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"The Archivist is a Windows application that helps you archive tweets for later data-mining and analysis. Start a search with The Archivist and get as many results as it can. Then, leave The Archivist running and it will poll Twitter for that search. " Export your saved tweets to a tab delimited text file and view the information in Excel. From there, run charts, graphs, or other analysis on the tweets and discover trends. Save the tweets you care about onto your computer. Use The Archivist to run searches on Twitter and then save those tweets for your archives or data-analysis.

Create a free ebook of your tweets

One appplication that comes to mind is to let the students create walkabouts for the school for prospective students or create a audio recordal of outings to historic places.

"Import article PDFs from your computer. Your articles immediately become full-text searchable so you can find what you want. ReadCube will automatically identify the author, title, and journal citation information of every article."

Personally I would not use this as I like to see those who I follow's tweets even if they are live-tweeting an event. It is like being there with them. Of course this assumes that the people I follow live-tweet things I am interested in!

Really incredibly useful!

Here are the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011. This, the 5th Annual Survey of Learning Tools, was finalised on 13 November 2011. This year's list was compiled from the Top 10 Tools lists of 531 learning professionals worldwide - from education, training and workplace learning. 

Apart from organising people whom you are following into easy manageable twitter lists, you can also use list for "content curation"

"Spice up your presentations with these five cool web 2.0 tools. From meetings with your faculty to engaging classroom lessons, express your creativity with these presentation alternatives. In today's fast-paced, media-driven world, the traditional slide-by-slide presentation will not hold the interest of your audience. That's where this collection of tools comes in."

"ScheduleHangout is great for scheduling group hangouts on Google+Invite your guests, give them a few date options and ScheduleHangout does the rest. We'll help you organize the Hangout session around your friends/colleagues optimized availability."

"Take part in a global online presentation event for secondary school students. Share your ideas about 21st century topics with a world wide audience. NEXT SESSION: 7 February 2012"

Some SOuth African twiter stats

Some lovely tools for helping you cope 

!blther is a real time group chat for twitter. Just send a tweet with "!b @names @of @people @you @want @to @include in the private chat with a title and tweet

A great tool to manage your social media overload

"You're browsing the web and finding great content. Buffer takes care of sharing that content on a schedule your followers will love. Collect and share from anywhere:"

Does Facebook negatively impact grades?

"I naively assumed that Twitter was a place for people to narcissistically blab their every move, and after reading "Why Educators Should Join Twitter," my mind was changed and I joined. My life is changed! I finally feel like I have others whose lives revolve around education the way mine does". Jaime Mendelis, Binghamton, NY

If you're a college student looking to supplement your science studies, these apps are some of the best for learning, sharing, researching and just plain having fun.

YouTube is still the best place to find videos to use in the classroom, despite being blocked in many schools. If your school does allow you to use YouTube there are a few cool tips and tricks to improve your use of YouTube in the classroom.