Twitter in Academics: This Prof Shows How to Do It I am floored and amazed by this amazing article about Twitter in Academics. (which I picked up from Twitter, of course.) The uses outlined by this visionary prof include (I include summaries and quotes from the prof): Class Chatter: Connecting the class with one another and the real world.Classroom Community: Adding the sixth sense to the classroom." This carried with it a range of benefits, from more productive classroom conversations (people were more willing to talk, and more respectful of others), and also helped me to understand what type of students they were...I can definitely say that changed the classroom dynamics for the better. Again, I highly recommend you read this whole article for not only is a good lesson about twitter, but also about the importance of reflective teaching and innovation. It is about Microblogging
20 TOEFL Tips 1. Familiarize yourself with the TOEFL format Most countries now offer the Internet based TOEFL (iBT). A few offer only the paper-based test (PBT). 2. The TOEFL is required for any non-native English student who wants to go to a post-secondary school in the United States. 3. TOEFL is used for a different purpose than other ESL tests. 4. The best way to prepare for the TOEFL is to practise doing the tests. 5. A reliable native English teacher who knows a lot about the TOEFL is one of the best resources a student can have. 6. The TOEFL test takes a long time to write. 7. If you arrive at the test centre with all of the things you need, you will feel calm and ready. 8. Plan to arrive at the test centre at least 30 minutes ahead of time. 9. You will have to fill out your answers on the computer and type your essay. 10. You will be able to take notes in each section as you take the TOEFL iBT. 11. Never leave a question blank. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Dress in comfortable layers on test day.
Guide to Twitter as a Tool for Marketing and PR In a previous post on MyBlogLog tips, I had mentioned a series of social media marketing posts Online Marketing Blog will be publishing where many of the tips will actually come from the community they’re about. Our next post in that series is about micro blogging phenomenon, Twitter. At first I balked at the idea of Twittering like many others but eventually signed up (leeodden) and have been tuned in ever since. There’s both a social/play and a social/communicate aspect to Twitter that makes it productive as a promotional tool for pointing to interesting things you’ve found on the web as well as a tool for building credibility and influence. It’s true that some people do use Twitter as if they’re trying to copy the most boring blog on the web. A variety of commercial applications for Twitter have begun popping up including political candidates posting updates from the road as has happened with Barack Obama & John Edwards.
Wired Campus: A Professor's Tips for Using Twitter in the C Twitter at first seemed like a bad idea to David Parry, an assistant professor of Emerging Media and Communications at the University of Texas at Dallas. For those not in the know, Twitter is a service that lets you micro-blog your life by dashing out very short notes (140 characters max) to a select group of friends or other subscribers, who can receive them as text messages on their cell phones. Mr.
Anything Could Happen - Twitter - Evan Williams What is Evan Williams doing? I ask myself this as I consume a second cup of strong coffee in a quiet San Francisco café. It is early in the morning on the first workday of the new year, and Williams is apparently blowing me off. For the past two weeks he has ignored my e-mails, phone calls, and text messages. This is odd. Eventually, Williams sends me an apologetic text message--we resolve to push back the meeting slightly--and then he does something else: He uses Twitter to send a text message to, oh, a few thousand people: "Late for my first meeting of the year and in need of a shave." Like so many technology entrepreneurs, Williams, whose friends call him Ev, is a software engineer. What is Twitter? The Idea Factory Williams's office is his business philosophy made manifest: Find smart people; put them together; stand back. This is Twitter, in all its wildly popular, ridiculous glory. This strange statement encapsulates Williams's business philosophy. But he doesn't care to.
Developing Reading Activities Developing reading activities involves more than identifying a text that is "at the right level," writing a set of comprehension questions for students to answer after reading, handing out the assignment and sending students away to do it. A fully-developed reading activity supports students as readers through prereading, while-reading, and post-reading activities. As you design reading tasks, keep in mind that complete recall of all the information in a text is an unrealistic expectation even for native speakers. Reading activities that are meant to increase communicative competence should be success oriented and build up students' confidence in their reading ability. Construct the reading activity around a purpose that has significance for the students Make sure students understand what the purpose for reading is: to get the main idea, obtain specific information, understand most or all of the message, enjoy a story, or decide whether or not to read more. Sample pre-reading activities:
Guide to Twitter for PR students During the Connect conference, a bunch of UGA students got hooked on Twitter, so I thought I'd provide a few tips on how PR students can use microblogs like Twitter to the best effect. 1. Don't take "What are you doing?" literally, at least not all the time. 2. 3. Jaiku, twitter : un canal de communication complémentaire pour M Dans la partie droite de ce site se trouvent depuis peu des petites bulles (sous l’appellation Latest from Momi Clic) contenant des messages courts en relation avec mes activités liées à Momi Clic. Ces messages proviennent du micro blog : momiclic.jaiku.com c’est quoi un microblog ? Et bien c’est un mix entre un blog (site web), le système sms et la messagerie instantanée (chat). Avec un micro blog, on peut envoyer, depuis son gsm ou la page internet du micro blog, des messages qui ne peuvent excéder 140 caractères. On peut également suivre les microblogs en allant sur la page web correspondante. J’ai créé deux micro blogs Momi Clic (cliquez pour voir à quoi cela ressemble : Pourquoi deux ? Parce que Jaiku est plus joli, plus stable, plus rapide quand on envoie un message via son gsm, il permet de publier des fils RSS qui l’alimenteront automatiquement (il syndique ainsi les articles publiés sur le site Momi Clic) MAIS est moins populaire que Twitter, donc touchera moins de personnes.
Twitter Tools Twitter has taken on a very important role in my online networking. I have written about Twitter-Changes in Networking back in December 07. Since then my networking habits have changed again, but in this post I don’t want to talk about what twitter is nor how and why I use it. Instead I want to show “other” tools that I use to get the most out of Twitter. Twitter has a search function, that allows you to search by username. Search is temporarily disabled. When trying to keep up with people replying to you directly, you can check several times a day the “Replies” tab or subscribe to the RSS feed of the Replies in your Reader. Make sure that you have gone into Twitter’s Settings and checked off that @ Replies read “Show me all @ replies”. Unfortunately this does NOT work for me, when someone did not start their Tweet with @langwitches. In order to get all replies to @langwitches I use a program called Tweet Scan. Another tool that I use on a consistent basis is Twitter Karma.
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