Twitter How-To

We use twitter for several reasons in this class.

As a communications tool, we use it to share information openly as a group; to share blog posts; to share information about our guest speakers; and to ask and answer class or university-wide questions. (UK's weather alerts are always available via twitter, for example.)

As writers, we can look at writing as a muscle. So we exercise every day. Writing in 140 characters is one skill; writing blog posts is another; writing research reports is another; writing portfolio entries is another; and writing in your notebook, every day, develops a different area entirely.

Twitter also gets us out of the classroom and into a network of millions of writers, editors, and publishers. There are novelists and screenwriters and medical writers and magazine editors, and every other permutation. Choose who you follow. Engage with them.

At a minimum, follow your Instructor and follow your classmates. (There is a list at ProfessorAceKY labeled E306. It is on the right of the screen. Click on that and follow your fellow students.)

Here's a link to a Twitter overview:
http://www.jhische.com/twitter/