Twitter Series-A New Kind Of Twitter PD - 17 views
TwHistory - 12 views
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Create historical twitter character then tweet based on history research Quote from Mark Rounds Web-Ed Tools Paper.li, "Participants choose a historical event, create Twitter accounts for individual characters, pore over primary source documents and think critically about the times, dates, and durations of events to create hundreds of Tweets as they might have been broadcast had Twitter existed before the 21st century. They then submit all those Tweets to the engineers at TwHistory, specifying a start date for their event, and then watch it unfold - over a day, a week, a month or more - reflecting the event's actual duration."
hashtagify.me - 12 views
puush - 22 views
An Educators Guide To Twitter - 1 views
15 Hashtag Chats You Should Be Following - AllTwitter - 33 views
Jeff Clark - Portfolio Illustrating Patterns in Data - 22 views
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This is a tantalizing portfolio page of infographic generators. As a writing teacher I see many applications. As an information fluency advocate I see a way to understand data that excites the mind. Many of these programs use social media sources to build visual comparisons and patterns. What a find!
Twitter Venn - 10 views
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Venn Diagram's can be used to illustrate the amount of overlap between various sets of items. In the projects section of Neoformix I have just published an application I call Twitter Venn. It supports investigation into the relationship between how words are used within the messages of all the people using Twitter.
The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery | Both Sides of the Table - 9 views
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The author provides a short history of information discovery that provides a fascinating context for the article. You see the evolution of web info over the paste decade. You also get some true insight on how to consume information using social tools. Abundant links to web 2.0 apps make this article well worth the time to read (and re-read it).
Kathy Schrock's Twitter Cure - 38 views
Academic Excellence in 140 Characters | Social Media in Higher Education - 0 views
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This is a video created by one of my students to summarize the research we conducted on the effects of Twitter on student engagement and grades. The journal article summarizing the study and our findings is available here.