Twitter

 //"Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: **What are you doing?"**//

Twitter has become so much more than a simple, 140-character answer to the question "//What are you doing?//". It has become a always-on communication tool and news exchange for people to connect with their friends and personal learning networks, [|libraries] to announce new books and library events, salespeople to market their products, schools and educators to announce events, where [|politicians] are politicking, users are discussing [|newly released products], eyewitnesses tweeting [|breaking news] and details of [|catastrophic events], and echoing the [|voices] of  [|people seeking free elections] living under repressive governments. We have only started to realize the potential of this powerful tool that is connecting the world.

[|How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live] (TIME June 5, 2009)

Go to [|Twitter.com] and click “[|Get Started NOW]” = = = =



[|Mashable's TWITTER TOOLBOX -- 60 Twitter Tools] [|Twitter -- a Teaching and Learning Tool] [|twitter4teachers] [|Liz Davis' Educators on Twitter] [|Twitter Support] [|Librarians on Twitter] [|A Guide to Twitter in Libraries] [|Twitter Tinkering]

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//The following was originally published April 6, 2009 at []//

Just read a great blog post, "**[|Nine great reasons why teachers should use Twitter]**" that I believe would be timely reading within our district. Principals are starting to use [|Twitter] with encouragement from the department of Community Relations and Communications. Students are starting to use twitter with teacher supervision to communicate with parents. The district used Twitter to quickly communicate our snow days just last week. I believe using Twitter as a just-in-time communication tool is starting to be understood and valued in St. Vrain.

Check out this article and forward it on to teachers that are considering and learning about Twitter. What are the reasons you use Twitter? Do you agree with all of those listed in the linked blog post? What has been the most valuable use of Twitter for you? Books are the silver of the mind. If left on the shelf, they tarnish, but if read, they give your mind the glitter of new ideas and the shine of a renewed motivation to solve the challenges of life and success. by Louis Sportelli, D.C.