Researching+with+Twitter

=**Lesson Collaborative Note taking using** **Twitter**=

**Learning Intentions:**
Create Twitter accounts and use #ABCICT as a hashtag to follow the discussion. Use Twitter to record the nuggets of info found, links and reflections, add followers and follow people from the group. Link Diigo accounts to Twitter.

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More about Twitter



 * 1) **Create your account at Twitter**
 * 2) **Search out others in the class, ABCICT and ABCLRC and follow them.**

*When someone follows you look very carefully at who they are by reading their profile, before making the decision to allow them to follow you and/or to follow them.

**3. Try searching out different topics including your research topic in Twitter.**

**4. Open our class Diigo Group and read through the annotations, comments and sticky notes of others.**

**5. Find different "nuggets" of information and tweet them.**

*We are to use the //**hashtag**// #abcict to follow each others posts today. You will need to insert **#abcict** somewhere in your tweet(post) in order for it to be searched using the hashtag.

=**Plenary:** Certain websites allow you to post to twitter directly. Diigo is one of them.=


 * For HOMEWORK this week you must link your Diigo account to Twitter, and add some bookmarks to Diigo..


 * You can go back and search out the hastag to delve back into the research tweets done by the class.

**Tweet photos**
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 * You can also tweet pictures by using either

TweetDeck
This app can be linked to your twitter and facebook account and used to post updates to both. It also allows you to add columns, so you can see direct messages, searches, mentions and more on one screen.

Some of the options TweetDeck offers are: