This group was formed as a place to keep track of all things Twitter; especially 3rd party applications designed to enhance the Twitter experience. Presented at 2009 NECC in Washington, DC by Andrea Christman Erica Lodish and Wendy Stephens.
One of the most complex features of TwitterTwitter for new users to understand is the hashtag, a topic with a hash symbol (#) at the start to identify it. Twitter hashtags like #followfriday help spread information on Twitter while also helping to organize it.
TwitterGadget is a clean, robust, web 2.0 style client for Twitter.com, designed to submit and view status updates via your iGoogle homepage, Gmail account, or directly in your browser.
Love it, love it, love it! This is the primary way I use Twitter from the high school where I work. Really streamlines the number of websites you have to login to.
I REALLY like the hootlet...it allows you to quickly send a tweet about a website that you are viewing. Only thing is that I couldn't make it work on my IE, but it works just fine on GoogleChrome
Teachers are always trying to combat student apathy and University of Texas at Dallas History Professor, Monica Rankin, has found an interesting way to do it using Twitter ...
This university professor uses " weekly hashtag to organize comments, questions and feedback posted by students to Twitter during class." I think this has possible applications in secondary education as well!
Why should educators get involved with Twitter? Here are nine reasons. 1. Together we're betterTwitter can be like a virtual staffroom where teachers can