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The value of Twitter for helping you and your colleagues stay informed of the latest trends, ideas, resources, and Web 2.0 integration tools has increased tremendously in the past year. A Web 2.0 tool is available for exploiting the every growing information on Twitter to remove barriers and allow you to collaborate with other science and math teachers. This new online tool is paper.li - a source of daily Twitter newsletters in education.

Twitter has become one of the most useful social applications for bloggers. Many bloggers choose to feature their latest updates in a widget visible in their blogs." I see this as an opportunity to 'microblog' short thoughts and have them posted to a blog or e-portfolio. Later, they might be developed into full posts when the author has time to reflect. Twitter is great for sharing short bursts of ideas (140 characters or less). I think it helps make expression of ideas more concise with that limitation.

I USED to think I was a Twit but http://www.twitter.com/dhollings is a Twitter genius!

A widget that aggregates a bunch of different twitter conversations that teachers are having on twitter. It's a great way to display what your PLN is saying right from your blog.

How about a quick lesson plan? How abouttwitter.png a way to keep a shorthand record of daily class activities? Then how about twitter? Start a Twitter profile (a separate one just for teaching, so not to annoy your friends), and at the end of each class day jot down what you did in class (see below for my Monday, Feb. 11th). Networking with other subject area teachers will encourage collaboration on similar lessons. And possibly (though we teachers would hope not in a 1984 kind of way), an administrator could link in and keep tabs. If I were a curriculum person in an administration, the first thing I would do would be to set up accounts for each teacher to post one daily update.

Great academic uses for Twitter!

Great Ideas for using Twitter to encourage and extend learning beyond the classroom. Written for university but easily extends to high school or adult ed. Great idea to increase connection for distance students.

Visualize tweets from Twitter using all Twitter search operators. Great as side screen back channel for conferences. Attractive Loving the idea of using this to elicit multiple viewpoints.

#chirpstory is a tool for creating and sharing stories from twitter using social media more https://twitter.com/#!/web20education

Twitter has been getting a lot of attention lately as a tool for use in the classroom, including an insightful blog post and front-page video segment on the Chronicle of Higher Education website by University of Texas at Dallas professor David Parry.

University of Washington, Summer course syllabus-Twitter

Twitter has become an incredible tool not just for communication, but for improving your life. College students can use it to expand their social circle,

ISTE's list of Ed Tech Twitter users

Using Twitter in a face-to-face Workshop Jane Hart.

3 applications for new twitter who change social web : hoverme , qwerly and lazyscope

Some have called Twitter "the 'Seinfeld' of the Internet - a Web site about nothing." And at first glance, this micro-blogging tool that connects users around the world through short bursts of real-time text messages can seem mindlessly superficial.

Twitter is a software tool that allows users to continually post (or "tweet") very short text messages to the Web from computers or mobile phones. These quick public messages simply describe what a user is currently doing. Twitter's appeal has mushroomed, making it a much-discussed new tec

Great overview of Twitter and how it can be helpful to educators.