I have had a few emails recently from friends who are not down with the Tweeting…they do not know what Twitter is and frankly, do not understand it’s value. I must admit, I had never really twittered before the Top 5. I had created a few accounts for some of my clients, but had not [...]

Trouble with Twitter

Een prikkelende parodie op het twitterfenomeen.

Everybody is now a day talking about twitter or tweeting. It is a microblogging (only 140 characters max) medium of communication between friends and family members through internet or cell phones.Here is video to explain what tweeting is all about.You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

Stay turned... the rest of the SuperNews! season is coming and you'll like what we have coming. :-)

http://current.com/supernews

From Jenny Luca, I had a play with the Twitter mosaic tool (just for fun). It is fascinating to  visual image of who is following you. Get your twitter mosaic here. I have been thinking about tools for use by students and of course there was all that attention given to the Twitter race between CNN and Ashton Kutcher. I was offline for most of the Easter holidays so I was not reading much either the rss feeds or even twitter. Unlike Ashton, I have been trying to keep my twitter numbers down, closer to something I can actually manage (just about anyway). I really use my twitter to find out what others, especially those invloved in education, are doing/using. I have also used it to ask for advice/help on items. The power of twitter was reinforced when Insight (SBS) organised a discussion around the Australian Governments internet filter (Blocking the Net). I was watching the program and became very irritated about the direction of the discussion and lack of big picture and all the (wider) implications  and the overall usefullness of such a filter. Those who were watching the program with access to twitter had a much richer and varied discussion. (Have a look at the Twitter discussion and responses here).Laura Walker had a very thoughtful post  on 9 reasons why educators should be using Twitter. There are a growing number of great ways to use Twitter in the clasroom. I am interested in developing something for the students in our Tertiary Orientation Program (year 10). These are not academic boys and they do not like reading and/or writing to any great extent. Aside from using the audio tools eg podcasting etc, I thought Twitter might provide them with a more inviting writing experience. With the limit to the characters the boys will not be daunted by the amount and with this limit, they will have to be very clear-minded about what it is they are writing.Some information I found useful was in post from AcademicHack, the wiki “Using Twitter in the classroom” , the post “50 Ideas on Using T

www.twitter.com/noreaga. Go flood the mans twitter. He gets them all direct now. This shit is funny, spotted @ OnSmash

yippity yap!

This vid giving a description of twitter made me lol @ work.
My co-worker asked me what I was laughing at and mentioned it was a vid making fun of twitter and he then asked me what twitter is :)