If you wish to learn how to create a Twitter account and how to get things going, here are a few quick steps.
1) Access the Twitter homepage http://www.twitter.com/
2) Select the Get Started icon and complete with your details.
3) You can skip the page in which you search for friends. You can do this later.
4) Once you’ve created you twitter account, be sure to access Settings in order to add details such as your bio, then access the Notices to determine your reply settings and so on. Don’t forget to add your photo or any other picture. You can also eventually alter the design of your Twitter page.
5) All that’s left is to find people you’d like to twitter with and happy Twittering!
Showing posts with label twitter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label twitter. Show all posts
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Thursday, 7 May 2009
Getting started
The objective of this blog is to share with you some of my experiments and findings related to technology in the EFL classroom. I have a great interest in all things technological, but I must confess I'm not by nature a very tech savy person. But I can't help feeling there are so many tools we could start using effectively in the classroom that the idea of this blog arose as a way of showing other teachers that even less technologically-minded people can acutally use technological resources effectively and it's not too difficlt to pick things up if you have a go.
So one of the first things I'd like to share with you all is the great importance of trying things out for yourself. I decided to start off my experimentation by associating my Twitter account (http://twitter.com/)with my Facebook to see how the dynamics of this partnership happened. Funny thing Twitter! Who said it was only for media craving stars!!! The idea behind this micro-blogging social network is that your messages are limited to 140 characters - how perfect! It helps us to be concise, to the point and send pics, tweets, urls and other links quickly to whoever is following us. It can be informative, or a fun way to share thoughts, feelings etc.
Once you have your own Twitter account, as well as following your own friends and colleagues, how about following other EFL experts such as Jeremy Harmer (http://twitter.com/Harmerj) or Scott Thornbury (http://twitter.com/thornburyscott)?
The next few posts will look into pedagogical possibilities using Twitter.
So one of the first things I'd like to share with you all is the great importance of trying things out for yourself. I decided to start off my experimentation by associating my Twitter account (http://twitter.com/)with my Facebook to see how the dynamics of this partnership happened. Funny thing Twitter! Who said it was only for media craving stars!!! The idea behind this micro-blogging social network is that your messages are limited to 140 characters - how perfect! It helps us to be concise, to the point and send pics, tweets, urls and other links quickly to whoever is following us. It can be informative, or a fun way to share thoughts, feelings etc.
Once you have your own Twitter account, as well as following your own friends and colleagues, how about following other EFL experts such as Jeremy Harmer (http://twitter.com/Harmerj) or Scott Thornbury (http://twitter.com/thornburyscott)?
The next few posts will look into pedagogical possibilities using Twitter.
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