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In every content area and grade level and in schools of varying sizes and from
different geographic locations, educators are actively reflecting on
instruction, challenging assumptions, questioning policies, offering advice,
designing solutions, and learning together. And all this collective knowledge is
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Twitter to encourage freeflowing just-in-time interactions and how these interactions can enhance social presence

In 140 characters or less, people share ideas and resources, ask and answer questions, and collaborate on problems of practice; in a recent study, researchers found that the main communication intentions of people participating in Twitter could be categorized as daily chatter, conversations, sharing resources/URLs, and reporting news (Java et al., 2007). Twitter community members post their contributions via the Twitter website (see Figure 1), mobile phone, email, and instant messaging - making Twitter a powerful, convenient, community-controlled micro sharing environment (Brapeau, 2009). Bepending on whom you choose to follow (i.e., communicate with) and who chooses to follow you, Twitter can be effectively used for professional and social networking (Brapeau, 2009; Thompson, 2007) because it can connect people with like interests (Lucky, 2009). And all of this communication happens in real-time, so the exchange of information is immediate (Parry, 2008a; Young, 2008).