How to Use Twitter for Education (in a Real Classroom)

Posted by Koichi C on 1 Jun 2009, 1087 views

This is a very cool video I found via an article by Darren Rowse's Twitter blog, Twitip. I've been trying to figure out a way to use Twitter in education for a long time now, especially for my "1000 Twitter Followers in 4 weeks" class. I think I've been trying to overthink it this whole time. Twitter is simple, and that's why the above video works! It's a great watch for any of you educators out there who are trying to integrate a little more technology in the classroom. It's important to keep up with us kids (maybe I'm too old to include myself into that group?).

Subject:: Twitter
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Tyler said: Wow, now if every classroom was like this, except for Edufire of course. 5 months ago
Alan said: Here's another article about using Twitter in education - http://searchenginewatch.com/3630980

In the above article, they mention the story Many Voices, written using Twitter. The teacher did the first tweet and students "tweeted" the rest of the story. The doc is free so I posted it in the content section.

http://edufire.com/content/docs/77-many-voices-a-twitter-experiment-in-education
5 months ago
Scott said: Nice!! It's great to see new tools being utilized by teachers. 5 months ago
Stephanie said: Great post Koichi! It is great to see that our teachers are keeping up with the times/tech. 5 months ago
Juan said: With all due of respect I didn't agree with the title "how to..in a real classroom"..I believe that many of us here see edu's software as a classroom..one offering tech tools to improve "real" teaching as well! I hope to still be able to get a seat in your class about this topic..I do have twitter already following edu's guidelines on it,,but I feel weird following..." 5 months ago