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Blogging Vs. Microblogging: Twitter's Global Growth Flattens, While WordPress' Picks Up
A Tech crunch article about stats that debunk the argument about microblogging being expected to surpass blogging in popularity within a few years from inception.
Screenr - Create screencasts and screen recordings the easy way
Create screen recordings via a web-based tool. The videos can be played on the web or iPhone, so they are great for adding to your tweets. You must have Twitter account though and all screencasts are public.
Twitter for Libraries (and Librarians)
Article that discusses the relevance of twitter for libraries and gives examples of how some libraries are using it.
Education 2.0 - Edmodo - Free Private Microblogging For Education
A private microblogging platform that teachers and students can use to send notes, links, files, alerts, assignments, and events to each other. Teachers sign up for accounts, and then create groups. Students then sign up (no email address required) and join the group using the unique code.
Wired Campus: Religion 101, in 140 Characters - Chronicle.com
Stephen Prothero is helping world religions make their way onto Twitter this summer, one 140-character tweet at a time. The Boston University professor of religion is treating his account, sprothero, like a microcourse, posting several tweets on each of what he identifies as the eight major world religions: Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Daoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the Yoruba tradition, which Mr. Prothero calls the “neglected world religion” from West Africa
Can we use Twitter for educational activities?
Twitter is the most popular microblogging application.Posts are limited to 140 text characters in length. With experience in using Web2.0 technologies in education, the authors are trying to provide arguments for using Twitter as microblogging platform / social network in education, underlining its advantages, but also possible bad points.
ShoutEm - Roll your own Microblogging Social Networking
Roll your own Microblogging Social Network. Teachers and Schools could use this to setup K-12 PLNs.
AudioBoo
Interesting app that allows for mobile podcasting. You can use an iPhone and this free application/web service AudioBoo to share some observations from the field! This is live-blogging at its best. You can insert an image and it also creates a google map of location where audioboo is recorded.
Education 2.0 - The Edmodo Blog - Free Private Microblogging for Teachers & Students
Edmodo is a free, private micoblogging service for teachers and students. Teachers can share notes, links, and files. Teachers can also send alerts, events, and assignments. Discusses Horizon report and the tools mentioned in the report include Twitter, Skype.
Twitter Blog
News from the Twitter microblogging platform including service updates, developments, applications, plus handy tricks and tips to help you get more out of Twitter.
Learning with 'e's: Teaching with Twitter
Interesting post on E-Learning Blog - written by Steve Wheeler at the University of Plymouth - with examples of how twitter can be used in educational environment. Particularly like the notion of summarising article in 140 words
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The toolbox allows you to manage mulitple twitter accounts, pre-schedule tweets and measure the success of tinyurls
5 Twitter Applications and Tools that Made Me a Better Twitter User in 2008
A list of 5 tools that have enhanced theuse of Twitter in 2008
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