Conference. Twitter Twerp Scan. Phil Bradley's weblog: Edmodo - a Twitter for education. Wired Campus: A Professor's Tips for Using Twitter in the Classroom - Chronicle.com. Twitter at first seemed like a bad idea to David Parry, an assistant professor of Emerging Media and Communications at the University of Texas at Dallas.
For those not in the know, Twitter is a service that lets you micro-blog your life by dashing out very short notes (140 characters max) to a select group of friends or other subscribers, who can receive them as text messages on their cell phones. Mr. Parry’s first instinct was that Twittering would just encourage students to speak in sound bites and self-obsess. Using Twitter in education - what the mlearn audience thought [mobile-learning.blog-city.com]