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03 Apr, 2007

Twitter? Really?

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Social Web

Okay… I have been reading about twitter in all sorts of forums including Time Magazine the past month or so.  Just like everything I do, I signed up and tried it out… but didn’t see the point a couple of weeks ago.  Well, it just won’t go away, so I am going to try and again a little bit more. 

I have embedded a twitter badge on my sidebar that I will attempt to update throughout the day with what I am doing.  But I think the point of twitter is to make friends and follow what they are doing.  So if you use twitter, please let me know so I can add you as a friend.  Feel free to add me as a friend too.  (http://twitter.com/edutechie)  If you don’t use twitter, feel free to sign up and use me to test it out with me. 

So the real question is… how can we use this in education?  Not sure yet… I’ll let you know…

2 Responses to "Twitter? Really?"

1 | Garry Brand

April 3rd, 2007 at 7:59 am

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I’ve been thinking about some of the educational applications of Twitter too. I also posted a badge and my thoughts on http://www.grcc.edu/gbrand. Let’s share anything we come up with!

Garry

2 | Jeff VanDrimmelen

April 3rd, 2007 at 10:31 am

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Thanks to one of my new found friends on twitter (edventures) I just saw this site:

http://twittervision.com/

I could watch this for hours… do you think big brother is?

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Jeff - I am an Instructional Technologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I love Google, Mac's, and Web Technologies that help us better reach, teach, connect, and prepare students to solve the world's greatest problems.