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‘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.)
The Times - Word Nerd
Although I am still working on trying to figure out how to use it best for medical education, I do enjoy the short updates from the 40 or so people I follow. Most students, residents and fellows are busy as it is, and many do not have enough funds to afford cell phone plans with unlimited (or high number) text messages. Checking the Twitter website from a desktop/laptop takes up a lot of time. A reasonable compromise is visiting the Twitter mobile interface from a cell phone browser but that requires a data plan.
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Over 100 ideas for using Twitter in the Classroom | Emerging Education Technology
These resources actually provide over 110 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.
Twitterfall
For popular trends, Twitter is queried from the Twitterfall server, and results are streamed directly to you. This means that Twitterfall is nicer for commonly used terms than other clients.
Times Higher Education - Twitter can improve student performance, study says
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.
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Show off your favorite tweets! Also in real time, this widget will pull in the tweets you've starred as favorites. It's great for moderation.
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.