There are at least three ways that I use to search Twitter
and that's by author, hashtags or keywords, and I'll show you each.
So if I find an author that I like Neil Selwyn, for example, I'll put the full name in,
he comes up I'm going to click on his name and then I can go through his articles and like the
ones that I find are interesting or the messages is that I like that are interesting and all i have
to do is click on the heart so let me see here click on a few changing educational expectations
of the social web I like that one so I'm going to click like on that what that does is it records
alike so when I go back to my homepage it adds a like here and it keeps track of things that I like
it's sort of like a favorites the second thing I searched by and a lot of people use this is
a hashtag so for example I've used em learning here that stands for mobile learning and I can
see articles that have been posted there now maybe they're not research related so i could
add the word research so anytime that m learning the hashtag em learning has been posted with the
word research and so we have some articles here and i can take a look at them once I like I can
click on heart and keep track of that so that's my second way of searching now the one thing
is you might not know the hashtags to look for that's that could be initial an issue so let's
say I was looking for digital citizenship what I do is I go to google and i just type
in digital citizenship and then i put hashtag so what that does is a lot of kind individuals
here we have 10 digital citizen chip hashtags to join the conversation so i can click on those and
then i like to keep a record of these i keep a word file of the of not necessarily these ones
but this is a great set of hashtags for that topic and i can start looking them
up so for example if I want did sit I can go back here and I didn't know that one existed
makes sense because it's short click on it and here are the nine peas of digital citizenship
I like that one I'm going to click on it and the other thing you can do is you can click
on people that post messages that you like and if you see a pattern you could start to follow
those people the third way I use is actually particularly useful because I'm not always sure
of the hashtags or maybe there isn't a hashtag so I can search by keywords so for example what
if I wanted to look at math apps and research and here we go research on using map apps for
improving student learning exploratory study an inclusive fourth-grade class so I can like that so
that's how I search twitter for information that could be useful current information that could
be useful in my case for research areas but you can search all sorts of areas for your benefits