TEDChris: The untweetable - Simple tips for a better Twitter exp. 3 great options for Twitter and delicious integration | Social S. With the increasing attention I've been giving our Social Signal Twitter account, I've found myself in a bit of dilemma. Tweeting web links is one of the simplest and most effective ways to offer regular, useful info of value to your followers. But the links that would be most useful to SoSi followers are the very links I need to keep track of myself -- for which I rely on delicious. In principle, there are lots of ways I could integrate the two services. But I have several criteria: My links need to be posted to Twitter with a shortened URL (like a bit.ly URL) so the link itself doesn't use up all 140 characters Twitter lets me tweet. I've found several good options. Delicious tag + TwitterFeed TwitterFeed is a service that will read an RSS feed and automatically post each item to Twitter; you can use it to parse the outbound RSS feed for a particular tag and a particular user.
Firestatus Firestatus is a FireFox add-on that lets me post something to Twitter and delicious simultaneously. Votre établissement n’a pas de compte Twitter ? What a shame ! BingTweets. Twitter, une salle de classe étendue | Psy et Geek ;-) De plus en plus d’enseignants anglo-saxons, comme Howard Rheingold et utilisent Twitter dans leurs cours comme . Les étudiants et le professeur disposent ainsi d’un canal de communication supplémentaire qu’ils peuvent utiliser sans perturber le cours. Des données peuvent être récoltées, échangés et commentées et les communications peuvent se faire de l’enseignant vers le groupe, des individus vers le groupe, des invidivu vers l’enseignant.
Le groupe peut par ailleurs communiquer avec des personnes qui ne sont pas dans la classe. Enfin, des communications privées, de personne à personne, peuvent se produire. Le est un bon exemple de la façon dont les masses peuvent s’approprier la technologie. Avec Twitter, on a vu se développer une série de nouveaux services qui ont pris le nom de micro-blogging. Il y a toujours pendant un cours un peu de bruit, c’est-à-dire de communication plus ou moins en lien avec la situation d’enseignement.
Twitter peut être utilisé comme un carnet de notes. Chirping about Twitter - Features. Comment:Last Updated:25 April, 2013Section:Features Everyone from A-list stars to your youngest charge will now be familiar with Twitter. But how can it help in the classroom? When you saw that this article was about Twitter, did you sigh and shake your head? Maybe even curse the micro-blogging craze that you can’t help but hear about every other day? It was no surprise then that when Sir Jim Rose’s latest review proposed that schools include it in the primary curriculum, the news was met with a mixture of horror and disdain.
Many teachers have already learnt the hard way that maintaining some kind of online presence on Facebook can have disastrous consequences when they discovered that pupils were able to access half-naked/drunken/old (delete as appropriate) photos of them that friends had lovingly tagged. Josie Fraser (@josiefraser 2982 followers) is a social and educational technologist who was recently in consultation with Becta regarding Twitter’s input into the Rose review. Pros Cons. Professors experiment with Twitter as teaching tool. Facebook may be the social medium of choice for college students, but the microblogging Web tool Twitter has found adherents among professors, many of whom are starting to experiment with it as a teaching device. People use Twitter to broadcast bite-sized messages or Web links and to read messages or links posted by others.
It can be used as a source of news, to listen to what people in certain groups are talking about, or to communicate with experts or leaders in certain fields. Marquette University associate professor Gee Ekachai uses Twitter to discuss what she's teaching in class with students and connect them with experts in the field of advertising and public relations. Instructor Linda Menck, who also teaches at Marquette, encourages students to include social media as a strategy in marketing campaigns for clients.
Twitter is helping these professors build community in their classes in a way that appeals to some members of a Facebook-addicted generation. Live tweeting More informal. Écrans de veille en éducation » Archives du blog » Microblogging. 10 Most Extraordinary Twitter Updates. Twitter updates are used to communicate everything from birthday wishes to political opinions. But there are some special, shining cases where the status update has been used to do some extraordinary things, from marriage proposals to breaking news, and much more. The following are 10 of the most extraordinary and creative uses of Twitter updates.
These amazing updates have made the news, pushed the boundaries of what the status update can do, and have even fundamentally changed people's lives. This post is part of a Mashable mini-series providing analysis of social media’s smallest big trend: the status update. The series is supported by the TurboTax SuperStatus Contest, which invites you to win up to $25K for an interesting Twitter or Facebook message. 1. The marriage proposal On May 28th, Max Kiesler asked Emily Chang for her hand in marriage. Yes, in two little status updates, a couple got engaged. 2. When is it too early to let your kids tweet? 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Moore's response? 9.