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Take one tweet and deconstruct it to expose facets of digital literacy.  Coincidental that this is about #ds106radio!

Short Doug Belshaw post on using mobiles in class - and see Guardian Teacher Network linked from there.

"Tweeting students were found to have a GPA (grade point average) half a point higher than other students."

Archive your tweets to your server. Open source app. Doesn't talk about being able to select for e.g. hashtags but may be possible to write into the code?

"'Qualification inflation' is how governments avoid having to do anything about underemployment, and it generates a massive bureaucracy that has its own interests in perpetuating the system."

"... overseas students are offered help to cheat their way to UoWales-validated degrees and visas."

"...Drs. Curto and Laudato describe a technique for providing feedback via rich media capture. Much like comments in the margins of a written assignment, feedback is received at the appropriate time point in the presentation."

The divide in academia - those who blog and engage in the online world, and those who don't. Very good post. Also ties in with the connected researcher sessions we've done for Fass.

Tii ditched at Canadian Uni. 

TwapperKeeper could be a community project for NZ. This shows an outcome in the ability to analyse event tweets. ALT-C2011.

Crystal's relaxed style and unassuming manner are at the forefront as he discusses the impact of texts and tweets on written language use. Crystal is actually quite positive about their impact and discusses findings relating the number of texts a student sends and their attainment in formal testing - contrary to conventional wisdom texting is actually positively related to school achievement. 

New tool that allows you to connect all your contact info, tweets, email, facebook stuff together

A series of tools that can be used to support reflection, with a brief discussion of the process, the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.

Collection of links to websites helpful for teachers. Includes video, twitter, blogging, etc plus sites for new teachers (latter may be US oriented)

Twapper Keeper "Allows you to archive and organize your tweets based upon hash tags. Why would you do this? Say you are holding an event and would like a snapshot of all the tweets during the event and organize them based upon topics. That is what the Twapper Keeper is all about."