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How have you used twitter to collaborate?

some cool ideas in here that have potential for IL instruction (twitter games, virtual meeting places based around a web page).

Use potential? Twitter game where you give clues; students need 2 work in collab to decode/hunt down resources. Students create comic strip of screenshots of their research path and insert dialog showing their thoughts during the process (a creative form of journaling?)

edu-oriented tool using twitter and Facebook. Students can sign up with existing twitter and Fb accounts.

micro-forum type application for your website. It pulls your Twitter stream in near real-time (max 1 min delay), reformatting tweets into threaded conversations with unlimited nesting. Possible tool for integration into LMS platforms?

By Tanya Roscorla on February 14, 2011 Classroom Technology, Converge

article from Search Engine Watch

Here is one idea for using twitter, perhaps in collab with a history or writing or acting faculty member: have students role play people from a specific event (e.g., Watergate from the eyes of several key players) or set of circumstances (e.g., ppl from different backgrounds observing a lynching, etc.). Each student is assigned (or picks) a different "character" and then is responsible for researching that event or issue and or person and to create realistic tweets that they imagine their character might be observing or thinking about during the event or about the issue. You could then also assign a reflective essay for them to think about how the process of emerging themselves in the persona and interacting with the other characters effected their perspective (or just do a simpler assignment where they reflect on their research process).

from ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

designed for business use: multiple accounts (up to 6) and multiple users, integrated twitetr search, email notifications