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Teaching With Twitter: Not for the Faint of Heart - Technology -

By Jeffrey R. Young West Lafayette, Ind. Maybe Sugato Chakravarty should wear a helmet to class. http://chronicle.com/article/Teaching-With-Twitter-Not-for/49230/

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. http://web20teach.blogspot.com/2007/08/twitter-tweets-for-higher-education.html

Classroom2.0: Twitter, del.icio.us and participatory learning

I do not use a textbook. It is not that I dislike textbooks. It is that my textbook is the web. http://melaniemcbride.net/2008/02/10/classroom20-twitter-delicious-and-participatory-learning/

How to start a Twitter hashtag — contentious.com

http://www.contentious.com/2008/11/20/how-to-start-a-twitter-event-hashtag/ More and more people are covering live events and breaking news via Twitter — and usually there are several Twitter users covering the same event. Hashtags are a handy tool for pulling together such disparate coverage. A hashtag is just a short character string preceded by a hash sign (#). This effectively tags your tweets — allowing people to easily find and aggregate tweets related to the event being covered. If you’re live-tweeting, you’ll want to know and use an appropriate hashtag.