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A potential tool for communicating with the parents of your students.

This tool could make it possible for you to avoid miscommunication with your students parents. It would make facial expresssion and tone of voice a part of online communications.

Organize the way you want to. Manage tasks quickly and easily. Get reminded anywhere.

Tips for using twitter in education

[academhack] "I must admit that when I first heard about Twitter I thought it represented the apex of what concerns me about internet technology: solipsism and sound-bite communication. While I obviously spend a great deal of time online and thinking about the potential of these new networked digital communication structures, I also worry about the way that they too easily lead to increasingly short space and time for conversation, cutting off nuance and conversation, and what is often worse how these conversations often reduce to self-centered statements. When I first heard about Twitter I thought, this was the example par excellence of these fears, so for many months I did not investigate it at all. Then I read an article by Clive Thompson at Wired. Clive's article convinced me that perhaps it was worth giving Twitter a try. At this point I have to say, I am so glad that I did. Although I am still beginning to wrap my head around all of its varied uses-I think for the most part Twitter users themselves are still figuring this out-I have been using it for over six months now and come up with some academic uses." (...)

Blog post anti-twitter, negatives. Could be a good opportunity to analyze and rebut for students.

Last week Erik Qualmann posted a list of "All Star Social Media" players in his ClickZ column. Being included in such a list with the likes of Chris Brogan and Scott Monty was humbling to say the least.  Erik qualified the list by saying they were mostly people he knew and he welcomed suggestions.  I noticed few women were mentioned and knowing there are so many power players, I decided to create a list of my own featuring women that I think "rock" the social web.

Upload and manage your photos, videos and documents, and share them on all your favorite social networks from one location. TwitC also lets you import your favorite or personal content from YouTube, Docstoc, Slide, TED, Break, Hulu, Google Docs, Viddler, Soundcloud, Kickstarter, SlideShare, Blip.tv, Ustream, Vimeo, College Humor, Break, Meefedia, Funny or Die, Metacafe, Daily Motion, Livestream, The Onion, National Geographic, eHow, and dozens more sites.

Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? Many cite the so-called Dunbar's number, 150, as a ceiling on personal contacts, but social-networking sites may enable users to burst past that number for friends."

Only 9.5% of Twitter traffic goes to "transactional sites", even less than the 14.7% from Facebook. To put that into perspective, Google UK sends over 30% of its traffic to transactional websites.

Links to some good resources on using twitter in higher ed.