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Even that Twitter thing the kids are into these days, with its 140-characters and its perpetual haze of pound signs, has its uses-and quick, simple ways a bit more accessible than facebook. Here are 28 to get you started.

Grovo is an online education and training platform that helps people find and use sites, and helps sites reach and educate users. Before Grovo, there was no single, centralized location for Internet education and training. Grovo produces free and Premium Business video tutorials that cover the Web's most popular and useful sites as well as essential cloud services in social media, productivity, and online marketing. Applications include Facebook Profile, Advertising, and Pages, Google Analytics and Apps, Twitter, Yelp, Basecamp, and LinkedIn.

"An infopic is a photo with text layered on top that is designed to communicate a message. The message might be a summary, quote, definition, notes, data, weblink, hashtag, or other informational tidbits. The information might come from a conference, workshop, activity, lesson, video, book, a conversation, etc. Your blog, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Google Plus are great places to share infopics. The process of creating an infopic forces you to listen or read information and decide what is most important to remember and share. Learners of any age can make an infopic!"

"Narakeet is video presentation maker with voice over. Use it to convert PPT to video easily, create a slideshow with music or turn lecture slides into videos. Make videos from PowerPoint, Google Slides or Keynote. Create full HD videos for YouTube from slides. Use our templates to quickly make videos for Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter. Automatically add subtitles and closed captions to videos. No registration or account needed to get started, no watermark added to videos."

"Frequently this conversation focuses on the most effective hardware for teaching and learning. While this is an important decision to make, it should not be the focus. In fact, the best devices a school can employ are great teachers."

"The opening minutes are also the time when students' brains are their freshest and they tend to remember more of what's been taught during this period than any other time of the learning episode. In addition, student motivation can increase if they realize that the concept being taught today connects to their lives and has value."

"Ben Rimes talks about connecting technology and Common Core standards.  Ben is passionate about technology in the classroom, digital storytelling, and social media."

"Technology is unavoidable, and while some teachers may still feel hesitant about the changes that are coming fast and furiously in the wake of these advancements, most teachers want to embrace the potential. Teachers that are successfully integrating educational technology in their classrooms are beacons for their peers - and there is much they can teach us. Teachers who are successfully using edtech to grow their students share these ten important traits"