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This education hashtag listing is a refined list based on the one available through Cybrary Man. Please visit his site for more hashtag options. Also, follow leading educators using many of these hashtags by visiting this page of the same site. You can easily reach this listing by visiting http://www.novemberlearning.com/twitterhashtags.

General Education #Education – General Education #edchat – General Education #educhat – General Education #ntchat – New Teachers #curriculum – Curriculum #k12 – K12 Education #passiondriven – Passion Driven Educators Subject Areas #artsed – Art Education #arted – Art Education #engchat – English Education #mathchat – Math Education #musedchat – Music Education #sschat – Social Studies Education #socialstudies – Social Studies Education #scichat – Science Education #langchat – Foreign Language Education #historyteacher – History Education #physed – Physical Education Specialty Areas #edtech – Technology in Education #edapp – iOS Apps in Education #ipadchat - iPads in Education #ellchat – ELL Education #esl – ESL Education #gtchat – Gifted and Talented Education #spedchat – Special Education #sped – Special Education #isedchat – Independent Schools  – Counselors #elearning – E-Learning #librarians – Librarians #tlchat – Librarians #library – Librarians #stem – STEM Education #flipclass – Flipped Classrooms

Administrators #cpchat – Connected Principals #edadmin – School Administrators Education Levels #earlyed – Early Age Education #preschool – Preschool #kedu – Kindergarten Education #kinderchat – Kindergarten Education #elemchat – Elementary Grade Educators #midleved – Middle Grades Education #highered – Higher Education Issues #edreform – Education Reform #ptchat – Parent Teacher Issues #parenting – Parenting #bullying – Bullying #cybersafety – Cyber Safety #dyslexia – Dyslexia #adhd – Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder #infolit – Information Literacy #literacy – Literacy #profdev - Professional Development November Learning #nlearning #blc11

New Pew Study on ... Twitter

The new study from Pew Research Center finds that 8% of online Americans use Twitter.

According to their summary, some of the groups who are notable for their relatively high levels of Twitter use include:

• Young adults – Internet users ages 18-29 are significantly more likely to use Twitter than older adults.
• African-Americans and Latinos – Minority internet users are more than twice as likely to use Twitter as are white internet users.
• Urbanites – Urban residents are roughly twice as likely to use Twitter as rural dwellers.

Twitter Increases Student Engagement [STUDY]

Mashable reports exciting findings:
"Students in the study who were asked to contribute to class discussions and complete assignments using Twitter increased their engagement over a semester more than twice as much as a control group."

Once again, it's the connections and bonds,not the tool itself.

Follow-a-library on twitter on Oct 1st

Follow-a-library on twitter on Oct 1st:

What would happen if each person on twitter would mention his or her favorite library there?

What a great promotion of libraries this would be!!

October 1, 2010 has been declared the follow a library on twitter day. Well respected names from the international library community, such as Michael Stephens and David Lee King have ackowledged their participation in promoting the special event.



How does it work?

Participating is very simple: tweet on October 1st what your favorite twittering library (or libraries) is (or are). Use in your tweet the hashtag (or keyword) #followalibrary.

OK Twitter users:  follow newtrierlibrary on Twitter!

A Nice Bridge between Facebook and Twitter

Today's New York Times article "Media Companies Try Getting Social with Tumblr" explains how media outlets such as The New Yorker and the Huffington Post are using the Tumblr blogging service to push out content simply and effectively in ways that complement their Facebook and Twitter sites. If you examine these sites, they are almost like "trailers" to the larger content provided on the main website.

Why would they bother using a third type of social media? Folks are already following them on Facebook and Twitter.

For one thing, they can integrate their Facebook with Tumblr, offering their Tumblr blog readers the opportunity to post comments directly onto their Facebook site. This cross-fertilization can bring more readers on board. "Notes" are also added which reveal who liked the posts and who "re-blogged" them. Readers may be able to find those with similar interests more easily.

Comic by rivv

Secondly, they are not limited to such short posts, they can add video, bigger and better pictures!, and more enticing snippets connected to their longer stories from their main websites. Tumblr makes it really easy to share not only text, but also photos, quotes, links, dialogues, audio, video, and slideshows.  

Tumblr themes are available in 5 languages: English, German, Japanese, French, and Italian with the promise of more in the future. No Spanish?  No Chinese? I think this blogging platform would be great for our world language teachers.

Mobile apps are proliferating, but right now they are mostly for Apple products and Blackberry. I did not find Droid apps on their site.

I really like the look and feel of Tumblr.  Could it be that I'm getting bored with Blogger? Any support out there for switching our New Trier Library blog to Tumblr?

Twitter Power: "humor, information, emotion, and all in 140 characters"!

Today's USA Today features Twitter as its cover story:
Twitter Power: Learning From Ourselves in Real Time

People aren't laughing and making fun of Tweeters anymore; it is no longer just a celebrity phenomenon.  The Library of Congress has chosen to archive the world's tweets in order to curate and disseminate information to scholars.  What a trove of oral history from 114 million users!

Individuals have a voice which is connected to the world as never before. Twitter has been used as an activist tool, one for promoting social good; it is now looked to as a barometer of people's reactions to evens and products.

New School Library With (One Tweet) x Many

By Rocco Staino -- School Library Journal, 5/10/2010

Shepherds Junior School in Arusha, Tanzania, is getting a school library, thanks to Twitter and the grassroots fundraising group Epic Change.

Epic Change founder and CEO Stacey Monk (@StaceyMonk) volunteered at the school in January 2007, and its founder and headmistress Mama Lucy Kamptoni asked Monk to partner with her school.

Monk’s website, which supports grassroots change and social entrepreneurship, decided to sponsor the school through TweetsGiving, a 48 hour fundraiser that takes place around the Thanksgiving holiday. Using Twitter, blogging, and other social media, the site raised $10,000 in 2008, which was used to build a new classroom for the Tanzanian school. And last year, it raised $35,000 to create the school’s first library, which will open in the next few months.

Read more at:
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6728180.html?desc=topstory

Using Twitter as a 'Back Channel' in the Classroom: Pros & Cons

 Read this recent ProQuest article, shared  by Linda Straube:

Jeffrey R Young. The Education Digest. Ann Arbor: Mar 2010. Vol. 75, Iss. 7; p. 9

Purdue University Professor shares his experiences of using Twitter as a back channel in the classroom. He says: "students in class are online or texting on their phones anyway, so why not try to channel that energy to class discussion?"  Although there are some negatives, he explains that students seem to love the chance to make their voices heard in class without having to actually speak.

TwHistory

Shared by Joyce Valenza on Twitter - Wow! Students can role play with this one...and need a library research visit for several days to pull it off.

I am talking about TwHistory: "virtual reenactments can increase engagement while providing opportunities for students to research personal journals and other primary source documents. In order to organize, study, and preserve these online reenactments we have created TwHistory.org."

See the Reenactment directory to get an idea of how this works.

This can even move your project beyond the classroom: "TwHistory projects have the potential to draw a large audience. Spectating Twitter followers often retweet favorite messages, drawing additional followers to the reenactment."

The Twitter Experiment - UT Dallas

Dr. Rankin, professor of History at UT Dallas, wanted to know how to reach more students and involve more people in class discussions both in and out of the classroom. She turned to Twitter to boost student engagement.

Twitter is at the Heart of Mental Disorders

So that's what's wrong with me! Who knew?

For more on whether Twitter breeds narcissism read this Social Media Today analysis.

This is for all you Twitter skeptics: What I learned on Twitter today

Here's a listing of cool things I learned and shared in about 30 minutes on Twitter:(and this is without Mashable's feeds down??for some reason)

FillAnyPDF.com is a website where you upload your PDF form and link to it so other people can fill it out and sign it online. No software is needed. Any PDF form can be used, even if it's not "interactive", so you can get started right away. You can even invite a group to fill out your forms and track the results. Anyone that collects signatures or filled out forms will find FillAnyPDF.com to be a valuable time-saving resource. (Phil Bradley, librarian)

VUVOX - slideshows, photo, video and music sharing. Use the Collage option to quickly produce dynamic interactive panoramas with hot-spots. Use Studio to build a personalized media presentation... and, place it in your Collage. Use Express to build presentations with dynamic content from RSS feeds and online albums.(Phil Bradley, librarian)

WatchKnow Videos: all the best free educational videos made for children, and making them findable and watchable on one website. Millions of great short videos, and other watchable media, explaining every topic taught in schools, in every major language on Earth ( a goal), usefully categorized according to subject, education level, and placed in the order in which topics are typically taught. (Tom Whitby, Professor of Education in Secondary English.)

The Power of TED talks: The Economist comments on David Cameron's #TED talk http://bit.ly/aTsf6Z
(The Economist)

Welcome to the world of zero privacy! How Buzz, Facebook and Twitter Create Social Insecurity
(Mike Elgan,technology culture writer)

Michael Stephens is walking his dog in Mishawaka, IN, near Petro Park. (8:30 am today) --Michael Stephens Professor of Library & Information Science at Dominican Univ.

Watch the YouTube video about POD's: Personally Owned Devices that students bring to school and our need for educators to start using them in the classroom.
This is part 3 of 3: Expectations and Attitudes.
(digital teacher Sonya Woloshen - fearless new teacher, willing to experiment)
shared by "thecleversheep" Ross Lucier, Canadian who works with e-tools).

Love my personal learning network.

Pew on Social Media and Young Adults

Pew Internet and American Life Project released its report yesterday on Social Media and Young Adults. Telephone survey data confirmed what we are observing and hearing from students. Amongst the key findings:

"Blogging has declined in popularity among both teens and young adults since 2006. Blog commenting has also dropped among teens."

"Both teen and adult use of social networking sites has risen significantly, yet there are shifts and some drops in the proportion of teens using several social networking site features."

"Teens are not using Twitter in large numbers."

"Cell phone ownership is nearly ubiquitous among teens and young adults."

For more details and the full report, click here.

Mention Map - Twitter Tool

Quickly find relevant people to follow! Use Mentionmap to see Twitter conversations as a network and click any user to explore.

Some short Podcasts on the Power of Twitter

Mary Ann Apple sent me some very short podcasts posted on Drop.io --another cool web 2.0 tool for storing/saving things online. This "drop" has 3 very short podcasts regarding the value of Twitter as a Personal Learning Network (PLN).

I embedded one of the Twitter podcasts here:

Discover Simple, Private Sharing at Drop.io

First college-level journalism course focused on Twitter @ DePaul University

This article was brought to my attention by librarian Matt Stuczynski. DePaul University's new journalism class is called: "Digital Editing: From Breaking News to Tweets." Looks like Twitter is here to stay for awhile. Read more at the Wall St. Journal blog Speakeasy.

Learn How TweetGrid Powers Up Your Twitter Search

TweetGrid - A Quick "How To" from Jeff Turner on Vimeo.

I am following 9 live Twitter search feeds simultaneously on Twitter: http://is.gd/1I2hJ
It's worthwhile for breaking news.

Graph your Twitter Stats

You may want to see your Twitter Stats including

* Tweets per hour
* Tweets per month
* Tweet timeline
* Reply statistics
Click on Twitter Stats to see both bar graphs and word clouds. This service has almost 24,000 twitter followers. It's fun to see who you re-tweet most.

The 2 top folks I re-tweet most are: Mashable (Pete Cashmore) and Joyce Valenza.

David Parry, a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas talks about using Twitter

Bottom line for me is that Twitter as a personal learning network is faster and easier than blog reading or blog posting. Twitter is experiential; you have to use it and use it frequently in order to understand the benefits.

The use or nonuse of social tools sparks Twitterstorm

Everyone is talking about, or should I say twittering about, the use of twitter and other social networking tools in the school setting. What do you think? Read this short but thought provoking article in School Library Journal.