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 * Lesson Overview:** Social Media is an ever growing professional development tool, but used in the wrong way can be an educators nightmare.


 * Lesson Objective(s):**
 * 1) What is social media
 * 2) Issues with social media
 * Social Media in Education
 * Why We Need to Teach Social Media
 * 1) Creating a Twitter account
 * 2) People to follow

1. Twelve Reasons to Get Your School Tweeting this Summer 2. Watch the Common Craft video "Social Media in Plain English" 3. Twitter in Education
 * Background Information:**

__**Twitter**__

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Twitter in Plane English Twitter Help Center

100 Ways To Use Twitter In Education How To Integrate Live Tweets Into Your Presentation Top 10 Twitter Accounts Follow For Education Technology 28 Simple Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom The Complete Guide to Twitter Hashtags for Education Twitter Dangerously Irrelevant

__Recommended Users__: [|web20classroom] - Steven Anderson, [|coolcatteacher] - Vicki Davis NMHS_Principal - Eric Sheninger [|Larryferlazzo] - Larry Ferlazzo [|kellyhines] - Kelly Hines [|rmbyrne] – Richard Byrne russeltarr - Russel Tarr [|paulawhite] - Paula White [|digitalmaverick] – Digital Maverick rkiker - Rich Kiker kristenswanson - Kristen Swanson Web20guru - Cheryl Capozzoli tomwhitby - Tom Whitby shellterrell - Shelly Terrell willrich45 - Will Richardson __<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">cmt1 __ - Carol Tonhauser

Hashtags : helping you find interesting Tweets <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">People use the hashtag symbol # <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">before relevant keywords in their Tweet to categorize those Tweets to show more easily in Twitter Search. **Example:** Below, @VegNews added the hashtag before the word "vegan" in their message. The word is now a link to search results for all Tweets containing "#vegan" in the message. Using hashtags **Further Discovery and Reading**
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Clicking on a hashtagged word in any message shows you all other Tweets in that category.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Hashtags can occur anywhere in the Tweet.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Hashtagged words that become very popular are often Trending Topics.
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 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">If Tweet with a hashtag on a public account, anyone who does a search for that hashtag may find your Tweet.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Don't #spam #with #hashtags. Don't over-tag a single Tweet. ( <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0084b4; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">[|Best practices] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">recommend using no more than 3 hashtags per Tweet.)
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Use hashtags only on Tweets relevant to the topic.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">The third party site ** [|hashtags.org] **offers an overview of popular hashtags used on Twitter. Find out about trends, look at small, pretty graphs, and search to see if the hashtags of your fantasies exist.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #555555; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">You may also want to read [|this article about hashtags], which appeared in The New Yorker magazine.

__**Recommended Hashtags**__: //**#Edchat, #Edtech, #followfriday, #pateach, #ipadchat, #edadmin**// Other Educational hashtags and Information 20 Twitter Hashtags Every Teacher Should Know About Why Most People Fail at Hashtags and How to Fix It- Likeable Media "The Most Complete Twitter Application List Available"

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