"The Twitter ecosystem values learning about new content," the study notes -- so new info, it seems, is new info, regardless of who provides it.
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5 Wonderful Twitter Cheat Sheets for Teachers and Students ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 4 views
50 Plus Tips on How To Use Twitter in Your Classroom ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 1 views
Vicki Davis Twitter | Vicki Davis Trending - 2 views
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See your tweets dissected by topic. Here's my twylah page for my Twitter account. You can see common topics and it is organized nicely. I set this up sometime back.
HashTags for Education A-Z - Google Docs - 2 views
Top 25 Twitter Tips for Your Professional Development - 4 views
Search for twitter teaching resources - TES - 3 views
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I am floored to find 617 lesson plans using Twitter on the TES site. Some talk about social networks and society, advertising, etc. and others are recommendations for teachers, however, Twitter is increasingly becoming PART Of lessons and what we do. I think that eventually we'll have to make friends with social media in education just as we did with email.
Microsoft news and personal reflections after Innovative Education Forum in Education 2012 - 0 views
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If you want to discover the power of Curation, Follow https://twitter.com/#!/web20education
Be Better at Twitter: The Definitive, Data-Driven Guide - Megan Garber - Technology - The Atlantic - 4 views
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And sharing your own work conveys excitement about that work -- which means that self-promotion, rather than being a Twitter turn-off, can actually be an added value.
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Excellent article about the research from several researchers about Tweets that are compelling and those that are turn-offs. This and the original research are both great reads. I thought it funny that people particularly hate foursquare check ins mentioned through Twitter, so unlink that account or lose followers! "One piece of advice: Nix the "sandwich tweets." People do not care what you are eating for lunch. (Specifically: "Sorry, but I don't care what people are eating," "too much personal info," "He moans about this ALL THE TIME. Seriously.") Twitter, as a communications platform, has evolved beyond nascent Twttr's charmingly mundane updates ("cleaning my apartment"; "hungry") and into something more crowd-conscious and curatorial. Though Twitter won't necessarily replace traditional news, it increasingly functions as a real-time newswire, disseminating and amplifying information gathered from the world and the web.
50 Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom | TeachHUB - 5 views
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50 Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom
The 21st Century Principal: 5 Common Sense Twitter Tips for School Leaders & Educators - 5 views
Independent voices of 2011: The most influential non-celebrity users of Twitter - Features - Gadgets & Tech - The Independent - 1 views
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His UK generated list of most influential non celebrity tweeters includes NPR's Andy Carvin. It is interesting how many personalities cross time zones and national lines to influence us all. Andy is a great tweeter. Sadly, this list doesn't seem to link. Kind of misses the point but worth a read anyway.
http://images.pcmac.org/Uploads/MCPSS/MobileCounty/Departments/Forms/Twitter%20for%20Educators.pdf - 3 views
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Twitter for Educators A Beginner's Guide
Goodies - Buffer - 1 views
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There is a new site I'm seeing called Buffer. It lets you find things and put them into your "buffer" - another autotweeting type service. You can use with facebook but beware that often Facebook makes things not typed "live" into facebook have a lower priority and not put them on homestreams.
The Six Sides of Steve. » #Top12 Teacher Hashtags# - 4 views
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Twelve most popular teacher hashtags. From a little while back but I think this analysis is interesting ahd helpful.