eLearn: Feature Article - The Effects of Twitter in an Online Learning Environment. eLearn: Feature Article - Learn From Rogue Tweeters: Onlinefacilitation - Twitter Collaboration Stories. Teaching with Twitter. Can we use Twitter for educational activities? Twitter - A Teaching and Learning Tool | ICT in my Classroom. I think I have found the perfect place to reflect on the way a network, and specifically how Twitter, can impact on what goes on in the classroom.
No mains gas, no telephones, no mobile signal, no internet connection, no possible way to interact with my personal learning network (PLN). Tucked away in the Cornish countryside the location of the cottage we are staying in provokes vocabulary such as: isolated, severed, detached and remote. But similar rhetoric could also be applied to the lack of connection I have with my network. I am removed from the network I want to reflect upon and away from the classroom that it can impact. Twitter: a communication tool In my experience, and in the short time that I have used it, Twitter has grown quickly to play a major part in the way that I interact with fellow colleagues and professionals from around the world. This diagram is a simplistic representation of my network in terms of numbers. Unique communication Manageable networks A global network.