This evening as part of my webinar about blogs and social media for teachers I gave a short demonstration of the difference between an “@” message and a direct message. As a part of that demo I posted and “@” message to Steven Anderson in which I asked him to share a tip for teachers new to using Twitter. Steven replied quickly as did a few other folks who offered some good tips. I’ve embedded those Tweets below.
@rmbyrne Get organized. Use a client like Tweetdeck to view lists, save tweets and make things easier. And…
— Steven W. Anderson (@web20classroom) January 28, 2015
@rmbyrne Find a hashtag to follow. Check out the Twitter Chat list for some good ones that will be ultravaluable to you.
— Steven W. Anderson (@web20classroom) January 28, 2015
@web20classroom @rmbyrne I agree. TweetDeck is indispensable. Also, follow #edchat for great people to follow
— David Andrade (@daveandcori) January 28, 2015
@rmbyrne @web20classroom find chats that pique your interest, follow them and build up the courage to tweet into them and never look back
— Don Miller (@dmiller212001) January 28, 2015
@rmbyrne @web20classroom Been starting people w http://t.co/1G64PsCwp1 & Clipboard. Follow topic, then people, then engage.
— Beth Holland (@brholland) January 28, 2015
