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Many people struggle to come to grips with twitter and its use for educators. For me it all boils down to collaboration, sharing useful practices, websites, technology and asking advise from the global staff room. What better audience for teachers?
The best applications for using Twitter in schools;
Twitter How To Guide - Start at the beginning with a how to guide for teacher twitters.
Why? – Why do we need twitter as a teacher ?
Who? Top 100 Educator Tweeters Educators twitter Google Docs Teacher Twitter Wiki
Tiny URL - What will your first tweet be about ? Perhaps a useful website? If so reduce the URL address to keep within your 140 character limit.
Tweetree - Tweetree puts your twitter stream in a tree so you can see the posts people are replying to in context. Manage – A variety of apps for managing multiple twitter accounts.
100 different apps for Twitter – Want more? Here are 100 more apps, resources and tips for teachers on Twitter.
