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Micro blogging and Twitter

Micro blogging and Twitter. Dr. Giti Javidi. What is Twitter?. Twitter is a micro blogging service for user to post short (140 characters max) blogs called tweets. So, you simply tweet your thoughts. Create an account on: www.Twitter.com. How does Twitter work on Cell Phone?.

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Micro blogging and Twitter

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  1. Micro blogging and Twitter Dr. GitiJavidi

  2. What is Twitter? • Twitter is a micro blogging service for user to post short (140 characters max) blogs called tweets. So, you simply tweet your thoughts. • Create an account on: • www.Twitter.com

  3. How does Twitter work on Cell Phone? • Many people tweet using their cell phones, and that reflects right beneath their tweets. If you want to tweet on the go, you can resort to your cell phone for tweeting. In fact, several smart phones have inbuilt application to facilitate tweeting on the move. That doesn't mean you can only tweet if you have a Wi-Fi enabled handset. It is possible to update your tweets, if you know how twitter works in this case, by simple text messages (even though twitter doesn't charge anything for this service, you will be charged by service provider for the SMS).

  4. Ideas • Twitter could be ideal for reminding students about homework, trips and such things, especially as they can enter their mobile phone number to be alerted when one of their ‘friends’ updates their account. The advantage is that you don’t need to know the phone numbers of students to get messages onto their device: they are the ones who authorize their mobile phone from the website and they subscribe to your Twitter feed. • Three potential uses of Twitter: (1) as a communications tool for collaborating researchers; (2) As a way to get students to focus in a concise (140 words) way on a topic; and (3) As a way for conference attendees to discuss topics, again in a concise manner. • Libraries could advertise a Twitter address which people could "follow" to learn about library events, new books, and other announcements. Twitter could also be used to announce responses to library user questions, which might be answered in greater length on a linked webpage.

  5. Educational Twitters? • http://www.plurk.com • http://www.posterous.com • http://www.edmodo.com • http://cooper-taylor.com/blog/2008/08/50-ideas-on-using-twitter-for-education/#

  6. List of Micro Blogging? • http://twitter4teachers.pbworks.com • http://suewaters.wikispaces.com/twitter • http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/2008/04/02/are-you-twittering-heres-how-i-use-twitter • www.ideastoinspire.co.uk/twitter.htm • www.scribd.com/doc/14062777/Twitter-Handbook-for-Teachers

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