twitter in education

http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhn2vcv5_118cfb8msf8 25 Interesting ways to use twitter in the classroom. This presentation gives two features that twitter offers Twitterfall and Twittermap these are two great resources that can be utilized to speed up research. Twittermaps also allows for you to see where certain topics are being discussed. These tools would be super beneficial at the secondary level. Another great idea is that it allows parents to follow you so that parents can know what it going on in the classroom at any given time.

http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2008/twitter-for-academia/ Twitter for academia  Twitter can be used for instant feedback. Using twitter to get students feelings prior to a class is a suggestion that is given. Also twitter can be used to follow conferences or make contacts with people that will be at a similar place in the future the example given was an educational conference.