Monday, February 9, 2009

Twitter for Educators


Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange answers to a simple question. What are you doing? Where's the next workshop? Twitter has become a popular microblogging tool. It can be accessed a variety of ways, such as via the web or instant messaging services. Why is it useful for educators? Consider these possibilities:

1. Quick networking: Your one question may draw responses from a host of people quickly. If you have a relatively good number of fellow educators in your contact base, some of them are bound to be checking their twitterfeed when you pose your query.

2. Knowledge sharing: People are eager to answer questions because they can also learn from the shared experience. It's a quick way to find a URL to a classroom activity or information about an educational event, for example.

3. Track conferences: Twitter can help you stay on top of what's going on at conferences. If you can't attend one, someone may be tweeting about a session. Or, as often happens, you are at a conference but several great sessions are happening concurrently. A tweeter buddy can fill you in. To avoid multitasking during an important presentation, you can can check the conference tweeterfeeds later.

For more information and information, check out check out Twitter Fan Wiki. For a twitter application database rating, see twtbase.

3 comments:

NischalShetty said...

Nice to see articles on how to use twitter in an innovative and useful way.

As you know, twitter has a lot of apps being developed everyday.

Since you write about twitter along with other topics on your blog, would you be kind enough to have a go at twi5.com ?

Hope you like the site and review it on your blog. Looking forward to reading twi5.com's review here on teachissues. Your readers would definitely find twi5 useful ;)

It's recommendations from bloggers like you that help us connect with all the right users and profile the best apps.

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