[EdSurge Podcast] Teachers Are Going Viral on TikTok. Is That a Good Thing?

ISTE Standards: Preparing students for the digital age

 

18 Twitter Terms: How to Use Twitter for Beginners (by Jackie)

18 Twitter Terms  to Know:

1. Engagement – To be engaging is to create conversations (talking, listening, and sharing) and meaningful relationships on Twitter or other social networks. Engagement creates human relationships online that may continue to be nurtured online and/or go offline. Engagement is the essence of what makes a businesses social media presence successful.
2. Tweet – “Tweet” can be both a verb or a noun. It is your update typed in the “What’s happening?” status bar to the people who are following you, in 140 characters or less. A person who Tweets can be called a Tweeter.
3. Follow / Following – These are all the people that you are following, and whose updates you will see on your home page. To follow someone on Twitter, just  hit the “follow” button.
4. Followers – These are all the people on Twitter that are following you and are seeing your updates on their homepage. If you are following someone, it doesn’t necessarily mean they will follow you back. Attracting the right followers is just as important as what you are tweeting.
5. Replies – The @ sign is used in the beginning of a tweet to reply to someone.  Only the person you are replying to or people that follow both of you will see the reply.
6. Mentions – When you mention @ and a person’s Twitter name anywhere else except in the very beginning of a tweet,  everyone who follows you will see it. Both replies and mentions become links to that person’s twitter profile.
7. Retweet / RT –  Since Twitter is about sharing information, a retweet makes it easy for you to share someone else’s tweet to your followers.  Retweets give the original tweeter credit for the tweet with “RT @username “, and can be retweeted in it’s original format or with comments from the person retweeting, if space allows.
8. # / Hashtag – People use hashtags on Twitter to make them easily searchable on a specific topic.  They are often simple keywords  but can also be unique phrases or acronyms that allow people to follow a trending conversation.
9. URL Shortener – When you want to include website addresses in  your tweet, you will probably want to use a URL (website address) shortener so it does not take up  your 140 characters.  Although Twitter does try to shorten the link for you, it may be better to try a URL shortener like Tiny URL or Bit.ly to give you more space for re-tweets.
10. Follow Friday / FF – #FF or #Followfriday is a hashtag used  with @mentions to suggest to their followers which other interesting people they should follow.
11. Direct Message / DM – This is a private message that only the person you are sending it to can see. It still can only be 140 characters. You can not send a DM to a person who does not follow you but you can reply to them.
12. Home / Timeline / Feed – This is where you will see the constant real-time status updates from the people you are following.
13. Trends / Trending Topic – Current events or popular topics that are being talked about the most at any given time can be seen in “Trending”.
14. Avatar – Your profile picture or image that you use to identify yourself and tie to your twitter account is your avatar.  If you don’t upload an picture, it will default as an egg graphic.
15. Favorite – You can click the “star” icon next to any tweet to indicate that it is one of your favorites, for easy reference later. Others can  view  your list of favorite tweets also.
16. Username / Handle – “Handle” refers to your specific URL on Twitter, so for instance my Twitter username is @jkaufenberg and my twitter handle is http://twitter.com/jkaufenberg. You can make your username be anything you want, as long as it is not already taken and it is 15 characters or less.  A username on Twitter  has an @ before it and becomes a link to that persons Twitter profile.
17. Listed / Lists – You can create lists and add people on Twitter to group them into categories.  You can also see who has placed you on their lists, when you click on “listed” on your profile.
18. Searches – If you are searching for a specific topic, username, or hashtag, you can enter the word or phrase in the search bar, and see the most recent tweets with the phrase. From there, you can better define your search or save your search for future reference.
    

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This is your instructor!

Hi everyone! My name is Hajeen Choi and I am a doctoral student at Instructional Systems and Learning Technology. I am originally from Seoul, South Korea. I studied Educational Technology for my B.A and M.A at Ewha Womans University in Korea, and also studied MBA at Duke University. I worked for about 15 years at an AOL-like portal company, IT consulting firm, business management consulting firm, and an English education company before coming to FSU. Currently, I am interested in student engagement in online learning, sense of belonging and othering, and social media in education. I hope to do more research on these topics and defend my prospectus this semester. On a personal note, I have two boys, almost 13 and 17 1/2 years old. My older one used to play baseball at Chiles high school and my younger played at Meridian Park. However, now they are playing games at home! Ugh... During the winter break, we went to Seoul to see our family. Here are some pictures from the east sea of Korea. I hope all of you had a wonderful winter break and ready for spring semester. In this class, you must have teacher mindsets while taking this course. I look forward to seeing you all on our live zoom session!