William F. Garrity

In TECH & LEARNING, actually a list of ways to use Twitter.  I do many of these. 

25 Ways to Teach with Twitter 

Sonja Cole, Jun 4 2009 9:17AM

Twitter can feel like a strange new landscape when you first jump in. It is not always clear what its professional uses are, or what to post in 140 characters or less. But when you start to think of Twitter as a micro-blog (and not just a forum for the personal minutiae of people’s daily lives), you will find that Twitter can be a valuable tool for professional development. Here are 25 ways that teachers can use Twitter to ask for help, get lesson plan ideas, book and professional resource recommendations, connect with other professionals, and even host an online book club.

First, a guide to Twitter shorthand. You will see examples of these in the sample tweets that follow:

• @username: creates a link to that user in your post.
• RT: Retweet, to copy someone else's post in a new update. Give them credit by adding their @username.
• #: hashtag, helps to organize your tweets into categories for easier searching.
• DM: Direct message, send a tweeter a private message instead of an update that all your followers can read.

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