Twitter @ School

I presented (albeit 5minutes) at our eLearning group tonight. My brief was to talk about how I use twitter. At the end of my bit (I had to shoot off - an 8 year old's birthday - more than my lifes worth to be late) I promised to send some links around about what I'd said.

I've now decided to send one link - this blog - with all my ideas in it. This is primarily for school people, but may be of interest to others.

My personal use of twitter.

1, Why I tweet. An early blog post of mine. It's at http://chrismaths.blogspot.com/2009/12/why-i-tweet.html

2, How to set up a PLN (Personal Learning Network). Also on this blog. http://chrismaths.blogspot.com/p/how-to-set-up-your-pln.html

3, #Ukedchat (see http://ianaddison.net/?p=288 or http://ukedchat.wikispaces.com/ for details

4, Networking. I'm the only timetabler in school, so where do i go to talk to other timetablers. It's also a place to talk to teachers from other phases - primary, tertiary, etc..

School Use.

1, I've got a school twitter account. It's at http://twitter.com/JBSMaths It's the one I share with students.

2, I have strict (but positive) guidelines on how it is used. All of this can be found by going to my new dept blog - http://jbsmaths.blogspot.com/p/twitter.htmltml

Hootsuite lets me see what students write, when and only when they @mention my acc. So far this has been a very successful technique. Below is an exmaple of what I see on hootsuite...

Whilst I could read all their tweets, i really have no desire to!

Anything I need to add?