Purpose of this deck:

1. Encourage the use of Twitter in Education.
2. Show the benefits of building your PLN.
3. Give quality information as you support other professionals.

Feel free to join me in my PLN.

I follow #edtech, #gamification, #k12, #oredu, #elearnning, #highered and #orvsd.

Twitter started in 2006.

As of Fall '13,

1 billion users
36 billion unique tweets = 307 tweet average/ person
5700 tweets/ sec

Largest demographic- 18-29 year olds
No disparity among ethnic or socioeconomic groups (Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, January 2014)

This doesn't mean that Twitter users are narcissistic.

http://edutech4teachers.edublogs.org/files/2014/04/the-selfie-phenomenon-1r...

Notice what one of the most popular #hashtags of the day had been.

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/464555121142423552/photo/1

#BringBackOurGirls is one hashtag influencing change.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michelle-obama-bringbackourgirls.jpg

There are over 20,000 hashtags that relate to education.

For more information on Weekly Twitter Chat Times in Education, see the following link curated by @thomascmurray , @cevans5095 and @cybraryman1.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiftIdjCeWSXdDRLRzNsVktUUGJpRW...

Just looking at the top stories can give plenty of information on what is trending and working.

Recent check yielded:
* Resource for the Underground Railroad and strategies for teaching the history

* Google image search techniques

* PocketLab wins Yale contest

* Using an iPad when grading and adding voice comments

* Emotion Wheel for expressive/ extended writing

Many studies have found that the following trends are apparent.

* Monday through Friday are the most active days.

* Most active time is about 11 am to 3 pm EST

* Mobile devices being the more popular tool
* TweetDeck, TwitterFon and Twitterfeed being popular non-Twitter publishing tools.




For more information, follow this link.
https://www.sysomos.com/docs/Inside-Twitter-BySysomos.pdf

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