November 7, 2010
Blog ArchivesTwitter search terms – hashtags for learning and training professionals
Try searching Twitter using the hashtags below to see some of the interesting information and insights being shared by learning professionals each day on Twitter.
Searching for and finding useful learning and training information on Twitter
If you are new to Twitter and would like to find tweets on a subject that interests you, there are a few different ways to find them. This article will cover searching with hashtags or keywords and saving those searches for future use. The next article on this subject will explore using an alerts service to … Continue Reading
The magnifying power of the Re-Tweet (RT)
If you post something that your Twitter followers find particularly useful, they will share it out to their followers using a function called ReTweet (abbreviated as RT). This article covers both how to RT a tweet you like – and what happens when someone RTs one of your tweets. How to ReTweet Assuming you are … Continue Reading
Practical Applications of Research: Twitter for Learning Survey Results
The Responses fall into three major groups: How we (learning professionals) are using Twitter in general; how we use Twitter for teaching and learning; and workplace awareness and attitudes toward Twitter.
Practical Applications of Research: Using Twitter for learning. Can we? Should we? How?
This issue of PAR gathers up some of the recent ideas and anecdotes offered by our peers in the field as a means of opening a healthy discussion about using Twitter, or other microblogging tools, to facilitate always-on collaborative learning.














