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Very cool twitter browser for twitter visualization

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"# Writing effectively is academically and professionally crucial for students, and helping them attain that skill is a major goal for writing instruction. # The social networking site Ning offers a variety of Web 2.0 tools that can help students learn to write as well as write to learn. # A small pilot in a University of Connecticut writing course demonstrated Ning's effectiveness in helping students write to learn."

"Some 19% of internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others. This represents a significant increase over previous surveys in December 2008 and April 2009, when 11% of internet users said they use a status-update service."

Since 2006, blogging has fallen among teens and young adults while simultaneously rising among older adults. As the tools and technology embedded in social networking websites change, and use of the sites continues to grow, youth may be exchanging 'macro-blogging' for micro-blogging with status updates.

"# Learning takes place in a social context, and encouraging student-student and student-faculty contact and interaction gets at the heart of student engagement in online-education settings. # Because of their fundamental reliance on social participation and contribution, Web 2.0 tools, specifically social-networking tools, have great potential for enhancing the social context in support of learning, especially in online education. # Twitter used as an instructional tool can add value to online and face-to-face university courses that far outweighs its potential drawbacks."

Online timeline tool. Free. Looks like it might have possibilities.

Online Timeline tool and it is FREE

Interesting time line tool.

"Commentpress is an open source theme and plugin for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text. Annotate, gloss, workshop, debate: with Commentpress you can do all of these things on a finer-grained level, turning a document into a conversation. It can be applied to a fixed document (paper/essay/book etc.) or to a running blog."

This looks like it might have great potential for distance learning programs.

Interesting LMS that looks like it has a lot of promise.

This is a tool that will allow you to visualize tweets based on a search string. This would be great for presentations.

This tool will allow you to visualize tweets based on search strings. Great for presentations