Twitter+for+Teachers_Building+PLNS

=**Training Agenda **=

Director of Digital Literacy and Citizenship || Director of Digital Literacy and Citizenship || Creating a Twitter account that they know how to access. ||
 * || == Course Title: == || ==iLearnNYC: Twitter for Teachers: 5 Steps to Building PLNs==
 * URL for this page: http://tinyurl.com/iLearnNYCTwitter ** ||
 * || == Dates and Locations: == || November 5 at 2:20 pm ||
 * || == Additional Info: == || * **Please bring your own DOE laptop device to the training session** ||
 * || == Course Creator: == || Lisa Nielsen
 * || == Course Instructor: == || Lisa Nielsen
 * || == Course Goal(s): == || **Participants will know how to build a personal learning network to support professional growth using Twitter.** ||
 * || == Course Objectives: == || **As result of this training, participants will be able to:**
 * explain what a PLN is
 * understand why PLNs are important
 * follow a hashtag
 * understand how to participate in an edchat
 * use a service to aggregate Tweets ||
 * || == Prerequisite Training: == || **Before attending this training, participants must have completed:**
 * Time |||| = Session Agenda = ||
 * 00:00 || Step 1 - Consider
 * What is a PLN? || media type="custom" key="23909656"

Big Ideas media type="custom" key="24317248" Note: Twitter - Poll *space* 790492 message Text - 790492 *space* message
 * We connect via ideas rather than by chance of physical space.
 * A chance to meet minds before faces.
 * Help build learning networks for students too.
 * [[file:Twitter with Second Graders - 2013.ppt]] ||
 * 00:10 || Step 2 - Consider
 * Why is this important? || Your why

My why media type="custom" key="24316482" ||
 * 00:20 || Step 3 - Consume
 * Follow hashtags || media type="custom" key="23960006"

Hashtag most likely to follow media type="custom" key="24317258"

Read some Tweets of the one that received the most votes. Here's how: media type="custom" key="23910090" Which chat are you most likely to participate in? media type="custom" key="24317266"
 * Read them via [|Tagboard]
 * Example school tagboard: []
 * Other [|possible hashtags], [|more from Cybraryman] ||
 * 00:35 || Step 4 - Converse
 * With Tweeps || Twitter lets you converse with those you would never historically have had access to.
 * Reply to a Tweet. Tag the person you are replying to.
 * Look at your @Connect to see if anyone has replied to you or tagged you. ||
 * 00:40 || Step 5 - Chat
 * Discover what an EdChat is
 * Participate in a chat || Chat with the Secretary of Education.
 * Read Tweets of the most popular chat.
 * [|TwitterFall]
 * Lists of other chats: [|The Journal], [|Cybraryman] ||
 * 00:55 || == Course Evaluation: == || ====Please take time to complete the iLearnNYC professional development survey. Your feedback is important to us.==== ||
 * 00:60 || == Adjourn == ||  ||
 * || == Course Resources: == || Additional learning:
 * [|The Power of Twitter Chats (30 mins)]
 * [|How strong is your PLN] ||