Steve Wheeler's blog. He gives a list of ideas for effective Twitter use in the classroom. Includes links to other Twitter resources for classroom use.
Twitter is a form of "mircroblogging" similar to status updates in Facebook except you do not need to be invited or approved as a friend (although you do have the power to change that). You are limited to 140 characters.
I'm still a Twitter skeptic, but I'm trying to be open minded and come to terms. This was one of the first resources I found to see what other teachers out there are doing with Twitter to make it a worthwhile experience for their students.
Upon popular request, we have just implemented a cool feature for Twitter fans: "Save Favorite Tweets". With a 2-step simple setup, you can begin to automatically save your favorite tweets to your Diigo library on a daily basis. Best of all, cached pages for links in the tweets will also be automatically fetched and saved on Diigo, so you can always access the archived pages. Here is how to get started:
"Hello and welcome to the VoiceThread 4 Education wiki. This wiki was started by Colette Cassinelli (http://twitter.com/ccassinelli) but because of contributors like YOU - it has grown to be comprehensive collection of VoiceThread examples from students and teachers of all ages and groups. The purpose of this wiki is to gather examples of how educators are using Voicethread in their classrooms (or for professional development) and to share those examples."
But peer into Sean Nash’s Marine Biology class at Benton High School, and you see students using Facebook-like applications, Twitter and cell phones in their studies. His class embraces the technology rather than avoids it.