This document discusses Twitter and its potential benefits for teachers. It provides an overview of what Twitter is, demographic information about current Twitter users including many teachers, and the top reasons educators use Twitter which include making connections, collaborating, staying informed, and having fun. Teachers surveyed found Twitter helpful professionally for professional development, finding resources, and networking. Advice is given for educators new to Twitter, and the top educators to follow are listed.

2. “ Watching from the outside, Twitter is like the dumbest thing you’ve heard of: “Why would anyone want to tell others what they are doing in 140 characters?” And yet to dismiss Twitter is a mistake because it’s an incredibly powerful tool for your personal learning and connecting with others.” ( Sue Waters , http://suewaters.wikispaces.com/twitter, @suewaters Original quote: Alan Levine)

3. NB:Twitter song from Youtube

5. Twitter video from CC

6. Who tweets?

14. To Connect

16. Collaboration & Collegiality

18. Information

21. Social/Fun reasons

23. How does it help me professionally?

34. Final words

36. I Dream in Twitter (listen to the podcast http://www.box.net/shared/static/gqkaej08ww.mp3) I dream in Twitter in 140 characters that cut off my thoughts before they are complete and then I wonder, why 140? Ten more letters would serve me right as I write about what I am doing at that moment in time, connecting across the world with so many others shackled by 140 characters, too, and I remain amazed at how deep the brevity can be.

37. I find it unsettling to eavesdrop on conversations between two when you can only read one and it startles me to think that someone else out there has put their ear to my words and wondered the same about me. Whose eyes are watching? Twitter is both an expanding universe of tentacles and hyperlinks that draw you in with knowledge and experience and a shrinking neighborhood of similar voices, echoing out your name in comfortable silence.

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