Shawn Kimball's Twitter for Education

Using Twitter to Improve Teaching and Learning

See also Hampden Academy Broncos YouTube Channel

"Blogs vs the. Real-Time Web"

Twitter World

Who would have thought that such a seemingly innocuous web application with the simple question, "What are you doing," would suddenly explode into such a versatile tool? Following the history of the domain name at the Wayback Machine archives shows its humble beginnings and yet it now is becoming more powerful by the day. Check out the NYT article on new uses being dreamed up and implemented.

Twitter Toolbox

Earlier Post: "Pros & Cons of Twitter"

Pros & Cons of Twitter

Twitter - What are you doing?


CommonCraft "In Plain English"


Twitter4Teachers Wiki
Twitter as a News Source
Tweeting the Terror: How Social Media Reacted to Mumai




Essential Question: What is the upside and downside of Twitter?



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Essential Question: What do we gain and lose from using Twitter?


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Why Teens Don't Tweet

Something New: Tweach!
50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College Classroom