Teaching with Twitter

A whole range of ideas from Steve Wheeler for Teaching with Twitter. I can see several having uses here. There are also links to others who’ve experimented with Twitter for teaching….

Twitter tools

I’ve recently seen a range of new twitter tools – no doubt there are many more that I’ve not seen! http://twitter.mailana.com lets you see friends & also local Twitters; perhaps a little “busy” to easily understand. Twitteranalyzer Massive range of stats, though I’m a little sceptical about the “followersdensity” maps. If it is accurate ……

Why 140 characters?

I posted a query to Twitter, asking why twitter had a limit of 140 characters. Within seconds, both @intellagirl & @sclater had pointed out that it was based on a standard SMS – though I still wasn’t entirely sure – as I’d thought SMS was 160 characters (which Wikipedia confirmed) @josiefraser then supplied me with…

Twitter tools.

Several people (AJCann was the first) have pointed me to Twitter Friends. I’ve had a look – I rather like the Network tool. (Clearly Vicki Davies [Coolcat teacher] is a pretty popular tweeter! From there I discovered how annoying it would be to follow me on Twitter. Neither, of course, are to be confused with…

Storytlr

I’d signed up to Twistory, after reading about it last week, and really rather like it. When I first signed up, I wasn’t tweeting that much. However, fairly shortly afterwards I was at ReLIVE08 & there was a very active back channel. Suddenly Twitter started to make sense & then I wanted to feed all…

Most Useful Twitter Services

Now that I’ve started to get into Twitter, I wonder how many of these “Most Useful Twitter Services That Can Help Your Business Grow” will also be relevant to Educational uses of it….