Twitter – what is it?
- Asks what are you up to right now?
- Limited to just 140 characters
- Like the status update feature on Facebook – and that’s all
- Follow people you know, those you don’t, organisations, publications
- Part blog, part social networking site, and part IM tool
Twitter in Plain English
… more Twitter related links from Delicious.
Twitter – an example
Intute: Economics on Twitter features blog posts and new Internet resources on Economics
Also follow other organisations / publication such as Times Higher, the Economist, HM Treasury, the FT and individual academics and individual academics
Twitter – possible uses
- Pointers to online resources based around a course
- Student reminders about deadlines
- Breaking down barriers and getting to know others over this “virtual water cooler”
- Keeping up to date for you and students
- Instant lecture feedback – are you Twittering about this presentation?
- 7 things you should know about Twitter by EDUCAUSE looks at this further
- The Intute Twitter 500 some suggestions on educational use of Twitter
Exercise
- Go to Twitter at http://twitter.com/ and register for an account
- Add your first Tweet (short message of 140 characters)
- Use the tag alissweb2 in your Tweet
- Under Find People – try searching for Intute
- Follow one of the Intute channels such as the Intute: Economics channel
Advanced
Go to the Twitter Search page at: http://search.twitter.com/advanced
Try a search term and filter the latest Tweets to those that contain links
Blog
Add your Twitter feed or one of the Intute Twitter feeds to your blog
http://support.wordpress.com/twitter/
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