Students experiment with different kinds of sentence structures like appositive phrases or compound and complex. Tweet your sentence when you are ready to share.

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I like this page and all the resources you have here! Thanks guys & gals!
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Leslie

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As a teacher of Interactive Digital Media I am wanting to make contact with some Multimedia professionals to enable my students to develop a more real understanding of the industry.

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I know this is a site for twitter, but since I have so many tech "leaders", I thought I'd get your feedback. Does anyone know of an online web 2.0 tech survey for teachers? As part of a professional development project, we are including a survey to find out how "tech savvy" our teachers are with 21st learning. Any suggestions?

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I've been building a collection of Twitter related articles via Zotero. I'm prepared to include the above mentioned links into that collection and to republish this list (as a detailed bibliography) with all of the biblio info there. This might be especially useful for those who are doing more detailed research on the subject and are looking to "cite" that work.

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I heard a tweet that made me think of Twitter in a new way wish I could RT it. Basically, Twitter could be thought of as a search engine and not just a true social media site like Facebook. I guess what is meant is because of the #s you can search threads and because of APIs like Twitter Trends yo could think of it as a marriage between social media and a search engine.

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I just blogged about an idea how to add twitter to a seminar at university. I'd like to hear your ideas and maybe it'l become a resource too?
Look here to see the Blogentry: http://appelt.net/2009/03/09/twitter-and-blogs-in-seminars-my-betaconcept/
Thanks for feedback and consideration,
Ralf

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A different group dynamic can be used on Twitter. Teacher assigns HW to students such as for example use of quotes. Students write sentences using quotes and include hash tags ie. #quotes. Weaker students follow the tags that stronger students are modeling until they become competent. And teacher as a "weak" participant observes tags and only participates as a moderator.

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A table of commands such as d, get and rt would be helpful here.

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Some advice I always give authors of technical books... I hope this isn't too negative and proves useful.

I'm also aware that you're teachers, and these points brush against learning theory so I'm teaching granny to suck eggs.

Put all the "what is Twitter?" type stuff at the back of the book. Anything that is about Twitter but not directly about TEACHING with Twitter is basically appendix... get it out of the way. Background should be at the back.

The first chapter should be something like "what can Twitter do for teachers?" -- short simple success stories (even if they're made up) work well here, to give the reader a "vision" of what they can achieve with Twitter. You could also address some common objections but keep it short.

Then as soon as possible stop telling the reader stuff and start them doing educationally productive stuff. That is, using Twitter to do things that teachers care about. This could be discussing education, it could be complaining about student behaviour or senior management idiocy... the sooner the reader thinks "hey I GET it now!" the better. And people get the "I get it" moment from doing things, not from reading about them. (The exception to this might be reading stories that they relate to.)

Once people "get" something their brains start whirring and they become keen to learn more and innovate, so your job gets a lot easier. Don't make the reader do much work before they get to that moment (for example, don't even consider telling them to download a Twitter tool or visit a 3rd party service until they've hit some limit of what the standard web interface can do.)

I would try to make each chapter title something that the average teacher cares about and will see benefit in.

Ha! Hitting the character limit on my first post. Ooops.

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