Bootstrapping Our Way Across the Curriculum
Twitter
Okay it’s a noun and verb.
I was at an economic gardening conference last week, where one of the organizers kept saying you have to be under 25 to know what it is. Bollocks! Twitter is a form of microblogging. Unlike this blog which can go on and on, a tweet is limited to 140 characters. So you either write something very short or use text speak kwim (know what I mean). This message goes out into the twitterverse. Anyone who has signed up as a follower on your twitter site can login into twitter and see what you sent out or can have this automatically sent to their cell phone.
The New Media Consortium put out a wonderful report The Horizon Report 2008. http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Horizon-Report.pdf
Twitter is referred to more than a few times, but I believe right now your twitter groups are the fastest way for you to connect to your social networks and collective intelligence.
I know you're asking yourself, why would I microblog, I don't even blog? But when you first heard about SL didn’t it take awhile to figure out what to do with that?
You can take a look at http://twitter.com/
The Center for Edupunx does have a twitter site.
It’s http://twitter.com/center4EduPunx
Please feel free to follow us and we’ll follow you.
For further illumination on twitter go to my favorite non-peer reviewed encyclopedia
wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter
Okay it’s a noun and verb.
I was at an economic gardening conference last week, where one of the organizers kept saying you have to be under 25 to know what it is. Bollocks! Twitter is a form of microblogging. Unlike this blog which can go on and on, a tweet is limited to 140 characters. So you either write something very short or use text speak kwim (know what I mean). This message goes out into the twitterverse. Anyone who has signed up as a follower on your twitter site can login into twitter and see what you sent out or can have this automatically sent to their cell phone.
The New Media Consortium put out a wonderful report The Horizon Report 2008. http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Horizon-Report.pdf
Twitter is referred to more than a few times, but I believe right now your twitter groups are the fastest way for you to connect to your social networks and collective intelligence.
I know you're asking yourself, why would I microblog, I don't even blog? But when you first heard about SL didn’t it take awhile to figure out what to do with that?
You can take a look at http://twitter.com/
The Center for Edupunx does have a twitter site.
It’s http://twitter.com/center4EduPunx
Please feel free to follow us and we’ll follow you.
For further illumination on twitter go to my favorite non-peer reviewed encyclopedia
wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter
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Amazing Use of Web 2.0
I was late learning about this storyy - Beth told me about this twittering incident and sent me the link. It is a phenomenonal story about the Web 2.0 and world citizenship.
Student 'Twitters' his way out of Egyption jail.
James Karl Buck helped free himself from an Egyptian jail with a one-word blog post from his cell phone.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/25/twitter.buck/
(Of course we know the CNN headline should be "Student 'tweets' his way out of Egyptian jail."
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