Twitter is a great micro blogging site.Many people use the allowed 140 characters to answer the question “What´s happening”, but Twitter is a great education tool as well.These bloggers have written great information about the topic.
Using Twitter as an Education Tool
For those who are coming up to speed, Twitter lets you broadcast or microblog your messages (140 characters max) to a group of friends or other subscribers, who can receive them as text messages, called a “tweet,” to your subscribers and their mobile phones. Since almost everyone has a mobile phone now this makes Twitter more effective as a communication tool. …
Open interview with Jack Dorsey; is Twitter useful for education? (VIDEO)
The idea was to make an open interview, based on the questions sent to us by Twitter users. After writing some questions of our own and selecting the most appropriate ones from the received ones, we met Jack Dorsey in a Barcelona Hotel on March 2nd. …
Be sure to check out The Twitter Method for more great tips (and 7 free videos) of how to get the most of this great micro blogging site.
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Interesting blog. Nice to know that there still are blogs who make sense. =)
Nice post. I’ve been wanting to get into twitter. but don’t know to much about it. I’ve heard it is a good way to promote a site.
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Hi Applet, Twitter is a great tool and there is a lot of information about it available.If you are looking to use Twitter for marketing your site, the best way to start is to grab the free videos (Twitter method).
Absolutely. Its a great place for learning. Thanks for the useful links included in the post.
Hi Janet, thanks for commenting.Twitter is like a search engine nowadays, so it is easy to find information there.
Yes, it can be. Twitter can be used as an educational tool to let you send vital information to your students about the updates especially if you are into online teaching.
hay thanks for the tips,Yes its true that one can use twitter as an education tools. you can follow the user who all are interested with same industry and then can share deferent different question with them well!
I don’t use twitter that much because I don’t really get it. But I guess you can use it like if you want to send aa group message about where to meet up, you can just tweet your friends.
Twitter is very good for getting people to listen to interviews, especially when you have done a good job of targeting followers by shared interest.
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I took up an advertising course last year and our lecturer urge us all to sign up for Twitter. He’s a Twitter freak and he uses Twitter to update us on cool ads and also…class cancellations
According to me twitter is not only an educational tool , its product-launch place also. We can share information about our product on twitter.
i agree that twitter is great tool for education really it helps you lot.great way to advertise your product and making healthy business relation.
Actually this is a really good idea – but I am not sure if the teacher-student gap can be crossed so easily. Youngsters view twitter as recreational, an escape from the liner environment of the school. Perhaps they would resent teachers and other authority figures encroaching on “their” territory. It’s certainly up for debate.
Hi Gary, thanks for commenting.Very good points!
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