A great mix of individual experts and enthusiasts and education technology professionals to follow and stay informed with.

Guest post by Maria Rainier.

Though Twitter’s contribution to the world of social media and progressive society was at one time a strongly argued point, there is no doubt today that the popular social media platform has become a valuable tool for various aspects of education. Sure, Twitter can be the perfect place to waste hours on mundane details about people’s lives or worthless celebrity gossip. But, the microblogging platform also enables us to create and participate in meaningful conversations concerning education, technology, and society.

Twitter has played a growing role in technology within the classroom and in promoting education technology to the world. These Twitter users are worth following for anyone wishing to keep abreast of, or learn more about, the ever-evolving world of education technology.

Teach Paperless
Focused specifically on teaching, Teach Paperless delivers an open conversation about how the digital revolution can and has influenced the way in which we teach and learn. While this feed is largely focused on primary education, the technology discussed throughout each and every day on this Twitter affects all forms of learning at every level. Teach Paperless provides numerous useful tips for classroom teaching and works to involve its followers in the conversation as much as possible.

Inside Higher Ed
This Twitter page (though fairly impersonal) provides a wonderful snapshot of the latest trends and news concerning technology in higher education. Maintained by Steve Kolowich, the Inside Higher Ed Tech Twitter discusses things like MIT open courseware, Khan Academy, the Kindle Fire, and how these and many other technological innovations impact the world of education and academia. This feed supplies its readers with high quality content on important aspects of higher education and technology.

Audrey Watters
Writing about education technology, open education, and academia in modern society, Audrey Watters offers intelligent insights with a fresh and fun voice. Linking her tweets with her Hack Education blog, Watters uses this space to muse her thoughts on technology education and the direction of education in our increasingly more technological world. (As with most individuals’ Twitter activity, it is only natural that Ms. Watters also interacts on a more personal level here from time to time).

Wired Campus
As the Twitter feed for The Chronicle of Higher Education’s technology blog, Wired Campus examines how technology influences the world of higher education. As one of the most active ed tech blogs/Twitters in the Twittersphere, this feed is a great one to follow to stay current with new technology waves being made in academia. While Wired Campus has a focus on higher ed, much of what they cover offers insights and technological information relevant to K-12.

Scott McLeod
Filled with regular inspiring “mind dumps”, links to new and interesting digital libraries, and a slew of useful online “bookmarks” to useful tools and discussions, Scott McLeod’s Twitter provides a wonderful platform to enter the tech ed conversation. Scott McLeod runs the blog Dangerously Irrelevant, dedicated to discussing “technology, leadership, and the future of schools.” McLeod has a strong voice with tons of intelligent and thought provoking things to say about education, technology, and modern society.

eCampus News
Discussing college education and technology, the eCampus News Twitter provides information on how universities are incorporating technology into their programs to improve education. With links to articles about new gadgets and gizmos in the education world, discussions of all the latest news in higher ed, and serious explorations of important issues in academia, eCampus News is a goldmine for education technology enthusiasts.

Howard Rheingold
Howard Rheingold runs the online learning community site for Rheingold University, providing the public with live sessions and various forums on material covered within a traditional college classroom throughout a five week period. With experience as an online and classroom professor at the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University, Rheingold offers invaluable insight into technology education. This Twitter feed provides interesting quips into the world of higher education and revolutionary technologies.

Do you have any (other) Twitter users or Twitter tags that you like to follow to learn about and participate in the online dialogue about education and instructional technologies? Please comment and tell us about them.

Author Bio: Maria Rainier is a freelance writer and blog junkie. She is currently a resident blogger at First in Education where she writes about education, online colleges, online degrees etc. In her spare time, she enjoys square-foot gardening, swimming, and avoiding her laptop.

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This week’s collection of Education Technology article and resource Tweets.

(Originally posted on Twitter by @EmergingEdTech over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers).

• Researchers Rate RateMyProfessors, and Find It Useful: http://bit.ly/shic9f
• Handling Technology Mishaps in the Classroom? http://bit.ly/v6H7yd
• 500 words on why your school deserves a tech package can win $5K to $25K tech pkgs! http://intel.ly/tT5BXC
• 5 Ways Higher Education Is Leveraging Mobile Tech: http://on.mash.to/ufZm3i
• Slideshark: Free iPad Presentation App – http://bit.ly/sVb1V1
• Kno CEO Rashid, “education technology is now a custom fit problem for Silicon Valley”: http://zd.net/uZvAOA
• (Chronicle) In the 21st-Century University, Let’s Ban Books: http://bit.ly/vI3zHf
• 40 Informative Sites to Learn About Effective Special Education Teaching Methods: http://bit.ly/rCbj9t
• 25 iPad Apps Changing College Prep: http://bit.ly/uUjKZz
• Region 15 Students Improve Writing Skills Through Online Program: http://bit.ly/tdC0o3

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These tools offer free functionality that extend and enhance the possibilities for instructional uses of Twitter.

Twitter is playing a role in more classrooms every day. Articles like “6 Examples of Using Twitter in the Classroom” and “100 Ways To Teach With Twitter” have drawn tens of thousands of readers, a clear testament to the high level of academic interest in this wildly popular microblogging platform.

Teachers are finding new ways to use Twitter to engage their students, build stronger academic and professional relationships, and to share information in a richer learning environment, and they are using tools like these to bring more fun and functionality to the process.

It’s easy to get started with these applications. Users can sign up using their Twitter accounts (although GroupTweet does get a little more involved). Each of these tools has the benefit of being web based – you don’t have download anything to your computer to use them, and you can access them from anywhere via a web browser. Lastly, they all have free versions that provide robust functionality.

Twitpic (twitpic.com)
Twitpic allows users to upload photos or videos and share them directly to Twitter, creating an array of possibilities for sharing information. You can get started in seconds, signing in with your Twitter credentials.

Teachers and educators can use Twitpic to post visual content related to classes or coursework, keep classroom pen pals connected, develop class projects that call for students to assemble photos with specific subjects or themes, and so on.

(Of course, it’s always important to keep privacy considerations in mind when posting pictures of video materials … sharing personal photos of other people without their consent is never recommended.)

Twtpoll (twtpoll.com)
Polling and survey tools provide teachers so many capabilities. Poll students about their thoughts on class materials and subjects, use a poll as a quiz, allow the poll itself to be an educational tool about voting and democracy, or reach out to colleagues and put new ideas through a peer-reviewed test phase before investing time and energy into implementing them in the classroom. The possibilities are endless.

The polls or surveys people create on Twtpoll can be shared with Twitter followers, Facebook friends or email contacts, giving the tool more dynamic reach than if it relied on Twitter responses alone. Twtpoll comes with four different pricing options – a free version with plenty of power, and three paid options that provide increasing functionality.

GroupTweet (grouptweet.com)
GroupTweet enables teachers to create a classroom Twitter group, where anyone who is authorized and has a Twitter account can contribute. This can be a great way to tie class related tweeting together and create a course-specific presence on Twitter.

Check out the GroupTweet Examples Page to get a sense of how the tool works and what it lets you do, or dig into the FAQs for further details. A GroupTweet classroom account can be focused specifically on students, or it could be used to help to keep the conversation and the lines of communication open between educators, students and parents. The tool is easy to set up and use, and can be kept private by allowing only members of the group to tweet and see tweets.

FollowerWonk (followerwonk.com)
FollowerWonk is the ultimate Twitter Follower data tool, allowing for analysis of Twitter users and follower trends. The free functionality in FollowWonk provides summary information for any Twitter user’s followers (except for yourself – you have to pay for that), and it lets you compare information about different Twitter users. There are a variety of paid plans that provide additional analytics capabilities.

Educators can collect all sorts of useful data from the Twitter analytics tool about what’s trending among their peers in specific locations, across age or student groups, by topic or even by a “cloud” search of similar terms found in bios – like ‘teacher’ or ‘education.’

This is a powerful tool that allows teachers to compare what is being learned and what is being taught within the entire Twitter community, which had 200 million registered accounts as of January 2011!

All of these Twitter tools can enhance teachers and students ability to communicate and share ideas. Used together, they create a new, dynamic set of learning and information sharing tools.

Do you use these tools, or have other favorite Twitter companion products that you use in an instructional role? Drop a comment and tell us about it…

This article was written collaboratively with Chuck Sipe, Executive Editor at Teacher Certification Degrees, a teaching career site with information on an Educational Technology Degree.

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There are openings for classes outside of the US and Canada to participate in this innovative project.

Many of you may remember Amy (“Miss Night”) from the post, “Inspiring Learning Outcomes with Twitter in the Kindergarten Classroom”. Amy is Project Coordinator for Kindergarten Around The World, and they are welcoming classes across the world who might wish to participate in this fun program.

Kindergarten Around The World is, “a Twitter-based virtual exchange project between kindergarten classes in different countries. It was piloted in the early spring of 2011, using 8 kindergarten classes (4 classrooms in Canada, and their partner classes in Indonesia, the Philippines, the USA, and France).”

They are hoping to expand the project for the 2011-2012 school year, so if you are interested, please click here to sign up. (Signing up does not commit you to anything – it just gets you on the list so that when the school year starts, someone can reach out and follow up on your interest and eligibility).

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This teacher’s work with Twitter is building connections across the globe, and inspiring learning here at home.

I first learned about Amy Night’s use of Twitter in her kindergarten classroom when she submitted the following comment in response to the post, “Do you use Facebook or Twitter in the classroom (or know someone who does)?” back in February:

“I am a kindergarten teacher, using Twitter in my classroom as a tool to connect my students to a larger, international community, of kindergarteners. I blogged about it here: http://missnightmutters.blogspot.com/. Just recently the entire kindergarten team (4 teachers) at my school created twitter accounts for their classes, and we are using them as part of a “Kindergarten Around the World” virtual exchange project.”

Naturally I stopped by her blog and started reading. I loved her story, and decided right then and there I wanted to write about it here. When I recently sat down and started reviewing her work to try and put together an article, I found her March post, “I heard them say, love is the way”, and it occurred to me that I really couldn’t add anything to this, and that I really wanted to share it here. I asked Miss Night if I could republish her story here, and she kindly granted me permission. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

I HEARD THEM SAY, LOVE IS THE WAY 
(originally published on http://missnightmutters.blogspot.com/)

A few weeks ago, we started a new project in my classroom: Kindergarten Around the World. I will spare you the minute details (hit me in the comments if you want to know more), but it is, basically, a virtual exchange between our class, and a partner class overseas. For my 20 Canadian munchkins, we found a partner group in East Borneo, Indonesia. Both classes have created an imaginary friend, who attends our partner school. (For the curious, our imaginary friend is a little girl named Ella. She is 6 years old, she has blond hair, brown eyes, and brown skin. Her gender and name were decided by vote. Her age and appearance were drawn at random.) We use Twitter to ask research questions of our partners, and the answers allow us to write stories documenting our imaginary friend’s experience in another country. Each child has a journal for the project, where they record things they have learned. It being kindergarten, the recording mostly takes the form of drawings. The children dictate text to go with their drawings, and then copy that text onto their pages. We are working on a Prezi presentation to share our learning with parents and other classes. We have made a video to teach our “Indonesia friends” about snow and how to get dressed for recess when it is very cold.

When my team conceived of this project, I knew it was going to be cool. As mentioned in my previous post about Twitter in kindergarten, I love love LOVE that my students are building real connections with other children their own age. This project brought it to another level, by pushing them to imagine themselves in a completely different setting. (As we graph the often FIFTY degree difference in our daily temperatures, I often imagine MYSELF in a completely different setting, too!) I knew that this project was going to take us in unexpected directions, and there is no doubt that it has. In the 3 weeks since it started, we have learned:

Every single time we log in, we learn.

Do Popular Social Networking Applications Have A Place In The Classroom? A Growing Number Of Educators Say ‘Yes’.

The post, “100 Ways To Teach With Twitter”, is one of the most consistently viewed article on this site. Similarly, “Facebook As An Instructional Technology Tool”, resulted in the 2nd most trafficked day here in 2010. While Facebook and Twitter are both hugely popular Internet tools, I still find myself a little surprised by the popularity of these posts, considering the academic perspective of this site. Many teachers, even those at online universities, are hesitant to use such popular tools, given their inherent risk of exposing students to inappropriate content.

Of course these are two very different types of tools, but they both have their place in the social networking sphere. Facebook’s place is at the top of the heap (as of this writing it is the second most popular site on the Internet, right behind Google), while Twitter defined the genre of ‘microblogging’ (but much of its use is also in a social networking context).

It appears that Twitter is more widely used in the classroom, based on the volume of articles about this topic that I have come across. One obvious reason for this difference is that Facebook is limited to ages 13 and over, while Twitter has no age restrictions. Facebook is also more likely to be restricted on school networks. Perhaps if teachers were more aware of how a Facebook page and profiles can be configured to provide an appropriate level of privacy for course work, they (and school administrators) might be more open to considering it’s use (more on that below). Of course, there are also other educational scenarios that lend themselves more readily to a tool like Facebook, such as online universities and online courses.

Here are a few of the examples of Facebook playing a productive role in the classroom that I have come across. I will be doing a presentation at Campus Technology 2011 in Boston this July about the use of popular social networking applications in the classroom and I will discuss examples like these, and others that I learn about in the coming months.

• Professor Gideon Burton’s work with Facebook: I first learned about Professor Burton from student Kristen Nicole. She commented, “In my British Literary History course last winter semester, my professor created a class facebook group which we all joined.  We’d finish our reading for class and then get online and write a paragraph about what we’d read, focusing our comments on the specific course aims that my professor had created for the class.  We would then go to class where my professor would note the ways in which we’d covered the material well and he’d teach anything we missed as well as anything else he wanted us to know.” I collaborated with Kristen to write this popular post about this experience, and Professor Burton later weighed in and commented. Click here to visit a Facebook discussion group for one of Professor Burton’s Early British Lit classes.
• University of South Florida teacher uses Facebook in class: I recently came across this article about USF graduate student Alessandro Cesarano, who teaches a Beginning Spanish class, and uses Facebook for homework assignments and class discussions in lieu of Blackboard. Cesarano says, “I like the Facebook page better than Blackboard because students have more access to authentic cultural material, and I don’t have to waste class time teaching them how to use a new program because many of them already use Facebook.” 
• Texas Kindergarten Teacher communicating with Parents via Facebook: Kindergarten teacher Matt Gomez wrote a couple posts on his blog, mattgomez.posterous.com, about his use of Facebook as a tool to communicate with parents. In this post, he explained that he had, “been toying with the idea of the page for several months. The main reason is Facebook has 500 million+ users. This is a tool that most parents know how to use and use on a consistent basis. Why struggle to make parents visit your website or blog when you can meet them in a place they already visit online?” In this post, he provides some observations about how it worked out.
• Classroom 2.0 Discussion Forum: This discussion thread has a number of comments from educators who have used Facebook in the educational setting, such as these comments from …
  • Jason Graham: “I’ve been using FaceBook with grade 1 …….yes grade 1. Most of the parents are on FB so its a convenient way to communicate with them, and they can send private messages as well. Most of the parents are busy on the go people who use their Blackberries and FB, Twitter etc to communicate. Its convenient for all. Plus it provides a digital record.”
  • Anne De Manser: “I use facebook with my students in several ways. I find it is a great way to provide positive role modelling in an online environment by making positive comments on their facebook walls and by providing them a window into the way my ‘public ‘ face looks online. It’s just another way of communicating and building relationships with our school community.”
    

Setting Up a Facebook Group for Your Class
If you wish to learn more about how best to configure things in Facebook for use in a course based application, here are a few resources that provide guidance.

First, there is this document from Elon University, which offers details on how to set up profiles and course content, following this basic approach:

1. Create a teacher profile separate from your personal profile
2. Ask  students to create a limited profile with controlled settings, and to friend your new teacher profile
3. Create Lists & Groups for your classes
4. The document then goes on to discuss how to use various Facebook tools as part of the instructional process

You may also want to watch these YouTube videos from “JayDsfsu“, which illustrate “The Basics of a Facebook Page for Educators“, “Privacy on Facebook for Educators“, “Setting Up a Facebook Group for Your Class“, and more.

Other ideas for using Facebook in the classroom
For those interested in giving Facebook a shot as part of their instructional process, here’s a few more sources of ideas about thing you might want to try:

• 100 Ways You Should Be Using Facebook In Your Classroom
• 15 Facebook Apps Perfect For Online Education
• How To Use Facebook Questions In The Classroom

ARE YOU USING FACEBOOK IN THE CLASSROOM? Please be sure to let us know about it! In the next few weeks we’ll continue this dialogue about Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking apps in the classroom, including some that are designed specifically for education. I’d love to hear, and share, your success story with these types of tools, so please don’t hesitate to reach out, either in a comment below, or through the contact page. Thanks!

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I’ll be presenting examples of classroom uses of social networking tools at the Campus Technology 2011 conference. Do you have a story you would like share?

If you’ve used Twitter or Facebook in the classroom successfully, and would be willing to have your story shared here on EmergingEdTech and possibly with CT 2011 conference attendees this summer, please let me know about it. If you know a teacher who has been using these apps, or any other social networking tools in the educational setting, please pass this post on to them.

I already have a good number of instructional uses of Twitter and Facebook to share in my presentation, but new examples are always welcomed. Naturally, the more clearly you can illustrate how using these tools engaged students and/or improved learning outcomes, the more impactful these stories will be, so please share a little about that if you can when you comment, or use the contact page, to submit your info. Don’t worry about writing anything elaborate – just drop a couple sentences to let me know what you’ve been up to, and we’ll work together to develop your story in writing.

I’ll be selecting responses to write about here, and choosing some to include in my presentation up in Boston in July. I look forward to hearing and sharing your story about Facebook, Twitter, or any other Social Networking tools that you or a colleague have used successfully in the instructional setting!

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Guest writer Mike Patterson suggests 5 ways that students and professionals can utilize Internet based applications to advance their professional prospects.

The 21st century has brought about a revolution in the way we obtain educational information, gain career exposure, and market ourselves for the jobs that we desire. Whether pursuing continued education or simply looking to advance in your current field, the Internet offers a wealth of technological tools to propel you forward to the future of your dreams.

1. Social Media
Social media outlets, in one form or another, have probably already crept their way it to your life. These common networking applications can also be used as powerful education tools. Social media affords an opportunity to stay up to date with whats going on in any field. Seeking out experts within your field and befriending them on Facebook and Twitter can help keep you up to date with pertinent information. In the world of business, for example, following industry leaders on Twitter can provide you with a needed edge.

2. LinkedIn
LinkedIn is yet another form of social networking. LinkedIn, however, is geared exclusively to the professional. Creating a LinkedIn account is a first step in getting connected to experts within your own profession.

3. ePortfolio
Utilizing the power of electronic porfolio tools like ePortfolio, you will be able to present all your digital work for review and critique not only from your advisors, but also from your peers. EPortfolio pages can be used to showcase achievements and present educational and career goals.

4. Resume Posting Sites
For most people, when thinking of websites the likes of Monster.com or Dice.com, they think only of posting resumes and searching out new career opportunities. This certainly is one notable aspect of these sites, but it is not all that they have to offer. Resume sites offer up smashing tips and advice on finding the perfect job. These tools can be used to help develop the perfect resume and to learn what it is that employers are in search of.

5. Online Continued Education
The tried and true, most efficient way to further one’s career still remains … continuing education. There is an undeniable correlation between the level of one’s education and the success you can have within any chosen profession. The newest technology in continuing education is the ability to complete college coursework online. The flexibility offered by online schools has served to afford more people than ever the opportunity to further their education. Online schools offer programs ranging from high school diplomas to online MBA courses. No matter what your career, it is a safe bet that there are online college courses that can help you further your success.

It is really rather astonishing what technology has provided us in recent years. The Internet has provided some valuable tools to help us advance our careers. Leveraging all that technology has to offer can help ensure that you have all the necessary resources for success.

This article was written by Mike Patterson on behalf of OnlineMBA.com, an online resource for those seeking the best online MBA.

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Twitter use by Higher Education Faculty is more extensive than you might expect, and it’s on the rise. 

This last week I came across this report from Magna Publications, published last month, which discusses their second annual survey of Twitter usage among college faculty. The survey was conducted over the summer and had 1,372 respondents.

I have to say that I been somewhat surprised by the extent to which educators have been interested in Twitter. For example, since the inception of this blog, two of the most popular posts on this site have been “6 Examples of Using Twitter in the Classroom“ and “100 Ways to Teach With Twitter“, with the later consistently pulling more traffic than any other article here. 

I guess this shouldn’t be too surprising given the fact that Twitter has more than 100 million users, with over 300,000 new users signing up every day. However, education tends to be a bit of a laggard when it comes to the adoption of new technologies, so the high level of interest in this topic versus the many others I have covered is a little unexpected.

This new report confirms the growing popularity of the microblogging application among college and university instructors. 

Some of the facts

• 35.2% of respondents used Twitter in some way, compared to 30.7% last year, so use is clearly on the rise
• 29.7% claimed to be either “very familiar” or “extremely familiar” with Twitter (versus 21.9% last year)
• Of those that do use the application, 53.9% said they rarely or never use it to communicate with students
• 16.9% of faculty said they have used Twitter but then stopped using it
• 47.9% of faculty respondents have never Tweeted

How/Why are Faculty using Twitter?

• To share information with peers (71.2% indicated that they use Twitter this way occasionally or frequently)
• As a real-time news source (70.4% either occasionally or frequently use Twitter this way) 
• Only 34.6% faculty have used Twitter as a learning tool in the classroom either “sometimes”, “occasionally”, or “frequently”

I’ve made this video blog post as a companion piece to this article. There are many quotes included in the report, both in favor of, or arguing against, the use of Twitter in educational settings. I’ve read some of these quotes in this vlog entry. 

As always, we would love to hear from readers about their experiences and opinions, so if you want to share something, please do! Do you think this report’s conclusions accurately reflect Twitter adoption trends across the wider sphere of academia? Let us know what you think.

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These resources actually provide over 110 ideas for, and examples of, using Twitter in the classroom.

It’s been almost 8 months since I published the post, “6 Examples of Using Twitter in the Classroom”, about uses of the popular micro-blogging tool in the instructional setting. This post generated a lot of traffic, and continues to attract hundreds of viewers every week.

Since that brief posting, I’ve come across a lot of articles containing examples and suggestions for using Twitter in instructional applications. I’ve combed through many of these and tried to boil down the redundancies to create a rich set of idea-laden resources. While there’s still going to be some overlap in the concepts presented in these articles, they clearly meet the goal of providing a thorough set of ideas and examples for leveraging Twitter in the educational process. (I follow this new listing with the original set of articles cited in my June ’09 post).

• Here we have 25 Ways to Teach with Twitter from Sonja Cole.
• Here’s 10 great ideas on how to use Twitter in the classroom, from blogger Steve Wheeler.
• This extensive list provides 50 ways to use Twitter in the College Classroom.
• This Twitter for Academia post suggests 13 different ways to use Twitter in the classroom.
• In this post, teacher “Fernando” offers his Top 10 Uses of Twitter for Education.
• Lastly, this PDF file discusses the experience of teacher Ana Dominquez using Twitter in the Kindergarten classroom.

I also want to mention these 100 Serious Twitter Tips for Academics, which are worth reviewing to learn more and plan your approach to using Twitter in (and out of) the classroom.

Here are the original “6 Examples” from last June’s post:

• I’ll start by providing links to two articles (here is one, and here is the another), about teacher Monica Rankin using Twitter in instructional application at the University of Texas at Dallas. These are a few of many stories about Professor Rankin’s efforts (this highly covered case is what really triggered my perception that there were a lot of articles about Twitter in the classroom in recent weeks).
• Here is a video about Twitter (and other technologies) being used at Roosevelt HS in Minneapolis.
• This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education discusses instructor Cole Camplese’s use of Twitter, streaming Tweets from students on screen during lectures, as part of the instructional process.
• In this Vlog, Christine Morris explains how she experimented with the technology with her higher ed students, tapping into Tweetdeck to get the most out Twitter.
• In this blog posting, David Silver explains how Twitter replaced three other technologies he was using in the classroom.
• Last, but certainly not least, here is one of countless articles about Professor David Parry’s work with Twitter, from early 2008. This is the first Twitter in the classroom story that I came across and it has been discussed and posted about many times on the Internet.

Intro to Twitter
Just to round this posting out, for anyone who is new to Twitter, here’s a nice introductory video on how to use Twitter (a short ad may play before the video, but it’s worth the wait – this is a nicely done 4 min. video from “Howcast”).

In closing, I must thank the authors of the posts that I cite here - this article would obviously not exist without their previous hard work. I hope this posting raises awareness of their excellent efforts.  

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