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The Connected Teacher

A Twitter Cartoon to Mock Your Existence

FTI:  Billion Dollar Twitter

Twitter in Plain English

27 Interesting Ways to Use Twitter in the

Classroom

Twitter- Sign up for an account!

URL shorteners (not only for Twitter!)          

http://bit.ly     http://tinyurl.com   http://3.ly

Tweet your comments to @edtec4matc: http://twitter.com

Developing a Personal Learning Network (PLN)

How to build a PLN

Delicious meets Twitter meets Delicious

Friendfeed (an option to Twitter)

Edmodo (another option to Twitter)

Edmodo Help Wiki

Twitter for backchanneling 

Backchanneling is the practice of using networked computers to maintain a real-time online conversation alongside live spoken remarks. The term was coined in the field of Linguistics to describe listeners’ behaviours during verbal communication, Victor Yngve 1970.

Other popular applications for backchanneling are

Today's Meet      Chatzy

100 Twitter Feeds to Make You a Better Teacher

Try: #highered 

Try:  #esl and/or #tefl and/or #efl

Try: #edtec

Try:  #psychology

1. Read:  Twitterthings    Twitterthings2
2. Read:  Seven Ways to Find Teachers on Twitter
3. Read:  Twitter Guide for Teachers
4. View:  How to Read a Tweet
5. View:  The Shy Connector

Read: Is Friendfeed Facebook's Twitter Killer?

Social Bookmarking:

Social bookmarking applications allow

users to share their favorite online content

with one another while also creating online

bookmarks that the user can refer to in the

same way he would a bookmark created

offline in his web browser. (McIntosh, 2/09)

Connotea  & Citeulike  (research), 

Diigo,    Del.icio.us,    Digg,  
Reddit      Jumptags

StumbleUpon

Tags

Work with teams to explore and discover     

the benefits of the different social bookmarking sites.

Digitally Speaking:  Social Bookmarking & Annotating

Diigo Tutorial

Personal Learning Networks -

Start developing your own!

Read:

1.  PLN: Your Personal Learning Network
     Made Easy          http://3.ly/7Cg

2.  PLN Yourself!       http://3.ly/Bp2

3.  PLN Blueprint       http://3.ly/pfS

1.  This week's blog post should be about your experiences setting up your PLN (personal learning network), the people you connect with, any positives or negatives that occur, and any questions or revelations that you have while in search of global colleagues. 

2,  More Web Tools for Work or Play:  Find and experiment with a few tools/applications.  Think about how you might use these tools in one of your courses.  Think about what you will want to use for your project.