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Twitter
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Tool: Twitter
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Overview of tool including what it can do, how it works, how it's been used in classes, etc.
Other Twitter-like tools include
- Yammer - think Twitter for groups
- Edmodo - microblogging meets file-sharing and online class tools
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Twitter Badge
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Example Uses
- teacher and students use twitter to stay in contact
- teacher uses twitter to update students on upcoming assignments, etc.
- students track topics in twitter relevant to their class topic
Benefits
- helps strengthen learning community
- provides world-wide perspectives on topics
- gives learners & teachers another communic
Tutorials
3rd Part Apps to Expand Twitter Power
- iTweet new interface for twitter - sign in with twitter account, use hashtags, great search
- TweetTake one-click backup all your twitter data - tweets, followers, favorites, and friends
- Twitzu invites w/ single-click rsvp for twitter
- TwitterDumpr dump tweets to a database
News about Twitter in Education
- Using Twitter as an Education Tool (SEM, Sep. 25, 2008)
- Twittering, Not Frittering: Professional Development in 140 Characters (Edutopia, Oct 13, 2008)
- Twitter for Academia (Academic Hack, Jan 23, 2008)
- Twitter Tweets for Higher Ed (Web 2.0 Teaching Tools, August 19, 2007)
- Why We Twitter (eBiquity, August 12, 2007)
See Twitterholics http://www.twitterholics.com and the Twitter Wiki for more!
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