Teachers love Twitter

From the NHOET Blog- While some educators are just getting familiar with the term Web 2.0 and all the various tools that can be classified as “web 2.0 tools,” other educators are already immersed in using them. Of course everyone has their favorites. My current favorite is GoogleDocs, but that’s a topic for another post. Today I thought I should share a few interesting articles about how Twitter (one of those Web 2.0 tools) can be used for language arts, community building, and many other things.
Search Engine Watch has an article by Ron Jones about Twitter
David Parry has a blog called academHack with a lengthy interesting post about how he uses Twitter in his university classroom at U Texas in Dallas.
EdWeek’s Digital Directions June 2008 issue includes an article about Twitter. One of my favorites was how this teacher used it:
created a Twitter account called Many Voices and invited his students, and students around the world, to add a sentence or two to the ongoing story through tweets. Within six weeks, the rolling story, written 140 characters at a time, was finished—with the help of more than 100 students in six different countries.
Have you used Twitter? Cathy Higgins