How teachers can use twitter to find resources

February 8, 2013 Kevin Cummins

Twitter is an excellent app for teachers to communicate about topics of interest and find relevant resources.

It has a great search feature built into it, but if you use it en the same manner as Google you might be a little disappointed. Today we are going to look at using Twitters search and advanced search function, and also workout the world of Hash tagging.

I am going to use twitter from the browser for this example but all the rules still apply for mobile devices too.

Twitter's search bar is located on the top left of your screen

When using search in twitter it views the phrase Lesson Plans as two individual words. You might still find what you are after, but if you use quotation marks around your search phrase such as "Lesson Plans" Twitter will search for that exact phrase.

When your results are returned you will see the following screen and we can then refine a little further. by refining the highlighted section. You can also save this search by clicking the cog on the top right.

Advanced search is one of Twitter's more useful tools and can also be found under the cog.

Advanced Search offers lot's of choices to refine your findings

There are a number of fields within advanced search that will allow you refine exactly what it is you are after and filter out the noise.

As you can see my maths lesson plan seach is really what I am after.

So what is this Hashtag thing?

Hash tags are reference points that people put at the end of their tweets to link them to a common discussion. For instance if you search the hash tag #teaching these are tweets that people want connected to discussions about teaching. So people like yourself can continue the discussion and discover them at a later date.

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How teachers can use twitter to find resources

So what is this Hashtag thing?

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