Twitter+for+Teachers

What is Twitter?
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: ** What are you doing? **

We may not be ready to use this tool with students yet but it a great tool for communication between peers. Twitter can provide opportunities to
 * follow "experts" and learn from them
 * put out a call for help or get answers to a question
 * Provide instant access to breaking news

To find people on Twitter go to http://search.twitter.com and list your search terms in quotations. If you want to find out about what boys are reading you might put "boys read". There is a list of 50 Ideas on [|Using Twitter in Education.]

There is a "book" being compiled about using Twitter in education called [|Twitter for Teachers].

Third Party Applications for Twitter
Once you’re following hundreds, or thousands, of fellow Twitterers, the need to hit the refresh bar makes you feel like a lab rat continually tapping for its dinner. Using **[|AdobeAir] ** (a separate, free program nearly as easy to install as **[|Acrobat Reader] **), [|Twhir] l and [|TweetDeck] both resolve that issue, creating a constantly running faucet of tweets. Both allow you to separate Direct Messages and @Replies, see the string of tweets from an individual user, and tweet within the application itself, without ever going to your browser.

 Tomas Lazic has written this really useful document, explaining to teachers how to get started with using Twitter. It has an answer ready for the sceptics at every stage!