This document discusses potential ways that teachers can use Twitter in the classroom. It provides examples such as tweeting about assignments and due dates, coordinating project collaboration between students, taking and sharing notes, providing a news feed for current events, posting puzzles for subjects like math and science, writing reviews for literature and media, playing word games to practice vocabulary, and having students summarize lessons in 140 characters or less. The document also discusses how Twitter can be used as a data collection tool in surveys and how it archives information that may be useful for future historical research.

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2.  Twitter is a free social networking microblogging
service that allows registered members to broadcast
short posts called tweets. Twitter members can
broadcast tweets and follow other users' tweets by
using multiple platforms and devices. Tweets and
replies to tweets can be sent by cell phone text
message, desktop client or by posting at
the Twitter.com website.

3.  Tweet about upcoming due dates or assignments.
One of the simplest ways that teachers can use Twitter in the
classroom involves setting up a feed dedicated exclusively to due
dates, tests or quizzes.
 Coordinate assignments.
Rather than keeping up with an e-mail train, students can use Twitter
to collaborate on different projects and keep a quick reference on any
changes.
 Take and share notes.
Classrooms with enough resources can allow students to tweet their
own notes during lessons and share with their peers

4.  Provide the class with a running news feed.
Subscribe to different mainstream and independent news feeds with
different biases as a way to compare and contrast how different
perspectives interpret current events and issues.
 Post math puzzles.
Math, chemistry or physics teachers need not feel left out from
playing games and posting teasers on Twitter. Like their literate
contemporaries, they can micro blog a daily problem for students to
solve and tweet back the answer.

5.  Write reviews.
Any media studies classes – including literature – can use the Twitter
format to write micro reviews of the different movies, books and
music devoured.
 Play word games.
Unscramble anagrams, contribute synonyms or antonyms or give a
definition for any vocabulary or spelling words as another way of
getting them more involved in their language lessons.
 Summarize.
At the conclusion of each lecture, ask students to type a 140-
character or less summary of what they have learned and perhaps
pose any questions to be considered in the next class.

6. Twitter is excellent for obtaining data from a survey: you can set up a
micro-blogging site and get responses from thousands of participants
(Batey, 2010).
Twitter creates an automatic database of information in real time, which
means, according to Hendry Lee (2008), that as it is archived it will
become a unique source of historical information.
 Take for example the following search results for the
American presidential election in 2008:

7. Twitter will certainly be an
important tool for future
historical research, but as a
data aggregator it will also
be useful for any discipline
that deals with
contemporary events:
politics, sociology,
psychology, geography,
economics for example.

8.  Learning about new research, publications, conferences,
conversations
 Community-building, following/connecting with colleagues
around the world in your own cognate fields
 The drop-in or hang-out-all-day options; you can tweet & read
as you like, greatly enabled by list feature
 Updates of news, info, stories on topics that are of interest.

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