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2. DEFINITION OF TOOL
• Twitter is online social networking service
• Enable user to send and read text-based up to 140 characters =
“tweets”
• User can tweet & update profile via :
website
Smartphones
Short message service(SMS)
• Twitter has been compared to a web-based Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
client. In a 2009 Time essay, technology author Steven Johnson
described the basic mechanics of Twitter as "remarkably simple".
3. INVENTOR
Jack Dorsey (born in November 19, 1976) is an American web
development and businessman widely known as the creator of
Twitter and as the founder and CEO of Square, a mobile
payments company. In 2008, he was named to the MIT
Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the
world under the ages of 35.
4. ADVANTAGES OF USING THE TWITTER
1. Twitter Offers Free Widgets and Apps
With a flexible selection of free widgets and mini-applications available, it’s
easy to embed a link to your Twitter feed (or even a subset of the feed itself)
into your personal or company web site.
2. Twitter is Easy to Use
Twitter limits its updates to 140 characters, so there’s no need (or
temptation) to launch into long-winded prose or to over-explain your
thought. There is only one main screen, so you never have to search around
for what you’re looking for.
3. Twitter is Easy to Join
It takes less than a minute to create an account with Twitter and start
“tweeting.” The rules of the game are pretty straightforward. Registration is
instant, and there is no need to follow up with a confirmation email.
5. WAYS OF USING IN TEACHING AND LEARNING
1. Tweet about upcoming due dates or assignments.
One of the simplest ways that teachers can use Twitter in their
classroom involves setting up a feed dedicated exclusively to due
dates, tests or quizzes.
2. Provide the class with a running news feed.
Subscribe to different mainstream and independent news feeds with
different biases as a way to compare and contrast how different
perspectives interpret current events and issues.
3. Create a career list.
Set up an interesting assignment requesting that students set up Twitter
lists following feeds relevant to their career goals and keep a daily
journal on any trends that crop up along the way
6. 4. Track memes.
As inane as Justin Bieber’s popularity is, at least an educational
opportunity lurks around the corner. Instructors concerned with
communication and sociology issues can easily find a number of
different lessons on how ideas and fads spread throughout different
media sources.
5. Coordinate assignments.
Rather than keeping up with an e-mail train, students can use Twitter to
collaborate on different projects and keep a quick reference on any
changes.
6. Track a hash tag.
More ambitious educators may want to incorporate Twitter in lessons
that track hash tags for another interesting lesson in how trends spread
and the various ways in which people use social media to communicate
ideas.
WAYS OF USING IN TEACHING AND LEARNING
7. 7. Connect with the community.
Partner up with local government or charitable organizations and use
Twitter to reach a broad audience discussing the latest cultural or
educational events in the area and encourage others in the community
to attend.
9. Write a story or poem.
Many writers and poets have experimented with Twitter’s 140-character
format to bring new, serialized works in small chunks to attention-
divided audiences. Some educators may like the idea of asking their
students to apply their creative writing skills to a restrictive social
media outlet.
10. Live tweet field trips.
Sick kids or paranoid parents may like the idea of following along with
class field trips on Twitter, and smart phone-enabled teachers can keep
them engaged with pictures and descriptions of the lessons learned.
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