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Moodle. Entransit. Pollinipill goowy) Kaboodle. Tag history. Netvibes. Wiki Welcome Visitors. Qnext. Twitter tweets for higher education. I love Twitter.com. I usually post a couple of items a day, on average, and tend to follow and interact others who also post in a moderate fashion. Some people post dozens of twits a day and use Twitter as a kind of instant messaging client. I see, and use it, more as a mini-blog. When I click on my name, I see all my posts, which is a sort of summary of things that I do and think about that I want to share with others. For the uninitiated, Twitter limits you to 140 characters and spaces per post (or per "tweet"). You can follow others Twitter uses on your home page.

I actually had not considered it as a tool for education until I saw a link posted by Twittown to a blog post on that subject. 1- Using Twitter with your students on Doug Belshaw's teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk blog - emphasizes secondary education. For a couple more library examples of this, see You can set your Twitter account private ("Protect My Updates") or public. A growing issue is a kind of Twitter Spam. Team WhiteBoarding with Twiddla - Painless Team Collaboration fo.