You may well be sick of hearing about Twitter, but have you thought about it in the context of learning and teaching?  Here’s a brief run-down of how it can work:

• Wired campus reports on a Professor from Pennsylvania State University who uses two screens when he is lecturing - one to project his slides, and another to project a Twitter stream of notes from students.
• The Chronicle of Higher Ed has a twitter feed, which is followed by more than 1,300 people interested in higher-education news.
• This article lists 10 people worth following on Twitter, including Jay Rosen, associate professor of journalism at New York University who posts 25 times a day, and Amanda French, who is planning to Twitter her dissertation!
• Check out the Twitter Handbook for Teachers, which offers an overview of Twitter and ways of using it in education
• Birmingham City University academics criticised for offering a £4000 masters degree covering Twitter and other social networking websites are defending themselves on Twitter.  See The Guardian report.
• Join the LTC social network to discuss Twitter and other technologies for learning and teaching.

If you don’t know what Twitter is, check out the video Twitter in Plain English:

Filed under: Assessment and Marking, Social Networks, Technologies by Agnes Bosanquet