Teacher Tools. Twitter Links @ Educators. Twitter 102. Educational Web Sites Twitter. The Times - Word Nerd. ‘Word Nerd’ tests the distinctiveness of the words you use on Twitter. It works by scanning your last 100 tweets, and comparing the words you have used with those stored in Google’s immense NGram¹ database - a collection of several hundreds of thousands of words Google has gathered from its Books project. Foreign words, non-words (like ‘Lolz!’) , and ‘stop words’ - words like ‘the’ and ‘and’ that are used so frequently by everyone as to be irrelevant - are first removed from the list. A custom algorithm then calculates the distinctiveness of the words you’ve used by examining how frequently each appears across the books from which Google’s NGram database is derived.
(A word that appears more frequently scores lower, and vice versa.) You are given an ‘overall score’ based on the distinctiveness of each individual word in your tweets, and ranked in one of four ‘performance quartiles’. There's a more complete explanation of how it works here. CasesBlog: Video: Teaching With Twitter. Over 100 ideas for using Twitter in the Classroom. This handful of resources provide about 100 different ideas for, and examples of, using Twitter in the classroom. It’s been almost 8 months since I published the post, “6 Examples of Using Twitter in the Classroom”, about uses of the popular micro-blogging tool in the instructional setting.
This post generated a lot of traffic, and continues to attract hundreds of viewers every week. Since that brief posting, I’ve come across a lot of articles containing examples and suggestions for using Twitter in instructional applications. I’ve combed through many of these and tried to boil down the redundancies to create a rich set of idea-laden resources. While there’s still going to be some overlap in the concepts presented in these articles, they clearly meet the goal of providing a thorough set of ideas and examples for leveraging Twitter in the educational process. (I follow this new listing with the original set of articles cited in my June ’09 post). About Kelly Walsh Print This Post. Twitterfall. Yfrog - Share your images/videos on Twitter!
Twitter can improve student performance, study says. Twitter can play role in higher attainment and better engagement, study finds. Sarah Cunnane reports The sight of students fiddling with their mobile phones and laptops as they tweet their way through lectures is enough to drive many academics up the wall. But according to a study at Lock Haven University in the US, tweeting could be used to improve academic performance. Rey Junco, associate professor in the department of academic development and counselling, assessed the impact of using Twitter as a teaching tool on students taking a pre-health course at the institution, which is a member of the Pennsylvania state system.
Separating the students into two groups, he asked one to use the social-networking site Ning to communicate with lecturers while the other used Twitter. Professor Junco, who co-authored the paper with two colleagues, admitted that the exercise had required significant commitment on the part of academics as well as students. sarah.cunnane@tsleducation.com. COVERITLIVE.COM - Home. Leslie Fisher. Widgets. Resources. Set Up Multiple Twitter Accounts One Email Address | The Social Media Guide.
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One Hashtag Helps Educators Change Their Schools. Every day on Twitter, educators discuss issues they’re facing, share advice and pass on resources. But as Tom Whitby found out when he started debates on the social network, conversations can be hard to follow, especially when they’re mixed in with a bunch of tweets from other people. That’s where the hashtag edchat comes in. Whitby worked with Shelly Terrell and Steven W. Anderson to provide a time, a place and a tag for educators to talk about major issues. “We’re fostering a conversation that needs to be had,” said Anderson, an instructional technologist for 19 schools in North Carolina. Edchat empowers educators to ask questions When Anderson goes to educational conferences, he hears about all the wonderful things that schools have, such as smartboards and 1-1 laptop programs. “What edchat allows us to do is talk about the dark side a little bit," Anderson said.
Edchat empowers educators to fight for real change Edchat empowers educators to support each other. FrontPage. Verizon commerical- Twitter Updates and Facebook.