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"The PowerPoint Twitter Tools prototypes are now available. Created using SAP BusinessObjects Xcelsius (but requiring only PowerPoint for Windows and Adobe Flash to run), the twitter tools allow presenters to see and react to tweets in real-time, embedded directly within their presentations, either as a ticker or refreshable comment page. There are currently eight tools - you can easily cut and paste them into your own PowerPoint decks: * PowerPoint Twitter feedback slides * PowerPoint AutoTweet * PowerPoint Twitter voting - bar charts and pie chart * PowerPoint Twitter ticker bar * PowerPoint Mood meter * PowerPoint Crowd meter * PowerPoint Zoom text * PowerPoint Twitter update bar"

Twitter has become a powerful tool for community organizers, marketers, and others who want to share and receive information in a fast, friendly environment. It's no wonder, then, that teachers have also found success on Twitter, using the tool to connect with students, share information with parents, and find useful resources. Here, we'll take a look at 100 tools that can help twittering teachers make the most out of this helpful microblogging tool.

paper.li organizes links shared on Twitter into an easy to read newspaper-style format. Newspapers can be created for any Twitter user or any #tag. Think specific topic research project.

"Educational Twitter Chats Calendar"

BlastFollow enables you to follow Twitter users who share your interests en masse. This is accomplished by searching for users who have tweeted with a particular hashtag recently. For example, if you are interested in ISTE 2010 conference, you may want to search for users whose tweets have included the hashtag "#ISTE10". This would be useful if you are using Twitter in your classroom for students to follow a particular class thread.

What Twitter can be to users . . . Broadcast medium, PLN builder, Professional Development, Edchat, Virtual conference attendance, Live blogging, Backchannel, Complaints dept., Tech support, Subscription service, Disaster and emergency tool, Share your tastes and activities, Real time search, News on demand, Broadcast the revolution, Journaling, Look at me, look at me!

This is a list of History museums to follow on Twitter.

1. Real-Time Communication and Engagement 2. Collaborating, Networking, and Researching with #Hashtags 3. The Twitter Backchannel 4. Checks for Understanding 5. Projects

GroupTweet turns a standard Twitter account into a group communication hub where members can post updates to everyone in the group using direct messages. When the group account receives a direct message from a group member, GroupTweet converts it into a tweet that all followers can see.

We're all looking for ways to become better professionals. From conferences and webinars to books and seminars, we spend good money and give precious time to glean insights from accomplished marketers. Those are great, of course, but what if I told you that you can get smarter for free with Twitter and 20 minutes or so a day.

Listing of the various chats on Twitter via hashtags, i.e. #elemchat #educhat, etc.

35 interesting ways to use Twitter in the Classroom

The following projects provide you and your students with 50 ways to incorporate Twitter into important and lasting lessons.

interesting way to view hashtags (#) in Twitter

This site provides a simple bookmarking service. We follow your twitter feed, and whenever a status you tweet or re-tweet contains URLs, we add them to your delicious.com bookmarks. Optionally, bookmark URLs in @replies to you, and in tweets you mark as Favorites.

Cover It Live is a Web-based program that allows educators to have live discussions-or chats- online for free. Many education bloggers have found the site useful because it allows them to embed discussion threads directly into a personal Web space. Rather than having to rely on a static comment thread for reader feedback, Cover It live adds a real-time element to blogging discussions. The online interface includes features that allow users to upload and share multimedia files, including videos, photos, Web links, and group polling data. An added featue lets Twitter users access the conversation and conribute "tweets," or short comments, that they've posted on the microblogging site Twitter. Late participants can also instantly replay a conversation after it has ended. To set up a conversation, a group moderator must register and create the forum space; then anyone can join without having to register for the service.