Do you use twitter with your students? Or perhaps the question is WOULD YOU?
Ever since Matt asked us to share our thoughts using twitter with students I’ve been analyzing why my instinctive response is DON’T use twitter with school students. But is my response emotional or logical?
While Tom Barrett provides an excellent example of [...]
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Would You Use Twitter With Your Students?
Twitter as RSS Reader and Snagging URLs from Twitter
Tonight’s insanity was motivated by Jeff Utecht’s post on Twitter as My RSS Reader especially when he says:
Lately I’ve been thinking about Twitter as an RSS reader. My Netvibes page has about 30 RSS feeds in it, but my Twitter account has over 700 people or feeds that I can learn from. What I have [...]
The Day Twitter Followers Made Me “Wash My Mouth Out With Soap”
What can I say?
Well apparently I said a lot more than people have come to expect from my mouth – as you can see from what’s been said in my twitter account!
While some of my followers were a tad offended by my tweets — some actually enjoyed these more than my normal ones plus some [...]
Oh NO! Is Your Scanner Down And You Didn’t Realise?
I use TweetScan all the time to effectively manage conversations in Twitter that I want to track e.g. replies to my twitter name dswaters and any other variations people have used e.g. suewaters and tags like Edublogs.
With the number of people I follow I need TweetScan as my eyes and ears. By subscribing [...]
Getting More Out of Twitter
Regardless of whether you are into Twitter or not, most people will acknowledge it has been the killer application for 2007. For such a simple application, Twitter has many layers, and it was overwhelming me thankfully my readers helped me out yesterday to get my Twitter magic back.
Martin Weller highlighted that effective management [...]
Help Me Get My Twitter Magic Back!
Lately I am feeling like I have lost the Twitter love. Life was fine when I was only following 150 people but now past 200 I am finding it hard to ensure I don’t miss the important conversations.
Twitter is a very important source for the latest news within our networks — look at the [...]

