Twitter



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media type="custom" key="14864964" = = =Overview by L. Ullman, D. Beckworth, R. Jacklin= Twitter, a social network and microblog, was founded in San Francisco, California by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Even Williams, and Biz Stone in 2006. It delivers stories, ideas, news and opinions in real time. Users can pick the information that they think is interesting and follow it. The information is delivered in something called a “Tweet” that is only 140 characters or less. You can also add photos and videos to your Tweets. It can be used by businesses and people all over the world. You can follow people or businesses on Twitter without actually Tweeting yourself. media type="youtube" key="4YGp4cWdndc" height="315" width="420" =Ideas for Classroom Use by L. Ullman, D. Beckworth, R. Jacklin= media type="youtube" key="6WPVWDkF7U8" height="315" width="560"
 * **Classroom Homework**-- Many teachers are using Twitter as a way of communicating homework and upcoming events to parents and students. <[]>
 * **Role Playing**--Literature classes and religion class have used Twitter as a platform for role-playing story characters. Students tweet either using a specific hashtag or unique twitter account to play-out the plot line of their story in the social media space. Examples:
 * [] Romeo and Juliet played out in the Twitter. Actors/students take on the persona of their characters of the play and tweet either with text from the play or adlib according to their understanding about their character.
 * [|HolyTweek]--Very similar to the Romeo and Juliet Twitter play above. Students from Abiding Savior Lutheran School in St. Louis, MO and their teacher [|Scott Akerson] tweeted as if they were players in the Holy Week Passion. The link to Holy Tweek above is a "[|Twournal]" or journal of all the tweets which used the #hlytwk hashtag and were part of the conversations.
 * **Back-Channel**--While watching a movie or presentation in class, have students tweet thoughts, questions, or ideas using a common hashtag. The effectiveness of this depends on the maturity of the students, but searching the hashtag on [|http://search.twitter.com] will yield a running record of all the tweets.
 * What Twitter feeds should I follow? Below are some links of suggestions
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