Rodd asked me to make a paradigm or white paper for twitter classroom activities but am of two opinions the wiki format here should not inhibit people posting ideas on the other hand as McLuhan said the medium is the message.
Guidelines so far: Activities should be decentered and group dynamics should place more emphasis on student tweets rather than on teacher led tweets.
Activities should take advantage of features like:

1. Backchannel
2. Hashtags
3. Synchronous capabilities
4. Add on "aftermarket" features like 12second.tv or twit pages like twitter scoop
5. Collaborative process
   

What I am thinking is that activities don't have to take in all of the above to be considered twitter efficient, but should include one of the core values or characteristics of the rubric.
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social media rubric
http://microgeist.com/2009/02/an-anthropological-look-at-twitter-and-social-media/
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Move this to Why Twitter page?
Maybe in the long run Twitter should be considered training for dealing with AI's.Because, according to NASA, we will be dealing with them in another 18 years.

via (c) 1993 by Vernor Vinge

1. o The development of computers that are "awake" and superhumanly intelligent. (To date, most controversy in the area of AI relates to whether we can create human equivalence in a machine. But if the answer is "yes, we can", then there is little doubt that beings more intelligent can be constructed shortly thereafter.
2. o Large computer networks (and their associated users) may "wake up" as a superhumanly intelligent entity.
   
3. o Computer/human interfaces may become so intimate that users may reasonably be considered superhumanly intelligent.
4. o Biological science may find ways to improve upon the natural human intellect.

http://friendfeed.com/rooms/singularity-storytelling
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/vinge/misc/singularity.html
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NEA Today Magazine - "Can Tweeting Help Your Teaching?" http://www.nea.org/home/32641.htm
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