twitterlution

Leadership ||
 * How is Twitter changing education politics, world events, and local advocacy? A wide-ranging discussion of the ways Twitter has provided more transparency by enabling more grass-roots reporting and access to information, how that changes the 'rules' and what it means for educators and our own advocacy efforts. How can the twitter-lution help you? ||
 * **2/7/2012 1:30 PM -2:14 PM** ||
 * **Format -** Academy Breakout Session ||
 * **Duration -** 50-minute ||
 * **Tracks-**
 * **Room Number-** Room 410

[|TCEA Presentation on Prezi]

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media type="custom" key="12286554" || "It's very hard to keep a secret, to keep people from communicating whatever they see," says Mr. Espuelas. "Therefore, the very simple tools of repression" – silence and secrecy – "are no longer operative." Christian Science Monitor

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History of Twitter and uses
http://watchmojo.com/index.php?id=10410

TED Talk [|By Evan Williams]

Questions?
[|Does social media start revolutions, organize them, or reflect them?]

[|Twitter and the quiet education revolution--can grassroots voices change things?]

Focusing uses of Twitter:
MBTeamS

The MBTeamS story: []

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media type="youtube" key="hK0VPjWeCf8" height="315" width="560" [|Positive use of Twitter by school districts for publicizing information]:

[|Twitter connecting grassroots in national politics/President]

[|Twittering from school board meetings by journalists]:

[|Twittering from school board meetings by parents]

Following school news with hashtags: [|https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23AISD] [|https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23txlege]

[|Rallying educators with twitter]

[|Positive use of Twitter by school districts for publicizing information]:

What we can learn from[| Stephen Colbert]

Twitter 4 Good--TWEET strategy https://twitter.com/#!/search/twitter4good 1. Target 2. Write 3. Engage (reach) 4. Explore (influencers) 5. Tracking results

Advocacy:
TCEA advocacy https://twitter.com/#!/TCEAadvocacy