efforts are not restricted this time. You can do what have done in the past two weeks, or strike a conversation with educational professional you found interesting in the Twitter-sphere. There is no limit on the form or volume of your exploration. You may just tweet once or if you found it appealing, tweet as many times as you like. Just remember to hashtag#edct2030 so that I can search for your tweets. If you found the 140-character limit is annoying, read the following article and learn how to get around it. How [|#Twitter] 's new blue-line conversations feature is a workaround for the 140-character limit http://bit.ly/18fp4Fp

=Week 2= I believed I've added all of you who followed the class account @edct2030 into the class list on Twitter. If you don't find yourself in the class list (https://twitter.com/EDCT2030/lists/edct2030fall13), please let me know ASAP. So here is what to do this week: 1. Go to the class list and go ahead and follow everyone in the class. (I understand some of you may not want to, and I won't force you- You are not losing any points because you're not following them. But it's just nice to show an interest in knowing your peers by following them on Twitter. Plus, if you found someone annoying or talking weird things, you can always unfollow them later. Knowing your peers in the class is important to build a learning community since you're not learning in isolation, even though you may not see their face often in real life. ) 2. Find someone in the class who you don't know previously and start greeting them. 3. This week you're going to explore the hashtag #edtech. Please place #edtech in the search box in your Twitter page and read through the "edtech-tagged" tweets you received. 4. Find someone in the class who you don't know previously and tell him/her what have you found out about #edtech. You can put their twitter handle (i.e.@XXX) in the front or at the end of your tweet. Try to discuss what you have searched with your peer. Examples: 5. Try to keep the conversation going!!! You may not receive immediate response, but if you received notifications of someone @ your name, please respond to them at your convenient time!
 * @tintinluo: #edtech is about....U think so?
 * RT Will Twitter's New Conversations Hinder or Spark Conversations? http://bit.ly/174wNDZ @XXX this seems very useful to K12 educators. What u think?
 * @XXX: I didn't find out much. How abt u?
 * !!!I understand the above examples may sound pretense or faked. My whole point is for you to find someone in the class and initiate a conversation about what you learn or what your find interesting on Twitter! For example, if you find an interesting article that were introduced by any of the #edtech tweets, you can retweet it and @someone in our class to direct the attention to this article for him/her. Then you may start discussing some more specific topics illustrated in the article. **
 * You should learn to develop your own way of starting an online conversation and keep the conversation sustained! **

Week 1
Explore the hashtag #edchat. You will need to search this hashtag #edchat in the search box on Twitter and post three tweets at the minimum about what have you found. You may consider your tweet to be the following things: -
 * Your tweet can be a conceptual comment about your understanding of #edchat. Example: I found that #edchat deals with/ is about....
 * It could be a RT- retweet (repost of someone else's tweet) of a tweet you read that has #edchat hashtag. But make sure NOT all of your 3 tweets are RTs. Example: RT 10 great tips for engaging students and supporting learning process: http:// edut.to/182TGda [|#edchat]
 * It can also a conversation between you and your classmates discussing the findings you get from researching #edchat on Twitter. Example: @XXXX I also found that #edchat is interesting. It helps me.....