Y Tweet. 13 ways Twitter improves education. Twitter can easily be dismissed as a waste of time in the secondary school classroom. Students will get distracted. Students will see tweets they shouldn't at their age. How does one manage a room full of Tweeple without mobile phones? Is it even appropriate for years 7 and 8? Here's some ammunition for what often turns into a pitched, take-sides verbal brawl as well-intended teachers try to come to a compromise on using Twitter (in fact, many of the new Web 2.0 tools-- blogs, wikis, websites that require registrations and log-ins, discussion forums. You can probably add to this list) that works for all stakeholders: You learn to be concise Twitter gives you only 140 characters to get the entire message across. At first blush, that seems impossible. Twitter isn't intimidating A blank white page that holds hundreds of words, demanding you fill in each line margin to margin is intimidating. 140 characters isn't.
Students learn manners Social networks are all about netiquette. Here’s an idea. 10 Awesome Twitter Analytics and Visualization Tools | Twitter Tools and Tips for Twitter Success. Recently Twitter rolled out their native analytics platform for all users and now you can get some quality data about your tweets directly from Twitter. After researching over a thousand Twitter Tools for the Twitter Tools Book I came across many Twitter analytics and visualization tools. These Twitter tools were designed to add value by presenting a different way to visualize or analyze your tweets, the people in your network, and the tweets from the people in your network. Many tools tried to add value and failed. At least they tried. The following tools, however, stand out in my mind as exceptional or entertaining and I recommend you check them out if you want to analyze and visualize your activity on Twitter. 1.
TweepsMap is an excellent Twitter tool for both analyzing and visualizing your Twitter network. As it’s name suggests it does this by showing you how your followers are distributed on a map, in terms of percentages. You can see the distribution of my followers below. Unique. 2. Teachers warned over Facebook and Twitter use. 2 January 2012Last updated at 00:33 The SSTA fears teachers can reveal too much personal information on sites like Twitter Scottish teachers are being warned that their use of social networking sites could put their careers at risk. The Scottish Secondary Teachers Association believes teachers can reveal too much personal information on sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
The union also fears they could become overly familiar with pupils. The General Teaching Council of Scotland is preparing new guidelines on social networking sites. This follows a number of recent cases brought before the GTC's regulatory body. Jim Docherty, assistant secretary of the SSTA, told BBC Scotland that teachers should follow his advice: "First thing is don't bother telling anybody else about your social life. "Secondly, never make any comment about your work, about your employer, about teaching issues in general. "There is always a possibility it will be misinterpreted. " Twitter-Matrix.jpg (JPEG Image, 708x428 pixels)
The Archivist By Mix Online. There are no free lunches on the internet | Technology | The Observer. Physics has Newton's first law ("Every body persists in its state of being at rest or of moving uniformly straight forward, except insofar as it is compelled to change its state by force impressed"). The equivalent for internet services is simpler, though just as general in its applicability: it says that there is no such thing as a free lunch.
The strange thing is that most users of Google, Facebook, Twitter and other "free" services seem to be only dimly aware of this law. Facebook, for example, handles the pages of 750 million users, enables more than half of that number to visit and update their pages every day and hosts more than 70 billion photographs. The cost of the computing and communications resources – in terms of server farms, energy, bandwidth and technical expertise – required to make this happen doesn't bear thinking about. But it costs money – millions of dollars a month, every month. And Twitter…? If you're a Facebook or a Google+ user you'll have noticed this trend.
Twitter buys UK's TweetDeck for £25m | Business. It was once famed for its art scene and residents with daft haircuts. But the area around Old Street, on the fringes of the City of London, has emerged as a magnet for internet startups to rival those in the US, earning it the nickname Silicon Roundabout after its famously unlovely traffic system. Iain Dodsworth, a 36-year-old Sheffield-educated computer programmer, this week became the poster boy for the area when he sold his three-year-old firm, TweetDeck, to social network company Twitter in a deal thought to be worth about $40m (£25m) – making the once-unemployed developer an overnight millionaire.
The big-money deal is the clearest sign yet that the firms clustered in the area are capable of attracting talent that could match those of California's Silicon Valley, the heartland of technology firms such as Facebook and Google. "It feels like a really big win for London," says Dodsworth. "It feels like there's something meaningful there.
. • Songkick. Mapping the world Flickr and Twitter | Technology. Self-described map geek Eric Fischer has released a fresh batch of data visualisations that merge Flickr and Twitter geographic data. Using the title See something or say something, he's produced images for London, below, as well as 34 more including New York, Barcelona, Baltimore, Tokyo, Singapore, Jakarta, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Washington DC, San Francisco, Rotterdam... and not Worthing. Photo by Eric Fischer on Flickr. Some rights reserved Fischer used red dots for Flickr pictures, blue for Twitter and white for both - all publicly available data in the Flickr and Twitter APIs. Livestream | TweetTrader.net. Twitter predicts future of stocks. 6 April 2011Last updated at 10:44 Should traders turn their screens to Twitter? Twitter may not yet have found a way to make money for itself but it is doing a good job of generating cash for its users, research suggests.
A study conducted by a PhD student at the Technical University of Munich found that investors following stock market tweets could have achieved an average return rate of 15%. Timm Sprenger analysed 250,000 tweets sent over a six-month period. He predicts Twitter will increasingly offer specialised information to users. Holy grail Thousands of stock-related messages are sent every day via tweets. There was "a striking co-ordination" between what Twitter was saying about shares and other information from investors and analysts, he found. "I don't think it is the Holy Grail to make millions but it is a very credible and legitimate source," he said. He also found that more valuable information was retweeted, meaning that it reached a wider audience.
British Library ponders the historical value of Twitter - News, Books. Dame Lynne Brindley, who was speaking about the future of libraries at The Independent Woodstock Literary Festival, said she has grappling with the question of whether the library should preserve Twitter, Facebook and blog entries in the same way it archives print. Her question is all the more pressing given that the Library of Congress in America has just announced that it will archive all Twitter material. "The material the British Library classed as everyday material in the 19th century, trade magazines, fashion magazines and ephemera is now the absolute stuff of research," she said.
"How far should you think about collecting and preserving social media such as Twitter, blogs, and forms we have not yet even discovered? The ephemeral material deemed to be less valuable, material that was part of everyday life, is now extremely vital to the understanding of cultural and social history," she said. "I feel that being morbid is a part of being a novelist. Twitter trial first for BBC Scotland. 12 February 2011Last updated at 14:23 By Tim Reid Westminster reporter, BBC Scotland The Jim Devine verdict was revealed first for many on Twitter Within seconds of the jury foreman twice uttering the word "guilty" on Thursday, the internet was abuzz.
The breaking news that former MP Jim Devine had been convicted was revealed first, for many thousands of followers, on Twitter. That's because for seven days, I and a few other journalists, were allowed to tweet and text from the legal confines of Court 1 at Southwark Crown Court, on the south bank of the Thames. It's the first time a BBC Scotland reporter has been allowed to tweet an entire trial and follows the decision of the English courts to allow individual judges to decide which cases can be tweeted.
On the initial day of the trial, I requested permission to tweet from the judge, Mr Justice Saunders. And so, using mobile phones and tablet computers, we were able to instantly report the progress of the first MP's expenses trial. #movemeon. 5 Ways to Make Twitter Less Noisy. One of the biggest criticisms about Twitter among all types of users is the noise. And it’s bound to get noisier as Twitter gets more and more popular. The good news is that there are a number of ways available to help you control the noise, find the information that’s most important to you and ignore the rest. Here are five ideas that can help you turn down the volume on Twitter. Use a Social Media Management Tool Once you build up a healthy following, your Twitter stream can get crowded and noisy.
It can be difficult to find the information you want, facilitate the conversations that are important to you, and maximize your use of Twitter without some sort of management tool. There are hundreds of such tools out there, all with varying features and functions. Create Twitter Lists Twitter Lists are very useful for grouping, labeling and focusing on specific accounts you want to keep tabs on in Twitter, without the noise of a regular Twitter stream. Unfollow Use a Muting App. Twitter and e-mail use in Supreme Court allowed. 3 February 2011Last updated at 12:52 Tweets will still be prohibited in some cases Tweeting is to be allowed from hearings at the highest court in the UK, new Supreme Court guidance states.
Supreme Court justices are "content" for journalists, the public and legal teams to use "live text-based communications" in courtrooms. The guidance was issued because cases before the court do not involve witnesses or jurors. But it is limited to the Supreme Court and considerations apply to other courts for various legal reasons. Live text-based forms of communication, such as e-mails and microblogging via social media platforms like Twitter, are to be allowed in the court because there is rarely any reason why what is said should not be placed immediately in the public domain. Confidentiality Lord Phillips, president of the Supreme Court, said the "rapid development" of communications technology brought with it "both opportunities and challenges for the justice system". JFK Twitter account chronicles president's life. 20 January 2011Last updated at 22:57 The Kennedy Twitter account also links to video and pictures of Kennedy from a digitised archive The John F Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston in the state of Massachusetts has begun chronicling the former US president's 1,000 days in office on the micro-blogging website Twitter.
The account @Kennedy1961 began posting tweets on Thursday about the former president's actions and words as they unfolded 50 years ago. The library is linking to video and pictures from its digitised archive. Thursday marks the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's inauguration. "What you use Twitter for today is what's happening," Rachel Day, director of communications for the JFK Library Foundation, told the ABC News network. "For us, it's what was happening. Posts to the account explain the president's life 50 years ago through both his own words and explanations of his actions. The project is the largest digitisation effort out of all the 13 US presidential libraries. You have a regional dialect - even on Twitter. 12 February 2011Last updated at 09:35 By Dave Lee BBC World Service Tweeting about 'suttin' - These New Yorkers could use different language online compared to others in different parts of the US With vast, sophisticated social networking sites, you could say the world has never felt smaller.
Many have referred to the internet being very much a "global village". But even though we are now supposedly part of one huge web community with a shared lexicon, we still maintain characteristics specific to our locality - even when we communicate in just 140 characters. That is according to a new study by Dr Jacob Eisenstein from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Continue reading the main story “Start Quote I really think that the availability of data like Twitter is a real game-changer for how people study language. ” End QuoteJacob EisensteinCarnegie Mellon University "We had a certain set of expectations going in," he told the BBC World Service's Digital Planet programme. Hella koo.
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