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Twitter apps and websites
Updated on 2009-11-17
Created on 2008-03-31
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"Here are 25 ways that teachers can use Twitter to ask for help, get lesson plan ideas, book and professional resource recommendations, connect with other professionals, and even host an online book club."
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Twitter has evolved into a great resource for news and current events. Luckily, it’s also a great resource for other important information, such as awesome teaching advice.
Thanks to an open API and a philosophy of interconnectivity, Twitter’s vast array of third-party services has you covered on a number of alternative uses for the famed microblogging tool.
Now you can create screencasts for your followers as easily as you tweet. Just click the record button and you’ll have your ready-to-tweet screencast in seconds.
Twitter has been the single best source of my 'professional development' as a 'retired' Teacher, but continuing early childhood educator. My Twitter Network has become my daily source of up-to-date educational information, strategies, techniques, websites, thoughts, questions and answers, ideas and laughs.
The following tips will help you know just how to get started using Twitter in academia, teach you etiquette, offer strategies and benefits, provide suggestions for specific ways to use Twitter, list tools to use with Twitter, and more.
Since joining Twitter in June 2007, I’ve met hundreds of interesting, helpful, and generally nice people on Twitter. Many of them are connected with science, they’re science tweeps, or to coin a phrase, scientwists.
Forty-four points from the editor of the MIT Technology Review.
I recently came across a video on TwiTip about Monica Rankin, a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, who was using Twitter in one of her classes this semester.
But on the education front in particular, some forward-thinking college professors are embracing it and finding ways to include it in courses, and teachers at the K-12 level are also experimenting with the social networking website. Using Twitter in a classroom setting can bring challenges, but some educators and students think it's a tool that can boost the learning process.
news journalism works best when it’s simple and direct, at least in the story’s lead sentences. And simplicity (and other tenets of good journalism — like brevity, and clarity, and immediacy) are now cornerstones of how many businesses, brands and individuals communicate on Twitter. Here’s how some of the mantras from my undergrad days now inform the best tweets.
what you share on Twitter is not just about the actual value of the content. It’s also about whether the content gets viewed and appreciated in the first place.
There's no better time to start utilizing Twitter integration tools than right now. Here are 10 of the most useful ways to start turning your site readers (or your client's customer base) into Twitter followers, and vice versa.
About a year ago, I offered up a Feed Reading Strategy: Skim, Scan and Save. After a year, it's time to start sharing, because sharing information has become a habitude for the 21st century literacy. It's a combination of communication and collaboration. But who has time? We do if done smartly.
Here's how I do the 4 S' on Twitter (though I can do the same with Google Reader too).
Never read a twiller? Having twissues with your twerminology? Welcome, then, to the unforgivable abuse of the English language that some call Twitterspeak.
Anyone who works with fast moving technology knows that there is always a new shiny tool that gets all the attention.
Web celebrities and gadget gurus keep their followers up to date in 140 characters or less
40 items | 42 visits
Twitter apps and websites
Updated on 2009-11-17
Created on 2008-03-31
Category: Computers & Internet
URL: