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This blog entry provides us with very useful ideas of using Twitter in education.

I must admit that when I first heard about Twitter I thought it represented the apex of what concerns me about internet technology: solipsism and sound-bite communication. While I obviously spend a great deal of time online and thinking about the potential of these new networked digital communication structures, I also worry about the way that they too easily lead to increasingly short space and time for conversation, cutting off nuance and conversation, and what is often worse how these conversations often reduce to self-centered statements. When I first heard about Twitter I thought, this was the example par excellence of these fears, so for many months I did not investigate it at all.

This article describes ways to use twitter to enhance academic work. With twitter, the class goes on beyond the assigned class period because (i) the technology is appealing, (ii) students have much to say/ask, (iii) students can 'talk' without concern for "who's (physically) in class that might make fun of me", and (iv) students respond in their own time. Twitter has the dual benefits of quasi-synchronous and asynchronous communication.

Great ideas and templates for doing remote learning. Mostly for K-12, however it is easy to get inspired or adapt to college level.

This has some good ideas.

I thought this was great! This semester I actually have a baseball theme for all my modules. Game 7 of the CWS!!! :)

I had NO idea there are tools out there to help instructors create personalized grading rubrics. I'm in love!

Teaching tips in an exclusively online environment. I'm always looking for new ideas for professional improvement. This is my first semester as a strictly online instructor.

#TT2041 some good ideas here!

Interesting idea; social media for professional development in higher education.

Some good ideas on how to change up the online classroom.

This is an interesting idea that comes full circle to the original intention of Facebook. Build (and control) individual university social networks.

Many regard Twitter as quite a useless social media sharing portal. Some have this negative opinion, mainly because of the fact Twitter allows you to "tweet" or post only 140 characters in length. This length equals the text of a regular SMS, and for some this is simply not enough.

I found a good list of how one teacher uses Twitter in the classroom. Personally, I love the idea of a hashtag for a specific class.

This is a neat article on teaching math with social media. Some of the ideas can be applied to other subject areas as well.

Good review of the fraud triangle. Ideas for reducing academic dishonesty provided.

This article provides some interesting technology tools for teaching that I had not heard about before. I might give others some new ideas as well.