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How can you use Twitter, the newest social media craze, in your classroom most effectively? Here are some answers.

This is play on Twitter, make a fictitious tweet from a character in a novel or from history

Easy tool for shortening long, unruly web address for easy sharing and posting on social networking (like facebook and twitter). When you don't want to ask students to type a long web address with lots of numbers and symbols (which most likely will be typed wrong and not work), shorten the address using Bit.ly

The backchannel is everything going on in the room that isn't coming from the instructor. The backchannel is where people ask each other questions, pass notes, get distracted, and give you the most immediate feedback you'll ever get. Instead of ignoring the backchannel, TodaysMeet helps you leverage its power by bringing in the backchannel through tweets from Twitter.

July 16, 2013 By: Steven W. Anderson This is the second in my Summer Learning Series, where I share "make-it, take-it" resources, ideas, tips and tricks for the summer and for the classroom. The first in the series was Collaborative Learning With Edmodo. Today we will look at how to utilize hashtags for learning and sharing.

Are you a digital immigrant and wanting to learn more about cool tools like Facebook, Twitter, etc.? Check this out.

This free site publishes documents online for easy sharing. Recommended for sharing handouts and presentations for conferences or posting of Facebook.