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Twitter Cheat Sheet

for Educators

by Dr. Kimberly Tyson

Twitter 101—Key Terms

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Twitter—an online social networking platform that allows users to send and receive text-based message, or “tweets.”

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Tweets—text-based messages of up to 140 characters (letters, symbols, words, spaces, & punctuation.)

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@—a way of referring to another user, for example, my username is @tysonkimberly

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Twitter Feed—the running list of tweets

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RT—A retweet - or RT - is when you share the tweet of one user with all of your Twitter followers.

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MT—a retweet that’s been modified or edited in some way

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Reply—when you directly respond to a specific user beginning with their username

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DM—direct message—You can only direct message to someone you follow. You can preface your tweet with DM @tysonkimberly, for

example.

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Follower—Users that you follow on Twitter. On Twitter, following is not necessarily a two-way street. You can follow users and they may

or may not choose to follow you.

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Hashtags—A hashtag (#) is a word or phrase preceded by a “#.” By using hashtags, you can aggregate tweets around that topic. Hashtags

(#) help you focus on tweets around a specific topic. You can also add a hashtag to any tweet. Just follow the tweet with an appropriate

hashtag and it will appear in the group. For example, here’s a recent tweet with hashtags—It’s Terrific Tuesday! What are you reading

today? #elemteachers #literacy #reading

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Sometimes groups meet at a specific time around a hashtag. For example, folks meet around the hashtag #titletalk once a month on Sun-

day nights at 8 pm EST. Colby Sharp and Donalyn Miller moderate the online meetings around a topic such as favorite read alouds, graphic

novels, teaching with short texts, or book lists, to name just a few. So when you log in at that time and type in the hashtag, you’ll

experience an online conversation around the topic.

Hashtags for Education

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If you’re new to Twitter or you haven’t bothered with hashtags, this list should be a handy reference tool. It is by no means

comprehensive; however, it should give you a running start for where to join in on conversations and information about education. Many

of the chat groups have a moderator/s and meet at specific times each week or month and focus conversations around a specific topic.

Top 5 Most

Reading/Literacy

Education

Project-Based

Chat Groups

Education...

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Tweeted

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#literacy

#K12

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#pbl

#ece

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#blendchat

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#education

#reading

#education

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#pblchat

#bullying

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#satchat

(admin)

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#edchat

#ncte

#highered

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#schooldistricts

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#edchat

Curriculum

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#edtech

#titletalk

#educators

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#school

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#21stedchat

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#books

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#college

#nerdybookclub

#administrators

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#schoolreform

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#engchat

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#literature

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#highered

#edadmin

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#edreform

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#ntchat

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#math

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#principals

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#atplc

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Technology

#cpchat

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#science

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Homeschool

#cpchat

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#gifted

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#mlearning

#tlcchat

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#ArtsEd

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#homeschool

#teachers

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#librarians

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#flipclass

#mathchat

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#unschool

#elemteachers

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#lessonplans

College

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#iPaded

#spedchat

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#hw

#ntchat

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#collegebound

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#EdApps

#gtchat

CommonCore

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#homeschoolers

#STEM

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#collegechat

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#edtech

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#ptchat

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#commoncore

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#highschool

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#ACT/#SAT

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#elearning

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#cpchat

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#ccchat

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#ELL

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scholarship

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#tlchat

Twitter 102: Tools for Advanced Users

You may quickly find that you enjoy twitter and benefit professionally from the interaction, pd opportunities, connections, and more. You may

want a management system that helps you organize tweets, have several streams open at a time, and more. Here’s a few to check out.

HootSuite:

Twitter manager. Easy-to-use interface

TweetDeck:

Similar to HootSuite, TweetDeck is

SproutSocial

on desktop & mobile. Up to 10 streams open at a

Twitter manager. Desktop. Mobile App. Easy to use.

RavenTools

time. Can add other social media platforms.

Schedule tweets. Have numerous streams open at

Pluggio

Schedule tweets. My personal choice.

one time.

MarketMeSuite

more free resources at

Twitter Cheat Sheet For Educators

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