Take 140 characters, put them in a blender and mix for eight years. That’s the secret recipe behind Twitter, the social networking powerhouse celebrating a birthday. Whether you’re an addict, a casual tweeter or still a skeptic, Twitter has grown …
Presentation of the Week: Using Twitter in Academic Teaching
The Must-Have Guide To Twitter Manners
In an effort to keep your Twitter manners properly set up and to make sure you know which part of Twitter is useful for a particular type of question or conversation, check out this visual guide.
http://www.edudemic.com/must-guide-twitter-manners/
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3 Free Tools to Manage Who You Follow on Twitter
If the list of accounts you follow on Twitter has gotten a little unruly over the years, we can help. We’re highlighting three useful tools that will allow you to analyze and manage the accounts you follow to improve your …
4 Important Tools to Track and Organize Educational Twitter Hashtags
If it happens that you want to start participating in educational Twitter chats, below are some practical web tools to help you stay updated about the things shared in these chats. You can also use them to organize your hashtags …
How to Use Twitter to Become an Expert on Any Topic
Sometimes you need to quickly immerse yourself in a new field. You might want to gain expertise or quickly gauge what the current issues are around a particular topic. One way of doing this is by creating a dedicated Twitter …
How Twitter has made me a New Teacher
The other day I managed to pass a couple of Twitter milestones, 500 followers and 3000 tweets, and I made me really stop and think about how this thing that many of us use named Twitter has affected my life …
How Twitter is Reinventing Collaboration Among Educators
Many educators say that Twitter is the most effective way to collaborate and that they’ve learned more with Twitter than they have from years of formal professional development. Here are some of the specific ways educators are using Twitter to …
10 Reasons Twitter Works In Education
See why Twitter could be a valuable tool for your classes.
https://www.teachthought.com/technology/10-reasons-twitter-works-in-education/…
ScreenTweet – Awesome Twitter Tool
ScreenTweet shares videos, pictures, screen shots, and images on Twitter
12 Twitter Tools Every Educator Must Know about
The thing about Twitter is that, while it has a huge potential in education, yet many teachers and educators ignore the great arsenal of tools that can be used to get the maximum out of this tool. It is no …
Why Twitter and Facebook could be Good instructional tools
I think that social media could be Dr. Jeckyll or Mr. Hyde depending upon the use. I believe that almost any site could be used in positive ways for teaching. We should never settle for the new tool as automatically …
Why Twitter and Facebook Are Not Good Instructional Tools
If it’s simple—even mindless—to use or create with new technology, then we must question the pedagogical value of what we are doing.
http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2012/05/30/fp_barnwell.html…
How Bottlenose Can Help Turn Twitter into a High Signal Channel
Bottlenose is an application that will convert Twitter into a personalized dashboard and newspaper.
Teaching With Twitter Visualizations
Twitter is on the leading edge of breaking news, sharing resources, and inspiring educators. Take a look on these great Twitter visualization tools for your class.
http://theasideblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/teaching-with-twitter-visualizations.html…