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This session will help you extend and add value to your Twitter experience by demonstrating a variety of new Twitter tools that can serve to create a more comprehensive and capable platform for learning.  Leave the session with an understanding of how to enlarge the affordances of Twitter and how to make it an essential part of your practice.

Sue Waters of Edublogs blogpost Twitter How-To for educators. Clear tips to get up and running using Twitter.

Learn more about Twitter-talk here. Wondering about the @, #, and retweeting? This page explains it in an entertaining way. It's called Twitter for Dummies part 4. There are other parts as well.

Great eLearning blog containing up to date information about eLearning ideas, technology, use in the classroom and techniques. Contains an excellent post about Twitter for Learning for all of us new to Twitter. This post alone contains about 50 links for using Twitter in the classroom, Twitter Guides and tools, and uses for Twitter for elearning. I have been bookmarking a lot of blogs lately and this particular one contains a wealth of information, infinite links and is well organized, simple and the author's writing is straightforward and clear. Look forward to following him and reading more about his ideas.

One teacher's experience using Facebook and Twitter in the classroom.

Great ideas for Facebook and Twitter. However, these two resources are on a lengthy list of things blocked and banned by my district. A continual frustration for me as a teacher is how often decisions are made based on fear, not on policy. The district isn't afraid of the resource, they are afraid of the parent phone call.

Here is the entire blog on Twitter for Dummies. Interesting section in Parts 5 and 6.

Turn your Twitter feed into a newspaper. This site allows you to view your twitter feed as if it were a newspaper. It takes a bit of time for it to get up and running, but it is a clever way to view the links being discussed via your twitterverse. If you like using a blog reader, this is kind of like a twitter reader. Have a look at mine at http://twittertim.es/leighmurrell

Examples of Twitter use in SDSU classrooms

This website lists tips on finding Math resources using twitter.

For people who like Twitter and have a Gmail

Tips and Tricks for Twitter

Interesting ideas on using Twitter in education.

This blog post describes a teacher who uses Twitter in his 8th grade classroom. He uses it to "back channel" during certain activities. (back channeling is described and defined in the post). I think it is very interesting to see, I would like to observe a teacher actually doing this in class. I find that back channeling can at time split focus and keep listeners from 100% focus and attention and they end up missing important parts of the live goings on.

This blog post lists 5 ways to use Twitter in education.

This is a blog by a woman who has worked in the health and education sectors. She has always been interested integrating different types of technology in education.

This is a great place educators can go for a robust discussion topic that pertains to education. This chat links to a Twitter discussion with another person by just adding the hashtag #edchat to the end of your tweets.

robust animation browser-based program.  Can create characters, sets, animate and add own images and sound tracks (up to 4 tracks). Easily embed in websites, Facebook, Twitter.

This is an excellent article to help educators visualize how some of our tech tools can be used in a classroom.

Cool Cat Teacher - Vicki Davis, created this Slide share for a presentation on back channeling. It explains more what it is and gives some ideas on how to use it in the classroom.