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Why Twitter matters for media organisations | Alan Rusbridger. I've lost count of the times people – including a surprising number of colleagues in media companies – roll their eyes at the mention of Twitter. "No time for it," they say. "Inane stuff about what twits are having for breakfast. Nothing to do with the news business. " Well, yes and no. Inanity – yes, sure, plenty of it. But saying that Twitter has got nothing to do with the news business is about as misguided as you could be. Here, off the top of my head, are 15 things, which Twitter does rather effectively and which should be of the deepest interest to anyone involved in the media at any level. 1) It's an amazing form of distribution It's a highly effective way of spreading ideas, information and content. Why does this matter? 2) It's where things happen first Not all things. 3) As a search engine, it rivals Google Many people still don't quite understand that Twitter is, in some respects, better than Google in finding stuff out. 4) It's a formidable aggregation tool 8) It's more diverse.

Teachers Teaching Teachers, on Twitter: Q. and A. on 'Edchats' A screenshot from TweetDeck showing, left, a recent #Edchat stream and, right, the #Engchat stream at the same time. Like other groups with shared interests, from epidemiologists to James Joyce fans to locked-out N.F.L. players, teachers are turning to Twitter to collaborate, share resources and offer each other support. Many, in fact, are using it to take professional development into their own hands, 140 characters at a time.

Each week, thousands of teachers participate in scheduled Twitter “chats” around a particular subject area or type of student. Math teachers meet on Mondays, for instance, while science discussions happen on Tuesdays, new teachers gather on Wednesdays and teachers working with sixth graders meet Thursdays. By using hashtags — that is, words or phrases preceded by the # symbol, like “#Scichat” for science educators — users can organize, search and find messages on a particular topic all in one place. Below, you’ll find a question-and-answer session with Thomas D.

28 Creative Ways Teachers are Using Twitter. This post has kindly been shared by Best Colleges Online where it first appeared on their blog. Between the cat images and celebrity porn, the Internet actually manages to boast educational potential. Considerable educational potential, in fact. Even that Twitter thing the kids are into these days, with its 140-characters and its perpetual haze of pound signs, has its uses.

More than 28, of course, but here’s a nice little starting point. Instant feedback: ReadWriteWeb and Mashable both featured Monica Rankin, a history professor at University of Dallas, and discussed how she utilizes Twitter to gather real-time feedback. Students send questions and input to the microblog, which end up projected right there during lectures; Rankin encourages them to study one another’s insights. Answering questions: In a similar strategy to the aforementioned information gathering, some educators streamline the process by allowing students to answer questions via Twitter rather than raising their hands.

Why Educators should be using Twitter. How To Integrate Twitter with PowerPoint: Tweet Presentation Notes & See Instant Feedback. Speakers and presenters at conferences are increasingly finding their audience live tweeting during their presentation. In most cases, the presenter has no clue about what the audience is saying on Twitter. This leads to a disconnect between the true thoughts of the audience in contrast with that of the presenter. In order to avoid such scenarios, you can incorporate Twitter within your PowerPoint presentation both to be an active participant as well as to gather feedback from the audience. Timo Elliott of SAP Web 2.0 has developed several free Powerpoint Twitter tools. Download the tools for MS Office from the download page for your version of MS Office and unzip the archive.

You need PowerPoint 2003 or 2007 and [NO LONGER WORKS] Adobe Flash to use them. Note that these Powerpoint Twitter tools are free prototypes with limited support. Auto Tweet Notes From PowerPoint Presentations AutoTweet is a PowerPoint Add-in that automatically tweets Notes from your presentation. Edudemic.

TWITTER - Expanding the Classroom - Shrinking the World. While I was principal for 3 years I dealt with a lot bullying/behavior issues related to social media. Finally, I swore it off as a hassle that led to many discipline issues. I swore up and down that I would never use social media such as Twitter or the like. Now I am back in the classroom full time and cannot imagine my life or career without Twitter. Twitter recently led to an experience for my 6th graders that I could never planned or make happen on my own. While studying Ancient Greece and their gods, I assigned my students a research project on a god. While they were giving their presentations on it, I posted a few tweets about how well they were doing. Mr. The collaboration due to Twitter did not stop with viewing those presentations. Twitter helped make all this connection and collaboration happen.

Twitter shrinks the world. Twitter increases our school’s communication with parents as well. Twitter brings the world into our classroom in so many ways. M.guardian.co.uk. It's Thursday evening and hundreds of teachers are engrossed in a training session. The topic is pupils using mobiles in class; more than 1,000 questions and answers are pinging back and forth. "If students text in your lesson and aren't engaged, leave the profession – you're not cutting it," says one. "The kit in their pockets is often better than school equipment," says another. "Give a pupil an encyclopaedia and they get so much knowledge. "Give them tech and wow – exponential learning," enthuses a third.

The teachers – who work in schools dotted around the country, from urban academies to tiny primaries – enter and exit the training at various points. They do so without disturbing anyone. This is UKEdChat, a weekly congregation of teachers on Twitter. "The time difference made it tough to actively participate," Hill explains.

"But I was keen to attract UK educators to a similar chat session, discussing subjects and policies more related to our side of the Atlantic. " Fresh air. 5 Things To Get Your Twitter Network Off The Ground. Social Media and Student Learning: Using Analytics to Visualise Twitter Communication in the Classroom. Twitter finds a place in the classroom. Carol Ann Duffy: texting and Twitter 'help students perfect poetry' Why Twitter could win the online identity race. As social media and social networks become a larger part of our online lives, the race to become the default identity platform for the social web continues to intensify, with Facebook, Twitter and Google all hoping to control — and profit from — the ways that users connect to various services.

Although Facebook and Google both have massive resources to deploy in this battle, venture capitalist Mark Suster of GRP Partners argues that Twitter stands the best chance of becoming the go-to identity player for many users, and there are some pretty compelling reasons to believe he’s right. As we’ve described before at GigaOM, the biggest and earliest moves in the identity arena have come from Facebook, with the launch of Facebook Connect and then the Facebook “open graph” platform, which allowed websites to integrate with the social network for login purposes. Facebook had a head-start, but it may not be winning The race isn’t over, but Twitter has momentum.

10 Must Have Twitter Tools and Apps. Twitter is one of the most popular social networking site out there. About 500,000 people sign up on it everyday. People usually have a lot of followers and also follow a lot of people themselves. This simply means a lot of noise, which can be quite annoying. The good news is that a lot of good tools are present out there that will help you cut through the noise and get to the most useful things. So here is a list of 10 useful tools and apps for Twitter users that will help them use Twitter more efficiently.

Check it out: Liked the article?? Advertisement You may like this too : New Twitter Tools, Firefox Add-ons for twitter users, Great Twitter apps StrawberryJ.am Most of the time we have to spend a lot of time scrolling down our timeline before we find the Tweets that actually interests us. Best thing: Instead of checking a site everyday, you can simply get your top news as updates directly to your inbox through email. Buffer Tweriod Why Tweet when no one is listening? TweetWally ChittyChat. The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery. It surprises me how many really smart people I meet still doubt the power of Twitter. It seems the urge to be a naysayer of Twitter is really strong for some. I think some of this stems from the early days of Twitter when it was presumed that it was a technology to tell people what you ate for lunch. Twitter never seemed to really take the offense in PR and marketing.

I guess it wasn’t in their DNA. Right now the most important role to hire in Twitter would be a seasoned marketing professional who could proactively change the conversation about Twitter and educate people about its significance as an information sharing tool. They need a stronger campaign about consumption rather than sending Tweets.

Consumption, consumption, consumption. I’ve written extensively about Twitter’s use cases, but it’s biggest power is in information sharing. 1. When we found stuff we liked we “bookmarked” it so that we could come back to the website later. And the company that helped websites publish RSS? 2.