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One teacher's account on how he used different social networking tools and Twitter to connect his classroom to other around the world.

How one teacher used twitter in the classroom for the firsttime. 

More ideas for using Twitter in the classroom.

This article provides brief ideas about how to use twitter for classroom activities.

This article talks about the ways in which a PLN helped educators eventually connect their classes via Skype. Students might not use Twitter, but Twitter connected educators.

a variety of ways to use Twitter and the results from using it in his class

Top 25 edu Policy/Media Tweeters and the Top 25 Educator Tweeters - you could find people to follow on Twitter here.

The cons of using Twitter as a backchannel discussion. The article debates the benefits of a backchannel discussion and negative effects it may have to the overall understanding of the presentation when the listener's attention is split between two activities.

Interesting article. I think I would lose a fair amount of what speaker was saying if I were tweeting as well.

Overview of Flipgrid and all the ways it can be used in the classroom for interpretive, interpersonal and presentational modes.

Some more ideas on how to integrate social media.

This article from Edutopia provides ten simple suggestions for using various SM tools. The author's description of twitter won my heart: micro-blogging. Just that idea alone makes twitter seem much more manageable and useful.

2016 - Twitter basics

Abstract - "Teacher educators have increasingly integrated social media into their education courses with aims including improving instruction and preparing students for a connected world. In this study, the authors sought to better understand the possibilities and challenges of scaffolding 60 pre- and in-service teachers across two universities into professional learning networks (PLNs) through a social media assignment. Participants analyzed educator practices, participated in, and envisioned future uses of teacher Twitter. Consistent with previous studies, education students were positive about the relational and relevant aspects of Twitter use. However, students' participation did not mimic the participatory cultures of affinity spaces often reported by connected educators in the literature. Instead, participants tweeted around deadlines and quit using their accounts for professional education purposes once the class ended. In contrast to recent literature, this article argues that social media integration for education students should focus on relational and relevant engagements and content, as opposed to attempting to build social media augmented PLNs for unknown futures."

Video by Paul Hill on how to harness Twitter to build your PLN.

More Twitter stuff than you can imagine.

Twitter, the popular microblogging site that allows users to post 140-character "tweets," both intrigues and irritates faculty, according to a Faculty Focus survey. Some embrace it as a clever way to teach concision and get students writing, thinking, and connecting with the course material and one another.

Ok - so this article isn't on the interpretive mode...but it makes some good points - pro and con. The author is an entertaining self-described rabble-rouser!

While this article is three years old, it still has some ideas that pertain to our group's discussion. The "Many Voices" story is worth looking at.

Hi Jan, Good article--it definitely addresses the common concerns and potential problems of using Twitter with students. I liked the part about the kids building a story with students from China! I also thought it was a good idea that the teacher created one account and then shared the password. I wonder how he achieved this on an international level? Thanks for sharing!

I checked out the "Youth Twitter" website - unfortunately it looks like it has disappeared, but there must be others out there?? Anyone know of others?