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Anne Bubnic's List: Digital Citizenship/Twitter in Education
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Apr 18, 09
Cracking Dante’s Inferno is a tough row to hoe for any high school student—but what if the reading assignment was conducted via Twitter?
The exercise “Twitter in Hell” was handed to some lucky seniors at University Laboratory High School at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, after reading the classic tome. Their mission? To write 140-character tweets describing each level in hell as if they were Dante writing to his beloved Beatrice. -
Apr 08, 09
Researchers at IBM and MIT have found that certain e-mail connections and patterns at work correlate with higher revenue production
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Researchers at IBM and MIT have found that certain e-mail connections and patterns at work correlate with higher revenue production
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Mar 27, 09
Surgeons 'Tweet' From Operating Room During Brain Surgery
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Mar 11, 09
Websites such as Facebook and Twitter are fuelling an epidemic of online bullying, it was claimed today. Research has found one in three British children has been the victim of abuse on the internet.
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Jul 22, 08
You've gotta love this: A Twitter digital story created by 140 Elementary and Middle School Students Across the Globe!
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Jun 14, 08
How useful can communication limited to 140 characters be for serious journalism? It turns out that the short messages you find on Twitter have proven wildly useful for some writers penning larger pieces.<br><br>Could there be some classroom applications here?<br><br>
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May 09, 08
AAmid all the initiatives in which Internet companies are supposed to make friends with each other—such as Facebook’s Platform and Google’s rival OpenSocial initiative—the announcement today by MySpace may well be the most useful to ordinary people and thus the most important: Users will be able to share their MySpace profile with other sites. MySpace has a good list of initial sites that will use some version of this feature: Yahoo, eBay, PhotoBucket, and yes Twitter.
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May 07, 09
UT Dallas History Professor Dr. Monica Rankin wanted to know how she could reach and include more students in the class discussion. She had heard of Twitter.The following is a short video describing her "Twitter Experiment" in the classroom with comments from students about the pros and cons of Twitter in a traditional learning environment.
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May 07, 09
To the Internet hipsters who discovered Twitter in 2006, Oprah's inaugural tweet - FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY, she typed - was the end of the era, the shark jump. But that's like saying the Beatles were over after they appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show."\nTwittermania has only begun. In the days after Oprah's show, Twitter's traffic growth is accelerating. The ratings service HitWise now ranks twitter.com as America's No. 38 Web site. It's about to rocket past CNN and Wells Fargo.
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May 01, 09
The official White House Blog calls it "WhiteHouse 2.0." The administration is unveiling its membership in a trio of the social-networking leaders today: Facebook, MySpace and Twitter
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Apr 25, 09
Another fine presentation by Tom Barrett
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