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Bloggging Networks for Reseach and Writing
We want you to leave this workshop with
 * something practical to do in your professional life
 * something you can do with your students on Monday at no extra charge

Blogging Networks for Research and Writing: What does one thing have to do with another?

Register
1. Register at [|http://www.twitter.com] media type="custom" key="624809"

3. Tweet - answer the question //What are you doing?// by describing: 4. Go to http://elggplans.wikispaces.com/teacher-to-teacher#toc7, edit the page, and enter your twitter name next to your name.
 * Why you are here
 * What you need
 * What you can give

Follow
5. Go to the tab or window that has twitter open and "follow" everyone in this workshop. 6. Respond to some of the tweets by learning to use @username (which does NOT make your tweet private)

Expanding Your Network
7. Now we want you to see the power of the Twitter network on a larger scale. 8. Go to either Paul or Susan's user and look at some of the recent content they have been seeing. What looks interesting and relevant to you? When you find something, click on that user's name. If the content looks interesting, FOLLOW that person. Try this a few times and add people as you find interesting content with a goal of finding 10 people to follow.

Discuss
9. Add one more tweet, answering this: //What value might Twitter have for you as a teacher?// 10. Let's discuss what value this might have for you as a teacher.
 * Where do you see research on Twitter?
 * Where do you see writing?

Youth Twitter
10. Now we want to focus on how you can bring some of this new social networking to your students. Go to [|http://www.youthtwitter.com.] 11. Let's discuss what is on the home page. 12. Where do you see research on Youth Twitter? Where do you see writing? What do you see happening here?

More about social networks and microblogging

 * Twitter page on Teach Web 2.0
 * [|Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging //Usage and Communities//] (PDF)
 * [|Social Networking, the "Third Place," and the Evolution of Communication]
 * [|Pew Internet: Teens and Social Media>]
 * [|Tumblr]

Workshop Participants
Paul Allison (East Bronx Academy for the Future) twitter user name: [|paulallison] Susan Ettenheim (Eleanor Roosevelt High School) twitter user name: [|susanettenheim] Noah Coston (Robert F. Wagner) twitter user name: [|ncoston] Teresa Devore (Lower Eastside Prep) twitter user name: [|teresaD] Janice Henry (MS 390) twitter user name: [|jhenry4] Carmen Malpica (Newcomers High School) twitter user name: [|carilsa54] Midge Maroni (HS Graphics & Comm Arts) twitter user name: [|Midgemaroni] Ruth Orlowicz (International HS at LCC) twitter user name: [|rorlowicz] Melisa Rivera (Middle College High School) twitter user name: [|melisar] Margaret Klinesmith (Lehman College) twitter user name: [|margklin] Julie Conason (NYC Writing Project) twitter user name: [|jeweliana] Ken Stein (Satelltie Academy High School) [|MisterKotter]