Day 6 of #YSJ10DoT: Retweeting
You’ve sent a few tweets over the last five days – hopefully you’ve found plenty in your everyday routine which would be of interest to others, whether they’re your peers, other professions within or...
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Day 5 of #YSJ10DoT: Tweeting Media and Polls
We started tweeting on Day 2 and covered how to include URLs to other websites in tweets. Including signposts to other content is one way of making your tweets more attractive and engaging –...
Day 4 of #YSJ10DoT: @Replies, Mentions and Direct Messaging
You’ve sent some tweets, followed people and hopefully gained some followers of your own. Some people prefer to listen more than they tweet, which is fine – the only thing to consider is, the...
Day 3 of #YSJ10DoT: Following People
You’ve sent your first tweets, creating interesting and engaging content for your potential followers. The other side to Twitter is the stream of information brought to you by the people that you follow. And if you...
Day 2 of #YSJ10DoT: Sending Tweets
What to tweet? Twitter only allows you to send 140 characters, which doesn’t seem much when we are used to writing at length about complex ideas. That doesn’t mean that Twitter is superficial or...
Day 1 of #YSJ10DoT: Creating and personalising your Twitter account
Hello! And welcome to the 2017 iteration of 10 Days of Twitter! To start off with, you’ll need to sign up to Twitter. You can see people’s tweets without an account, by viewing their...
Introducing the #YSJ10DoT Game for 2017!
Introduction to the #YSJ10DoT game! 10 Days of Twitter, or #YSJ10DoT, starts on Monday 27th February 2017, so there are still a few days left to sign up if you want to participate along with other...
10 Days of Twitter #YSJ10DoT – Coming Soon!
Ever wondered if Twitter might be a useful tool for enhancing your teaching & learning, or developing your personal learning network? Not sure how to get started, or how it all works? Welcome to...
Learn with Lynda: Twitter Chats
This month Learn with Lynda is spotlighting the Organising Twitter Chats a new 51 minute course from Brian Honigman. You will need to be familiar with Twitter to be able to benefit from this...
TEL Me About Content Curation Tools – workshop write-up.
On Wednesday 25 January we ran a TEL Me About workshop on using online content curation tools and how content curation can be seen as a core competency when it comes to Digital Capability....