I wanted to share my thoughts on Twitter. Yesterday while talking about blogging I was asked whether my blog was up to date. The short answer, “No”. But I did add that I had included a twitter widget on my blog in an attempt to have some up to date information. Twitter is a great little tool to update a portion of your blog quickly and easily. It’s so easy that it can be done via text message from your mobile phone.
I used twitter alot when I was on a trip to New Orleans with a group of students volunteering for habitat for humanity. It was a great way to keep people up to date with the events of our trip.
The premise of Twitter is providing an answer to the question, “What are you doing?”. A kind of microblog, Twitter limits you to 140 characters per post (or “tweet”). You can ‘follow’ other Twitter users’ post on your twitter home page or on your cell phone, and other users may ‘follow’ you. This is how parents followed their children while we were in New Orleans.
In education it could be a way to post homework for students. The following Web 2.0 Teaching Blog describes some uses for Twitter in education http://web20teach.blogspot.com/2007/08/twitter-tweets-for-higher-education.html
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