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kakas1976 — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 05:47:31 CDT

Where Should we take this eBook?

The pages of this site have recently been re-organized. If you have suggestions for new content, for rearranging the content, or would like to contribute, we'd love to have you join us!

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Did you enjoy "The Lottery Ticket" by Anton Chekhov? Why or why not?

greatoakstracy — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:57:51 CST

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Post-Secondary

smachaje — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:16:53 CDT

Project Ideas	Overview	Related Links
Facilitating Formative Assessment	A blog post on a nascent idea for using new communications technologies (including twitter) tofacilitateand extend the formative assessment process
Twitter in Teacher Education	A blog posting on ideas for using twitter in teacher education
Cultivating a twitter presence for your teacher education program	Follow @CU_Teach for an example of a math/science teacher education program that is on twitter. This account is managed by @craig_schneider, who is the CU Teach master teacher at the University of Colorado at Boulder.	@CU_Teach
Expand the discussion	This blog post clarifies how Twitter can be used to generate new avenues for discussion. Twitter was also used to extend the discussion in a History lesson at UT Dallas (video).	Link to blog post Link to video
Backchannel for Students	Allowing students to pass notes during class - publicly, via Twitter.
50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College Classroom	The title says it all... brief ideas easily tested.
Twitter Experiment	The Video and the background information and reflection lead us to consider the limitations and benefits of a conversation via 140 character tweets.
25 Classroom Ideas for Twitter		http://techlearning.com/article/20896
Teachers of Tomorrow post	The posting looks at student use of personal high tech devices in the classroom. It is from Chapter Two, Indigenous Populations on the Shoreline in the book, The New Digital Shoreline: How Web 2.0 and Millennials Are Revolutionizing Higher Education, by Roger McHaney.	http://derekbruff.com/site/tomprof/?p=139

Professor's tips for Using Twitter in the Classroom

Educhat #1

HighSchoolTeacher — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:34:51 CDT

Nearly 600 Tweets were sent out in a little over an hour, so you may have missed some great nuggets. The screen prints from http://search.twitter.com will make the most sense if read from bottom to top. To see the prompts for this discussion, visit http://twitter.com/educhat

31 Day Game

thecleversheep — Fri, 13 May 2011 07:17:53 CDT

Twitter is now being leveraged for the first 'Professional Learning Game'. To learn more,visit http://31daygame.net

Who Should I Follow

thecleversheep — Thu, 05 May 2011 08:31:52 CDT

There is a tension between following many people to broaden your information pool and being overwhelmed with the flow of tweets. It's an individual decision on how many to follow - why not start small and experiment? Most teachers prefer to network with other educators, but there is great value in having a diverse set of people to follow within Twitter. Below, you will find a number of tools and resources that can help you find interesting people to follow.

Most teachers prefer to network with other educators, but there is great value in having a diverse set of people to follow within Twitter. Below, you will find a number of tools and resources that can help you find interesting people to follow.

Alternative Education Teachers Art Teachers Assessment Positions Athletic Directors Bible/Religion Teachers Bilingual Education Teachers Business College and University Computer Science Teachers Counselors (Guidance) Design & Technology Digital Media Teachers Drama Teachers e-Learning Teachers Early Childhood Educational Organizations or Companies Educational Interpreters for the Deaf Elementary Teachers eMINTS People English and Communication Arts Teachers	English as a Second Language Teachers Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers Food and Culinary Arts Teachers Foreign Language Teachers Geography Teachers Gifted Teachers Health and Wellbeing Teachers Homebound Teachers Independent Studies Teachers Interactive Whiteboard People Journalism Librarians LiteracyCoaches Math Teachers Middle School Teachers Music Teachers National Board Certified Teachers Other School District Administrators	Physical Education Teachers Pre-service Teachers Principals Professional Development People Psychologists (School) Reading Teachers Retired Teachers RTI Schools on Twitter Science Teachers Social Studies Teachers Special Education Teachers Superintendents Technology Coordinators and Specialists Trades and Technical Teachers Twitter Mentors Video Conference Coordinators Video Conference Content Providers Writing Teachers 21st Century Learning Focus

Alternative Education Teachers
Art Teachers
Assessment Positions
Athletic Directors
Bible/Religion Teachers
Bilingual Education Teachers
Business
College and University
Computer Science Teachers
Counselors (Guidance)
Design & Technology
Digital Media Teachers
Drama Teachers
e-Learning Teachers
Early Childhood
Educational Organizations or Companies
Educational Interpreters for the Deaf Elementary Teachers
eMINTS People
English and Communication Arts Teachers

English as a Second Language Teachers
Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers
Food and Culinary Arts Teachers Foreign Language Teachers
Geography Teachers
Gifted Teachers
Health and Wellbeing Teachers Homebound Teachers
Independent Studies Teachers Interactive Whiteboard People Journalism
Librarians
LiteracyCoaches
Math Teachers
Middle School Teachers
Music Teachers
National Board Certified Teachers
Other School District Administrators

Physical Education Teachers
Pre-service Teachers
Principals
Professional Development People
Psychologists (School)
Reading Teachers
Retired Teachers
RTI
Schools on Twitter
Science Teachers
Social Studies Teachers
Special Education Teachers Superintendents
Technology Coordinators and Specialists
Trades and Technical Teachers
Twitter Mentors
Video Conference Coordinators
Video Conference Content Providers
Writing Teachers
21st Century Learning Focus

Tools for Finding More Edu-Tweeps	Description
WeFollow	A searchable community that allows users to attach 3 keyword tags to one's own Twitter ID.
Mr. Tweet	In Twitter, Mr. Tweet is the twitterid of a tool that you can use to find other people to follow. The first step is to find and follow Mr. Tweet within Twitter...
Twitter Grader	Developed by Hubspot, this tool attempts to measure a Twitterer's influence by assessing the users network of users and his/her interactions among users. The site offers a 'search' tab, which allows you to find other interesting people to follow.
IndyKidsNet	A free paper for free kids. IndyKids encourages young people to think about current events and issues from a progressive prospective. Headlines now available on Twitter.
Follow Famous	Movie stars, musicians, heroes, athletes and much more are available for following in a directory format.
Twibes	Another way to find folks to follow... simply enter your Twitter ID for recommendations.
Twitter4Teachers	If you're looking for a list of Twitter users like you
Learning Professionals on Twitter	Jane Hart's Directory lists in alphabetical order (by Twitter username) learning professionals from both education and corporate training, as well as other related professionals and e-learning products and services.
Who Should I Follow	Just plug your Twitter ID into the engine and receive recommendations of who you might want to follow.
Educators on Twitter	Collaborative Google docs spreadsheet of educators on twitter by @lizbdavis. Be sure to add your info.
Higher Education people on Twitter	Collaborative Google docs spreadsheet of higher education institutions and people on twitter by@jaycollier
100 Edutweeters	List compiled by Courtney Phillips
Follow Friday	Every Friday, folks from across the Twittersphere are invited to recommend people worth following. You can track the results and follow the folks you find most interesting.
50 Celebrities on Twitter	Guilty pleasure, curiosity or entertainment, here are the top 50 celebrities sending tweets.
Twellow	The Twitter Yellow Pages
50 Social Media Innovators in Higher Education	List of twitter, facebook, blogs and more run by higher ed. institutions
Tweeple pages	Tweeple Pages is a directory of Twitter users organized by their interests.

Within the Twitter for Teachers site, you may wish to view or edit the List of Educators on Twitter.
Additional tools for finding the relationships among Twitterers can be found on the Twitter & Your PLN page.

Contributors

JenniferLynch — Wed, 04 May 2011 11:13:02 CDT

Contributors are invited to add themselves to the "Twitter for Teachers" Google Map; and to the spreadsheet below. * Note: In order to access the map from the link above you must to be logged in to your Google account.

Name	Twitter ID	Country	Website
Rodd Lucier	thecleversheep	Canada	The Clever Sheep
Jean-Louis Bontront	jeanbont	Canada	jeanbont.wordpress.com
David Baroody	dave_baroody	US
Sean Williams	seani	US	the third rail
Martin Waxman	martinwaxman	Canada	Martin's Palette
Shannon Yelland	shannonyelland	Canada	SiteMasher
Michael Redfearn	redfearn	Canada	Mcluhansghost
Carol Cooper-Taylor	kiwicarol	New Zealand	Blog By Carol
Bud Talbot	Bud_T	US	Bud Talbot
Kim Trefz	ktrefz	US	Mrs. Trefz's 5th Grade Blog
Danny Silva	iteachag	US	Iteachag's Blog
James Sigler	jsigler	US	What is School 2.0?
François Rivest	recitfr	Canada	Alpha Balado Constructivisme
Karen Chichester	kchichester	US	Squirrelly View of Education
Jane Fensome	BreconJane	UK
Dolors Reig (dreig)	dreig	Spain	El caparazón
Peter Pappas	edteck	US	Copy / Paste
Carol Arcomano	cpenguin	US
Bill Graziadei	wgraziadei	USA	(e)Learning & Web2.0 - Now & Beyond
Danika Barker	danikabarker	Canada	The Barker Blog
Deirdre Bonnycastle	Bonnycastle	Canada	Active Learning Blog Carnival
Anita Strang	astrang	Canada	Thinking UDL
Jim Buckingham	buckinsand	UAE
Liz Pullen	nwjerseyliz	USA
Zoi Abrazi	abrazi	Greece	My school through time
Jeremy Connor	Techinfoguy	US
Jennifer Lynch	PhJenX	USA	Ms. Lynch's Choir Class Choral Music Education Blog

Training Resources & Links

thecleversheep — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:34:55 CDT

'Twitter for Social Learning'

100 Tips, Apps, and Resources for Teachers on Twitter

Advice for Teachers New to Twitter

The Software Developer's Ultimate Guide to Twitter Tools

Mashable's Twitter Guide

25 Classroom Uses for Twitter

Twitter Mentorship for Educators

Vital Twittering in 5 minutes

List of Twitter Resources and Ideas for Educators

100 Twitter Feeds to Make you a Better Teacher

100 more Twitter Feeds for Teaching Advice

Build a Twitter channel or backchannel for your class

20 Step Starter's Guide to Twitter

100 Tips and Apps for Twitter

100 Twitter Tools for Teachers

Nine Reasons to Twitter in Schools

Top 10 Types of Tweets

100 Authors on Twitter

30 Twitter Tutorials for New & Experienced Users

Twitter in the Classroom

Twitter Handbook for Teachers

How We Twitter, Case Study with survey of relevant literatures.

6 Ways to Use Twitter

Become a Twitter Teacher in 23 Steps or Less

118 Ways to Tweet

Advice in writing your Twitter Profile

Illustrated Guide to Using Twitter

Nine Reasons Why Teachers Should Use Twitter

14 Types of Twitter Personalities

Bernie Dodge's Intro to Twitter for Educators

Great Tips on How to Search Twitter

Twitter Games

Using the Twitter BackChannel in Presentations

50 Ideas for using Twitter in Education Move to 'Twitter in the Classroom' (* content already reproduced there by the author: Carol Cooper-Taylor)

Top 15 Twitter acronyms

10 commandments for Twitter (recommendations really)

Other things you can do in Twitter

Top 10 Things New People to Twitter Should Know

Top 7 Mistakes of New Twitter Folks

Twitter Etiquette: 5 Do's and Don'ts

Quick Start Tips: Sue Waters

NYT's @pogue on Twitter

Can we use Twitter for educational activities?

Group Twitter Feeds (RSS subscriptions)

More Useful Tools

Top Twitter mashups as measured by Delicious bookmarks (Jan 2009)

10 Things that Might Change Your Mind about Twitter

Twitter Fan Wiki

Twitter 4 TeachersThis PBWiki is a collaborative effort to get educators connected in a global community.

100 Tips, Apps, and Resources for Teachers on Twitter

Fast Forward Blog Guide to Twitter

Music + Twitter = Love

Twitter at Conferences: a few ideas

http://mashable.com/2008/11/10/twitter-community/

http://mashable.com/2009/01/29/twitter-tools-for-firefox/

http://mashable.com/2009/02/16/twitter-professors/

http://help.twitter.com/portal

http://search.tearn.com/2009/01/learning-twitter.html

Twitter for educational purposes- A tutorial

Educhat

thecleversheep — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:04:11 CST

Our final Educhat took place on May 25, 2009. Thanks to the popularity of our hashtag, and the subsequent invasion of spammers 45-60 minutes into our discussion, future chats were put on hiatus.

Those interested in continuing synchronous education chats, can join #edchat events that are hosted on most Tuesdays.

Educhat is one example of the potential of twitter-based synchronous events. Modeled after #journchat discussions, which are ongoing conversations among journalists, the educhat format/context has the potential to create a specific framework within twitter for having education-related discussions and tracking those discussions using the hashtag #educhat. For more information on hashtags, see the Synchronous Events page.

If you are interested in participating synchronous discussions at a specific date/time, please take the time to add your suggestions to the form below. Read more about "The Launch of Educhat".

Suggested Questions to date. Session 1 Wordle	Example: Educhat Read from Bottom to Top For other examples, visit www.hashtags.org

Suggested Questions to date.

Session 1 Wordle

Example: Educhat
Read from Bottom to Top
For other examples, visit www.hashtags.org

Twitter Dictionary

AlecPatton — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:48:08 CST

The starting content for this page has been provided courtesy of Martin Waxman and Shannon Yelland. Each has graciously agreed to allow us to repurpose their work as Twitter Dictionary.

Another resource that would be worth cross-referencing: http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Twitter+Glossary

Twitterverse by Jess3 & Brian Solis

Pre-alpha

1 – ( shorthand ) one, won
2 - ( shorthand ) to, too, two
30 Boxes - (tool) has tight Twitter integration. After adding Twitter to your Web Stuff, you can view twitters from you and friends and you can post directly to Twitter
4 - (shorthand ) for, four
4U – ( shorthand ) for you
4ward - ( shorthand ) forward

ab or abt – ( shorthand ) about
afaik – (shorthand) as far as I know

B – ( shorthand ) be
b/c – ( shorthand ) because
b4 – ( shorthand ) before
BFN – ( shorthand ) bye for now
bgd – ( shorthand ) background
BiggerTwitter - (tool) A service similar to Twitzer which allows you to post longer messages, although works by placing a link in the Tweet
BigTweet - (tool) - BigTweet installs as a bookmarklet to your browser and allows you to post to Twitter from any web page. Insert special Unicode characters and shorten URLs
Blackbird - (mobile tool) a Twitter client for BlackBerry smartphones
Blogo - (mac tool) A weblog editor which is also a full-featured Twitter client integrated with Twitpic, tinyURL, tweetburner and Ping.fm
BLT – ( linux tool ) Perl script that lets you see what your friends are doing right from the Terminal
BR - ( shorthand ) best regards
BTW – ( shorthand ) by the way

CelebrityTweet - (tool) Stalk or follow celebrities on Twitter as they tweet in real-time
CheckYesOrNo.info - (tool) Create simple yes or no polls and use the 'send to twitter' feature to easily share with your twitter buddies. It's like those notes you used to get from girls back in junior high.
Chirrup – ( windows tool ) Twitter client with extensive Japanese language support
chk - ( shorthand ) check
cld – ( shorthand ) could
clk – ( shorthand ) click
Cullect - (tool) Collaborative feed reader optimized for Twitter; sign in with your Twitter id, post to twitter. Cullect also auto-expands shortened urls. More info at @cullect

da – ( shorthand ) the
deets – ( shorthand ) details
DM – ( shorthand ) direct message
Drunktwittering – ( term ) Similar to drunk dialing
Dweet – ( term ) Tweet sent while drunk
Dwigger - (tool) Threaded conversations and voting for Twitter

Educhat - (sample use) a format for synchronous discussion on Twitter among educators
EM/eml – ( shorthand ) email
EMA – ( shorthand ) email address

F2F – ( shorthand ) face to face (as in meeting someone in person)
fab – ( shorthand ) fabulous
fav/fave – ( shorthand ) favorite
Feedalizr – (tool) A free desktop application that allows you to view, rate and comment on what your friends are sharing online. Tweet, upload pics to Flickr, update your Facebook status, keep up to date with your friends’ Google Reader, Digg, Tumblr, YouTube and Last.fm posts on Friendfeed.
fitURL - (tool) fitURL creates short URLs just like tinyURL exccept it fights spam by checking for spam URLs, which makes it much more reliable.
Flotzam - (windows tool) A Mash Up of Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and blogs, completely configurable
Follow – (action) Choosing to sign up to receive someone's Tweets
Follow+UserName – (action) The instruction to keep up with a user's flow of Twitter messages
Followers - ( term ) People who follow your updates
FoodFeed - (tool) Twitter-based food log. Track what you eat by prefixing a message with @having, or direct messaging having
FreeTweets - (tool) Cool collections of hottest Twitter Backgrounds
Friendfeed – ( tool ) Puts all of our RSS content onto one page, making it easy to see from one glance (rather than going to different properties) and you can even reply from friendfeed to different tools. It’s smarter to organize around people, rather than tools
Friendorfollow – ( tool ) Find out who you're following that's not following you back, and who's following you that you're not following back
FuelFrog - (tool) Use Twitter to keep a log of your fuel and mileage. Compare your mileage with others in your area, or with the same car
FTW! – For the win!
fwd - ( shorthand ) forward
FYI – ( shorthand ) for your information

Geotwitter – (action) Tracks the geographical location of the most recent Tweets
Get+UserName - (action) A command that retrieves the most recent updated Tweet from that user
Google Snackr – ( tool ) Snackr is an RSS ticker that pulls random items from your feeds and scrolls them across your desktop. When you see a title that looks interesting, you can click on it to pop up the item in a window.
GR8 – ( shorthand ) great
Green Tweets – (tool) Tracks tweets about green & environmental topics based on semantic natural language analysis rather than keyword
gTwitter – ( linux tool ) GTK+ based app inspired by Twitterrific

Hashtag – ( term ) Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They're like tags or categories, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag.

IC – ( shorthand ) I see
IM - ( shorthand ) instant message
IMHO – ( shorthand ) in my humble opinion
IRL – ( shorthand ) for in real life
iTweet – ( mobile tool ) A mobile Twitter site designed for the iPhone
iTwit – ( mobile tool ) Mobile version of Twitter made for the iPhone
itz - ( shorthand ) it is

Jack Dorsey – (person) Widely acknowledged as the inventor of Twitter
Jaiku – ( tool ) A competitor of Twitter, currently owned by Google
Jargong - ( mobile tool ) Browse Flickr, do some social networking, but most importantly, check and publish tweets
JK or j/k – ( shorthand ) just kidding
JSYK – ( shorthand ) just so you know
jTwitter – ( mobile tool ) View timelines, enter updates, and more, all on your mobile phone

K – ( shorthand ) okay
kewl – ( shorthand ) cool
KipFolio Widget – ( windows tool ) Simple Twitter widget for KipFolio

L8 – ( shorthand ) late
L8er – ( shorthand ) later
LiveTwitting - (tool) Use LiveTwitting for your next conference, event, or meeting instead of liveblogging. Simple commands to turn recording on and off, all through Twitter.
LMAO – ( shorthand ) laughing my ass off
lmk – ( shorthand ) let me know
LOL – ( shorthand ) laughing out loud
Loudtwitter – ( tool ) Automatically transfer your Tweets directly to your blog

MadTwitter – ( windows tool ) A reincarnation of Twitterrific, except on Windows
Micro-blog - ( term ) A tiny way to blog. Twitter only allows 140 characters and classified as a micro-blog
mil – ( shorthand ) million
Mistweet – ( term ) A message or 'Tweet' that was sent in error or one later regrets
MoniTwitter – ( tool ) Receive important updates about your site via Twitter

Njoy – ( shorthand ) enjoy
Nudge+UserName - (action) A Twitter command used to remind a Friend to update their Twitter status

Obvious – (company) The American company based in California that created Twitter.
OH – ( shorthand ) overheard
OMG – ( shorthand ) oh my god/gosh

peeps – ( shorthand ) people
picobuzz - (tool) Shows popular buzz words from the public timeline and who's sayin' them!
PingTwitter - (tool) Ping your Twitter account from your blog so it auto updates when you make a new blog post
plz – ( shorthand ) please
pockettweets – ( mobile tool ) A Web-based Twitter client for the Apple iPhone.
Politweets - ( tool ) A tool for tracking Tweets relating to politics
pple – ( shorthand ) people
props – ( shorthand ) proper respect
Pwytter – ( windows tool ) Cross platform Python Twitter client with Asian character support

Quotably – ( tool ) A ‘conversation’ tracker, it threads together the discussions that members are having by looking at the replies, interesting to see how conversations spiral into different threads. Follow the Tweets of a particular user in a threaded style
Qwitter - (tool) App sends you an email when someone stops following you

R – ( shorthand ) are
ReporTwitters – ( term ) Bunch of journalists publishing 'reality style' tweets in conjunction with their articles
Retweetme : ( tool & action) Use Twitter to remind yourself of things you might forget. When the time comes, Twitter will message you the reminder.
ROFL – ( shorthand ) rolling on the floor laughing
RSS2Twitter – ( tool ) Share any RSS feed on Twitter, and have new RSS items automatically be tweeted
RT / Retweet – ( shorthand ) when you repeat a tweet from someone else
RU? - ( shorthand ) are you?
Ruby on Rails : The programming language used to create and develop Twitter

Saytweet – ( tool ) Create a Twitter badge that shows your updates on a picture!Upload a picture and then tag some Twitter users in that picture. Voila − that's all it takes to make a dynamic mashup like the one above. Give it a try, and then share the badge!
Search Plugin – ( browser plugin tool ) Tweet right from the Firefox search box
Shareaholic – ( browser plugin tool ) Share links and webpages via Twitter right within Firefox
shld – ( shorthand ) should
SnapTweet – ( mobile tool ) Snapping a mobile photo, uploading to Flickr, and using http://snaptweet.com/to post it to your Twitter stream
Spaz – ( cross-platform tool ) Desktop client built with AIR
Summize: ( search tool ) For searching the content of hundreds of thousands of Tweets. As of fall 2008 it is twitter.search.com
Snitter – (tool) lots of features with a great UI make this Twitter client stand out from the crowd. Built on AIR.
StrawPoll - (tool) Tiny daily polls in 140 characters or less

Teletwitter – ( windows tool ) Experimental open source client
Terraminds – ( search tool ) Search for specific users or tweets
thx/tx – ( shorthand ) thanks
TIA - ( shorthand ) thanks in advance
TikiTwit – ( mac tool) Match your iChat status to your last tweet
TinyTwitter – ( mobile tool ) works with any Java enabled device (that's a bunch & includes the CrackBerry) and any Windows Mobile Pocket PC or Smartphone
TopNewsTrends - (tool) Top News Trends combines google trends data with twitter search
TrackThis - (tool) Track your FedEx, UPS, USPS and DHL packages using Twitter direct messages
TreoTwit – ( mobile tool ) Easily check and update your Twitter right from your Treo.
Triqqr – ( windows tool ) Submit tweets directly to Twitter and view user profiles
ttyl – ( shorthand ) talk to you later
ttys - ( shorthand ) talk to you soon
Twadd – ( term ) To add someone as a friend - mutual followers
Twadget – ( windows tool ) Simple gadget that lets you view and submit tweets right from Vista’s Sidebar
Twaffic – ( term ) Twitter traffic
Twaggle – ( term ) A gaggle of followers
Twaigslist – ( term ) To sell something via twitter. Also Twebay.
Twaiting – ( term ) Twittering while waiting
Twappi - (tool) Daily Twitter mood
Twardware – ( term ) Twitter hardware
Twashdot – ( term ) News for twitterers. Stuff that doesn't matter
Twaunt – ( term ) To taunt someone over twitter
Twautocomplete – (tool) Firefox extension to add autocomplete on Twitter.com for @-messages and d-messages
Twead – ( term ) To read a twitter
Twebay – ( term ) To offer something for sale via twitter. Also Twaigslist.
Tweekend – ( term ) Spending your entire Saturday and Sunday reading and posting via Twitter
Tweepish – ( term ) Feeling sheepish or regretful about something you tweeted
Tweeple – ( term ) Twitter people, Twitter members, Twitter users
Tweeps – ( term ) Twitterites that follow each other from one social media/network to another
tweeps / tweeple – ( term ) peeps / people (on Twitter)
Tweet Pushers – ( term ) Writers (guest bloggers) whose ideas and suggestions that will be featured at The Wall Tweet Journal
Tweet(ing) – ( term ) The act of posting to Twitter
Tweetaholism – ( term ) The continued use of Twitter as an addiction that is difficult to control
Tweetard – ( term ) A twitter retard.
Tweet-back – ( term ) Bringing a previous tweet conversation or reference back into the current conversation.
Tweetbar – ( browser plugin tool ) Put Twitter on your Firefox sidebar.
Tweetbeep – ( tool ) an alert email service where you can filter keywords.
Tweetburner - ( tool ) a url shortener with stats
Tweetdeck – ( cross-platform tool ) an Adobe Air desktop application. TweetDeck enables users to split their main feed (All Tweets) into topic or group specific columns allowing a broader overview of tweets.
Tweet-dropping – ( term ) Eavesdropping on someone’s else’s Home Page in With Friends mode.
Tweeter – ( cross-platform tool ) Java based client with customizable UI.
Tweeter – ( term ) A user of Twitter (compare: Twitterer).
Tweeterboxes – ( term ) Twitterers who tweet too much
Tweetheart – ( term ) That special someone who makes your heart skip a beat
Tweettionary - (term) Synonym to twittionary
TweetIn - ( term) When a group of twitterers agree to get together at a set time to twitter
Tweetlater - ( tool ) Keep your Twitter stream ticking over with new tweets even when you're not in front of your computer. Or, use it as your personal reminder system.Send automated thank you notes to new followers, and automatically follow new followers,if you choose to do so.
Tweetr – ( cross-platform tool ) Submit tweets, upload files, urltea built in, delete messages.
Tweets - (term) Posts on Twitter by twitterers.
Tweetscan – ( search tool ) Search by term and username.
Tweetsulted, Tweetsult – ( term ) insult
Tweetup – ( shorthand ) an in-person meet up of Twitter members
Tweetwhatyoueat - (tool) Your daily food diary. Setup your own Twitter food diary in moments
Tweetwhatyouspend - (tool) Cash tracking made simple through Twitter
TweetWheel – ( tool ) Find out which of your Twitter friends know each other
Twellow – ( tool ) A directory that categorize twitter users into the various categories
Twerminology – ( term )Twitter terminology
Twerpscan – ( tool ) Check the number of followers of everyone on your contact list, the number of people they are following, and the ratio between those. If the person is following more than (n) people (can be customised), and has a followers-to-following ratio higher than 1:(m) (can be customised), you'll be notified by a link.
Twessenger – ( windows tool ) Updates Live Messenger status to reflect latest tweet
Twestival - (term) Twitter festival; a global charitable event organized by volunteers on Twitter to raise funds for a social cause.
Twexplanation – ( term ) Sending a nebulous tweet and having to explain it while offline from twitter
Twhepherd – ( term ) The Twitter employee that finds and restores lost followers to your twaggle
Twhiner – ( term ) A twitterer who only ever posts whiney, negative tweets
Twhirl – ( tool ) A desktop client for the Twitter microblogging platform, powered by Adobe AIR. Connects to multiple Twitter , laconi.ca , Friendfeed and seesmic accounts
Twideo-cronicity – ( term ) When you’re watching someone’s videos and they are simultaneously leaving a comment or tweet for/at/about you.
Twidget – ( mac tool ) Update your Twitter status within Dashboard
twidroid - (tool) the first full-featured twitter client for android mobile phones
twiggit - (tool) twiggit is an automated service that lets your friends on twitter know what articles you digg
Twike – ( term ) To ride a bike with twitter
Twinja – ( cross-platform tool ) AIR based client which allows you to follow users on the fly
Twinfluence - (tool) a simple tool using the Twitter API to to measure the combined influence of twitterers and their followers, with a few social network statistics thrown in as bonus
TwinkedIn – ( term ) Inviting friends made on Twitter to “connect with you on LinkedIn
Twinkle – ( mobile tool ) Contact old friends and make new ones, all with Twinkle, the location-aware network for the iPhone and iPod Touch
Twippera – ( browser plugin tool ) Twitter widget for Opera that can send and view tweets
Twis – ( term ) To dis a fellow twitterer. Bad form.
Twist – ( tool ) See trends in twitter
Twisticuffs – ( term ) Fighting with a fellow twitterer over twitter
Twit.el – ( linux tool ) Another utility that allows publishing of tweets within Emacs
Twit4Live – ( windows tool ) Set status message as latest tweet, send tweets from within Live Messenger, and send tweets to contacts
Twitbar – ( linux tool ) Post tweets from the GNOME deskbar
TwitBin – ( browser plugin tool ) TwitBin is an extension for firefox that brings the power of twitter right in your browser. Send and view tweets right within it.
TwitBox – ( windows tool ) Desktop client. View and submit tweets, see replies and direct messages, delete your own tweets, and multiple account support
TwitDir - (tool) A Twitter directory, no more. You are looking for someone, something? Just type a few words in the search engine.
Twitgit – ( mac tool ) Read your friend’s tweets and submit your own, right in Dashboard
Twitic - (term) A person who reviews movies on Twitter.
Twitkit – ( browser tool ) TwitKit is a Twitter sidebar for Firefox. TwitKit has a 6-section interface, using tabs to separate content.
Twitosphere – ( term ) Community of twitterers
Twitpic – ( tool ) TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter .You can post pictures to TwitPic from your phone, our API , or through the site itself.
Twitspiration - (term) - Tweets that inspire other people on Twitter.
Twittionary - (term) Twitter dictionary, you're here. Also see tweetionary.
Twitt(url)y – ( tool ) A service for tracking what URLs people are talking about as they talk about them on twitter.
Twittastic – ( term ) Fantastic, wonderful, superb; coined by the folks at Twitterholic when referring to their robots.
Twittcrastination - ( term ) Twittering as a form of procrastination
Twittduit – ( term ) If you need to Tweet a friend that does not follow you, post a Twittduit asking your followers to pass a message.
Twittectomy - ( term ) unfollowing friends
Twittelator – ( mobile tool ) C omplete iPhone twitter client . Available through the App Store.
TweetAhead – ( mac tool ) Schedule tweets to be posted ahead of time with a simple Dashboard widget
Twitter CLI – ( windows tool ) Post tweets via the command line
Twitter for Vim – ( linux tool ) Publish tweets right within Vim
Twitter.el – ( linux tool ) Publish tweets while in Emacs
Twitter100 - View 100 Tweets at a time
Twitterati – ( term ) The glamorous A-List twitterer's everyone wants to follow
Twitterbate – ( term ) To masturbate to another user's tweets
TwitterBerry – ( mobile tool ) Twitter built for various BlackBerry devices. Update and view timelines with ease
TwitterBuzz – ( tool ) Find out what domains are being most linked to on Twitter
Twittercal mass – ( term ) A community that has achieved a critical mass of twitterers
TwitterCard - (tool) Create a 125x125 Twitter business card widget to put on your blog and display bio and recent status
Twittercounter - (tool) Counts and tracks your followers over time
Twitterer - ( term ) A user of Twitter (compare: Tweeter)
twitterfeed.com - (tool) "feed your blog to twitter". submit your blog's feed, and get your new blog posts twittered automatically
Twitterfly – ( term ) Being a social butterfly on Twitter evidenced by extreme usage of @ signs
TwitterFox – ( browser plugin tool ) Compact Firefox extension that can publish and view tweets. ( previously known as TwitterNotifier )
Twittergrader – ( tool ) Twitter Grader gives you a grade based on the power of your Twitter profile.
Twitterholic – ( tool ) Shows the top users and accounts on Twitter
Twittering – ( term ) To send a Twitter message
Twitterish - ( term ) Erractic behavior with short outbursts
Twitteritas – ( term ) Women who play with their twitters
Twitterject – ( term ) Interject your tweet into an existing tweet stream of conversation
Twitter-ku – ( term ) Those who either post on both Twitter and Jaiku or load their
Twitterless - (tool) Twitterless will notify you when somebody stops following you and tell you who it is and your follower history is graphed out over time
Twitterlex – ( mac tool ) A simple Mac OS X Dashboard Widget that shows you the last 30 twitters by you and your Twitter friends, updating every 60 seconds when visible
Twitterlicious – ( windows tool ) Update Twitter status, easily check replies and direct messages
Twitter-Light Zone – ( term ) Where you are when you return to Twitter after any time away and feel disoriented and lost
TwitterLinkr – ( tool ) A service collecting the best links posted trough Twitter
Twitterlocal - ( tool ) Filter finds tweets based upon a users profile location. If you’ve a local business, this could become useful. Lets you generate an RSS or XML Feed to filter out Tweets around a certain area.
Twitterlooing - ( term ) Twittering from a bathroom
Twitterloop – ( term ) To be caught up with friend tweets and up on the conversation
Twittermaps – ( tool ) A mashup technology that lets Twitter users find each other using Google maps
Twittermob – ( term ) An unruly and ragtag horde of people who descend on an ill-prepared location after a provocative Twitter message
Twitteroo – ( windows tool ) Client with URL shortening, clickable links and tweets, customization, and both public and friend timelines
Twitterpated - ( term )To be overwhelmed with Twitter messages
Twitterphoria – ( term ) The elation you feel when the person you’ve added as a friend adds you back
Twitter.PollDaddy.com - (tool) Create Polldaddy polls and post them directly to your Twitter stream
TwitterPost – ( mac tool ) Basic client that submits tweets, shows your current iTunes track in your feed, and more
Twitterrhea – ( term ) The act of sending too many Twitter messages
Twitterrific – ( mobile & platform tool ) Twitterrific is a fun application that lets you both read and publish posts or "tweets" to the Twitter community website
Twitterrific ( term ) - a really good Twitter thing
Twittersearch – ( search tool ) Search Twitter and tweets by word.(formerly summize.com)
Twitterstream – ( term ) the twitter timeline (public or friends)
Twitter SPY - (tool) Twitter SPY displays the Twitter public timeline
TwitterSync for Yahoo – (windows tool) Syncs Twitter status with Yahoo Messenger status
Twittertise - (tool) Twittertise allows you to schedule in advance and track the clickthroughs on tweets. Ideal for advertisers looking to measure effectiveness
Twittertories – ( term ) Clusters of twittererers that follow and friend each other with little overlap with other clusters
Twittertude – ( term ) Bad Twitter attitude. Or a state of being, like solitude only with other people present
Twittervision – ( tool ) See where in the world people are submitting tweets from, real time
TwitterYM – ( windows tool ) Simple Yahoo Messenger status updater
Twittfeinated, Twigged Out, Twired – ( term ) To be so hyped up on twittering that you cannot sleep
Twittfessional – ( term ) A confession made on Twitter
TwitThis – ( tool ) Allow visitors to your site to easily share a page or post via Twitter
Twitticisms – ( term ) Witty tweets
Twittilate – ( term ) To arouse with tweets
Twittish – ( term ) Too skittish to twitter
Twittonary – ( term ) dictionary of twitter terminology, originally coined by Shannon Yelland. You're here. Also see tweettionary.
Twittsomnia – ( term ) Twittering due to inability to sleep, thus compounding inability to sleep
Twittworking – ( term ) Networking with Twitterites using Twitter
TwittyTunes – ( browser plugin tool ) A FoxyTunes (Firefox extension) addon that posts what you’re currently listening to Twitter
Twitux – ( linux tool ) Twitter client for the GNOME desktop
Twitwall - (tool ) When its too long to tweet, but too short to blog, just TwitWall it! TwitWall is the easy-to-use, quick-to-blast-out blog companion for Twitter.
Twitxr – ( tool ) Share pictures from your mobile phone. Automatically publish them on social networks and photosharing sites
Twixt and tween – ( term ) Can't decide who or what to tweet
Twode – ( term ) To hack on the twitter API
Twofor – ( term ) Replying to two unrelated twitter messages with a single tweet
TwoingTwoing – ( term ) To twitter about wonderful things
Twoogle – ( term ) Twitter as the human Google. Pose a question, get near-instantaneous results
Twoops – ( term ) When you accidentally send a private sms to Twitter
Twoosh – ( term ) A full 140 character twitter
Twopsies – ( term ) When you drop things because you are twittering
Twocabulary - (term) Twitter vocabulary
Tword – ( term ) Words formed by appending “Tw” to the original word (like most words in this list)
Twouche – ( term ) Someone acting like a big fat jerk via twitter
Twurvey – ( term ) a survey sent out over Twitter
Twuzzer - (tool) Twitter/GoogleMaps mashup
Twype – ( term ) to type a twitter
TY – ( shorthand ) thanks
TYT – ( shorthand ) take your time
TYVM – ( shorthand ) thank you very much

U – ( shorthand ) you
u’ve – ( shorthand ) for you have
ur – ( shorthand ) your
Useqwitter – ( tool ) emails when a twitter stops following you after a certain post

V2V – ( shorthand ) voice to voice (as in chatting on the phone)

w or w/ - ( shorthand ) with
w/e – ( shorthand ) weekend
w00t! – ( shorthand ) an expression of joy/excitement
wazzup?/whaddup? – ( shorthand ) what’s up?
wdyt - (shorthand) what do you think?
What’s Up? – ( windows vista tool ) Gadget that allows you to see latest tweets from your friends
WildSets – ( mobile tool ) Extensve Twitter app for mobile phones. Support more than 300 phones
wld – ( shorthand ) would
woz – ( shorthand ) was
wtf – ( shorthand ) what the f***
wth – ( shorthand ) what the heck

X Y

yammer – ( tool ) a similar mico-blogging software to Twitter but for enterprise companies and can be used as an intranet solution. This company won the Techcrunch50 award in fall of 2008.
Yoono – (tool) Receive alerts, update your status or message your friends in your browser sidebar. No need to switch from one site to another or from your browser to a desktop app anymore. The perfect tool to become a twitter heavy user without spending hours on it. Yoono also integrates many other services : facebook, flickr, friendfeed, major IM services.
yr – ( shorthand ) your
YVW – ( shorthand ) you’re very welcome
YW - ( shorthand ) you’re welcome

ZenTwitter – ( linux tool ) A GUI frontend for Twitter using zenity and curl

Elementary School

KRM/EJD — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:28:38 CDT

Project Ideas	Overview	Links
Historic Tweets	students develop interface and messages as historic or fictional characters might have communicated in 140 character tweets	sample historic tweets Sample for Canadian History
Adopt Someone	use Twitter to keep grandparents or other community members in the loop	CBC's Spark episode #67 has an interview with a grandparent on Twitter
Summary	Students summarize in 140 characters or less. Forces them to focus on the important stuff!
Book Lists	Create a classroom Twitter account and use it for book recommendations. Keep kids reading through the summer!
Bonus/Fun Homework	Tweet a bonus or fun assignment at night, like "bring me a drawing of a snail" and give students a small prize or sticker.
School wide Puzzle	Tweet a puzzle every week on Monday at 10:17 and give a prize to the first student who turns in the correct answer to the office. Well, this would just motivate students to use their cell phones in class, but it would be fun!
Tweet Pals	Have pen pals at another school over Twitter.

Attendance Reminders	Create a Twitter group of students who could benefit from on-time reminders. Send tweet to group in am before school, reminding students that you are looking forward to seeing them that day.

Twitter & Your PLN

akamomteach — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:13:18 CDT

For many, Twitter is the way they actively engage in conversation with members of their Personal Learning Network.

Q. How can I bring more non-Twitter teachers to this micro-blogging tool?

A. I would suggest that sharing the wide variety of uses of Twitter might be a good starting point. The Why is the Fail Whale Smiling slideshow that can be helpful in this regard:

Q. How does Twitter act as a connector?

A. My Personal Learning Plan is all about connecting across age, gender, race, location and occupation in order to improve education. I was introduced to Twitter by a medical student in Portugal, soon after joining I met a doctor in England, a midwife in New Zealand and a school principal in Northern Saskatchewan. They in turn connected me to others. Each of these people has shared links, ideas and questions that have improved my understanding of teaching.

Q. What tools can I use to see who is in my Personal Learning Network?

A. There are many Twitter tools that you can use to Visualize Your Network. The table below can be used to reference tools used by the group. If you use a tool for this purpose, please feel free to add it below!

Tool	Description
Mailana	Who do you and your Tweetmates communicate with most regularly?
Resources for Teachers on Twitter	100 Tips, Apps, and Resources for Teachers on Twitter http://onlinecollegedegree.org/2009/03/19/100-tips-apps-and-resources-for-teachers-on-twitter/
Friend feed	http://friendfeed.com
Tweet Grid	Helps me to look at/find people talking about topics of interest to me...or just track talk
Group Tools	http://mashable.com/2009/02/15/twitter-groups-3/

Secondary School

brober — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:58:39 CDT

Ideas as a starting point...
http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dhn2vcv5_118cfb8msf8

Project Ideas	Overview	Links
Historic Tweets	students develop interface and messages as historic or fictional characters might have communicated in 140 character tweets	sample historic tweets 25 Dead People on Twitter
7 Tweets to Change the World	students brainstorm and create 7 tweets to send to the principal of their school. Each tweet should identify and outline one strategy the principal can implement in the school community to make the world a better place.	101 Ways Your School Can Change The World
Twitter with iPod Touch in the Classroom	How to use Twitter, iPod touch, and TweetDeck to engage students in learning 140 characters at a time.	Bookminder's post
Adopt Someone	use Twitter to keep grandparents or other community members in the loop	CBC's Spark episode #67 has an interview with a grandparent on Twitter
Inspirational Tweet Quote of the Day	Students alternate devising an inspirational tweet quote for each school day. Bonus marks go to students who can find inspirational quotes that relate to the course content.	- motivational quotes of the day - Famous Inspirational Quotes
Summary	Students create a 140 character summary. Forces them to focus on the important stuff!
Book Lists	Create a classroom account that only students access and use it to recommend books. Keep kids reading through the summer. Students will need to be creative in "hooking" their peers to read in only 140 characters.
Current events	Students tweet current event and provide a link for further reading.
Classroom Ideas	Teach Paperless has a number of ideas about using Twitter in the classroom	Using Twitter in the Classroom Latin Test via Twitter More ideas...
Parent communication	Have parents sign up to receive tweets from teachers. The tweets can be about a week's activities test/projects/units of study, etc. This way parents can stay informed about their child's learning at this age when parents seem to have more difficulty staying connected.

more ideas

Twitter in the Classroom

mccandlj — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:57:00 CDT

Next Steps Discussion

thecleversheep — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:41:48 CDT

If enough folks are interested, We can host a synchronous meeting to talk about a number of issues related to the organization of this site. Many ideas can be discussed: publishing; organization; promotion; sharing the load...

If you have questions or ideas for consideration that will help this resource take further shape, feel free to add them below.

1] Are there members you'd recommend as 'moderators' of site chapters/pages?

2] Would it be prudent to publish this work? If so, in what format? When?

3] Would funds allow this project to go further, faster? If so, are there grant applications we should consider?

4] ...

Educhat #6

thecleversheep — Sun, 24 May 2009 21:01:29 CDT

Nourishing Creativity in the Classroom

Having had experiences both as a student and teacher, you've had the opportunity to experience learning from both sides. This week's discussion will focus on how teachers and students can capitalize on creativity to ensure education continues to evolve.

Which classroom experiences have had the greatest impact on you... A] as a student B] as a teacher?
Which expectations in current curriculum documents are most relevant for todays learners?
Is creativity about personalization or collaboration; neither or both?
Can multiple intelligences theory or strategies of differentiation help? How?
What types of classroom activities do you use that encourage creative thinking?

What is Twitter

thecleversheep — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:47:55 CDT

Thanks to Mike Calimbas for granting permission to use content from his post "Twitter Guide for Newbies"

What is Twitter?

Twitter is a microblogging community. In other words, imagine sending out a text message to 2 people. Or 200 people. or 2,000 people. Now imagine being able to follow the text messages of the same amount of people as well. All these people interact with one another in a real-time environment. You get to see everything that is happening in the world first-hand, free of the bias and filtering of traditional channels.

Why use Twitter?

Some use twitter simply to see what is going on in the world in real-time. Whether it’s with global news, activities within companies or industries, or in their own personal and business networks. Others use it as a means of mass-communication, as it enables them to communicate to a broad spectrum of people rather than going about the tedious task of relaying the same message individually. Even more use Twitter for branding purposes, whether it is to push their companies or personal agenda. Other uses include marketing, reputation-management, or simply personal use with the doctrine of continuously telling the world how you feel, 140 characters at a time.

Significant News Events on Twitter

Student ‘twitters’ his way out of Egyptian Jail. (link) - A journalist sends out a 2-word twitter message, “in jail”, right before his arrest. The message spreads virally through the network until it reaches someone who can get him out.
Newark Airline crash survivor twitters “Holy Fucking Shit I Was Just In A Plane Crash!” to break the news that Continental airlines 737 had slid off the runway in Denver.
Following the Pirate Bay Copyright Trial on Twitter with real-time accounts from inside the courtroom through the Pirate Bay Founders & defendants. #spectrial on twitter.com
How Twitter Warned of a Death Threat
Putting Twitter's World to Use via the New York Times.

Learn more by Searching Twitter

Twitter as Searchable Thought Stream
Tips on How to Search Twitter

Why Use Twitter in Teaching and Learning?

thecleversheep — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:46:54 CDT

This list 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Education was originally posted by Carol Cooper-Taylor in her blog on

Aug 22 2008. It was based on a list by Chris Brogan - 50 ideas for using Twitter in Business

First Steps

Build an account and immediate start using Twitter Search to listen for your name, the name of your school/college/poly/uni, and words that relate to your space. (Listening always comes first.)
Add a picture of yourself. People want to see you. What type of picture - up to you, there is a whole load of diversity our there on this.
Don’t just tweet about yourself, talk to other people about their interests, too.
Point out interesting things happening in your classroom (whatever from that takes).
Share links to neat things in your institution and/or community.
Don’t get stuck in the apology loop. Be helpful instead.
Be wary of always promoting your stuff. Your fans (aka mother) will love it. But hopefully you are reaching out to others as well.
Promote your students’ stories, but be careful to maintain anonymity, particularly with kids.
Be human.
Talk about non-education stuff too, there is life outside your institution.

Ideas About WHAT to Tweet

Instead of answering the question, “What are you doing?”, answer the question, “What has your attention?”
Have more than one twitterer at your institution. People can quit. People take vacations. It’s nice to have a variety.
When promoting a blog post, ask a question or explain what’s coming next, instead of just dumping a link.
Ask questions. Twitter is GREAT for getting opinions.
Follow interesting people. If you find someone who tweets interesting things, see who she follows, and follow her.
Tweet about other people’s stuff. Make you human
When you DO talk about your stuff, make it useful. Give advice, blog posts, pictures, etc.
Share the human side of your institution. If you’re bothering to tweet, it means you believe social media has value for human connections. Point us to pictures and other human things.
Don’t toot your own horn too much.
Or, if you do, try to balance it out by promoting the heck out of others, too.

Some Sanity For You

You don’t have to read every tweet. Some people follow thousands so they can’t be reading everything
You don’t have to reply to every @ tweet directed to you (try to reply to some, but don’t feel guilty).
Use direct messages for 1-to-1 conversations if you feel there’s no value to Twitter at large to hear the conversation.
Use services like Twitter Search to make sure you see if someone’s talking about you. Try to participate where it makes sense.
3rd party clients like Tweetdeck and Twhirl make it a lot easier to manage Twitter. I use TwitterFox add in for Firefox.
If you tweet all day you will not be popular with your colleagues or your boss.
If you tweet all day your students will let you know their displeasure. (see 24)
Learn quickly to use the URL shortening tools like TinyURL and all the variants. It helps tidy up your tweets.
If someone says you’re using twitter wrong, forget it. It’s an opt out society. They can unfollow if they don’t like how you use it.
Commenting on others’ tweets, and retweeting what others have posted is a great way to build community.

The Negatives People Will Throw At You

Twitter takes up time.
Twitter takes you away from teaching.
Without a strategy, it’s just typing.
There are other ways to do this.
It doesn’t replace face-to-face (who said it does).
Twitter is buggy and not education-ready.
Twitter is just for nerds not for teachers.
Twitter’s only a few million people. (only)
Twitter doesn’t replace email.
Twitter opens the institution up to more criticism and griping.

Some Positives to Throw Back

Twitter helps one organize great, instant meetups (tweetups).
Twitter works swell as an opinion poll.
Twitter can help direct student’s attention to good things.
Twitter in the classroom helps people build an instant “backchannel.”
Twitter breaks news faster than other sources, often (especially if the news impacts online denizens).
Twitter gives institutions a glimpse at what status messaging can do for an organization. Remember presence in the 1990s?
Twitter brings great minds together, and gives everyone daily opportunities to learn (if you look for it, and/or if you follow the right folks).
Twitter gives your critics a forum, but that means you can study them.
Twitter helps with staff development, find other teachers.
Twitter can augment parent feedback.

Synchronous Events

thecleversheep — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:42:40 CDT

Educhat is one example of the potential of twitter-based synchronous events. For more information, see the Educhat page. Hashtags are keywords that can be used to track conversations on a particular topic, event, conference. Searching for the tag allows participants or others to follow the conversation. A number of tools can be leveraged in order to follow a synchronous discussion. TweetDeck Monitter TweetGrid After the event, comments can be collated with the same tools, or by using Twitter Search or one of the other Twitter search resources: Twitter search API's: use these to integrate search with other apps, such as json and atom feeds. Also has examples of various search operators Tweetscan: a flexible twitter search that also searches identi.ca and other sites. Also has access to their API's for RSS, json, atom feeds. Twingly: microblog search engine Twitscoop Polling with Twitter: There are a number of polling clients that operate with Twitter. These can facilitate polling of your PLN or class. Polldaddy twtpoll Strawpollnow	Example: Educhat Read from Bottom to Top For other examples, visit www.hashtags.org

Educhat is one example of the potential of twitter-based synchronous events. For more information, see the Educhat page.

Hashtags are keywords that can be used to track conversations on a particular topic, event, conference. Searching for the tag allows participants or others to follow the conversation.

A number of tools can be leveraged in order to follow a synchronous discussion.

TweetDeck
Monitter
TweetGrid

After the event, comments can be collated with the same tools, or by using Twitter Search or one of the other Twitter search resources:

Twitter search API's: use these to integrate search with other apps, such as json and atom feeds. Also has examples of various search operators

Tweetscan: a flexible twitter search that also searches identi.ca and other sites. Also has access to their API's for RSS, json, atom feeds.

Twingly: microblog search engine

Twitscoop

Polling with Twitter:

There are a number of polling clients that operate with Twitter. These can facilitate polling of your PLN or class.

Polldaddy

twtpoll

Strawpollnow

Example: Educhat
Read from Bottom to Top
For other examples, visit www.hashtags.org

Twitter Clients

thecleversheep — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:40:23 CDT

Twitter Clients There are a range of tools that will allow you to send and receive Twitter messages with both mobile and desktop devices. This list may never be complete, but will offer a range of clients worth considering.
Twhirl http://www.twhirl.org/ A computer based client available for Windows and Mac; much easier to than the Twitter page, in my opinion
TweetDeck http://www.tweetdeck.com An easy to use Twitter client that runs under the Adobe AIR (that means it will run under Windows and MacOS) My favourite feature is that it allows you to group the people you follow, making it VERY easy to follow your favourite people, or a conversation among several.
Seesmic http://desktop.seesmic.com/ Another multi-column, multi-function client by the folks at Seesmic.
Nambu http://nambu.com This Mac only client has great functionality for filtering tweets, including the isolation of tweets with hyperlinks.
Twitbin http://www.twitbin.com This Twitter client is a Firefox add on that can be turned on/off inside the browser and has some simple settings to control updates and who you are following.
Twitterrific http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific This is a desktop client for mac users, it can also be used as an app. on the iPhone/iTouch. Video here.
Twitterfeed http://twitterfeed.com/ Use Twitter to automatically tweet your blog posts. Video tutorial here
Tweetie (http://www.atebits.com/software/tweetie/)
TwitterFone http://www.twitterfone.com/ Speak your tweet by calling the twitterfone number- register for an invitation
Twitblogs http://www.twitblogs.com/ When 140 characters isn't enough this client allows you continue it to a blog post.
Twitterberry http://www.orangatame.com/products/twitterberry/ Twitter client for RIM Blackberry devices
TwitPic http://twitpic.com/ This client allows you to post pictures to share through Twitter. You can also easily post using your cell phone.
Twe2 http://www.twe2.com/ A tool to convert tweets to SMS messages that you can receive on your mobile phone. And there's no charge to receive messages!
Edmodo - http://www.edmodo.com/ is an educational microblogging tool and much more. Identica - http://identi.ca Open-Microblogging powered by http://laconi.ca + Plurk - http://plurk.com/ is a microblogging app used primarily ny educators with lots of threaded discusions on a timeline Utterli- http://utterli.com Text, audio and/or video microblogging on a cell phone platform like Twitter Phone Yammer - http://yammer.com/ is based on organizational email. It began as a tool for organizations and companies but education has taken an interest.

6 Twitter Search Tools
Top 20 Twitter Apps (based on monthly visits)
Tracking your Tweets (25 ways)

Twitter Clients
There are a range of tools that will allow you to send and receive Twitter messages with both mobile and desktop devices. This list may never be complete, but will offer a range of clients worth considering.

Twhirl http://www.twhirl.org/
A computer based client available for Windows and Mac; much easier to than the Twitter page, in my opinion

TweetDeck http://www.tweetdeck.com
An easy to use Twitter client that runs under the Adobe AIR (that means it will run under Windows and MacOS) My favourite feature is that it allows you to group the people you follow, making it VERY easy to follow your favourite people, or a conversation among several.

Seesmic http://desktop.seesmic.com/
Another multi-column, multi-function client by the folks at Seesmic.

Nambu http://nambu.com
This Mac only client has great functionality for filtering tweets, including the isolation of tweets with hyperlinks.

Twitbin http://www.twitbin.com
This Twitter client is a Firefox add on that can be turned on/off inside the browser and has some simple settings to control updates and who you are following.

Twitterrific http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific
This is a desktop client for mac users, it can also be used as an app. on the iPhone/iTouch. Video here.

Twitterfeed http://twitterfeed.com/
Use Twitter to automatically tweet your blog posts. Video tutorial here

Tweetie (http://www.atebits.com/software/tweetie/)

TwitterFone http://www.twitterfone.com/
Speak your tweet by calling the twitterfone number- register for an invitation

Twitblogs http://www.twitblogs.com/
When 140 characters isn't enough this client allows you continue it to a blog post.

Twitterberry http://www.orangatame.com/products/twitterberry/

Twitter client for RIM Blackberry devices

TwitPic http://twitpic.com/
This client allows you to post pictures to share through Twitter. You can also easily post using your cell phone.

Twe2 http://www.twe2.com/
A tool to convert tweets to SMS messages that you can receive on your mobile phone. And there's no charge to receive messages!

Edmodo - http://www.edmodo.com/ is an educational microblogging tool and much more.
Identica - http://identi.ca Open-Microblogging powered by http://laconi.ca + Plurk - http://plurk.com/ is a microblogging app used primarily ny educators with lots of threaded discusions on a timeline
Utterli- http://utterli.com Text, audio and/or video microblogging on a cell phone platform like Twitter Phone
Yammer - http://yammer.com/ is based on organizational email. It began as a tool for organizations and companies but education has taken an interest.

6 Twitter Search Tools

Top 20 Twitter Apps (based on monthly visits)

Tracking your Tweets (25 ways)