Microblogging in Education
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
It turned out that microblogs are important tools not only for networking, communication and learning, but also for forming communities of practices.
Here I am offering you a few lists with educators who like Plurk and Twitter. The aim is to bring together the teachers who have the same interests and also to easily help new educators to connect with other professionals.
- Directory of Learning Professionals on Twitter created by Jane Hart;
- Spreadsheet with Educators on Twitter made by Liz B. Davis, you can register here;
- List with Educators Plurkers created by Kymberli Mulford;
- Another wiki list with Educators on Plurk that is started by Prof. Bill Graziadei;
- List with Educators on Utterli started by Prof. Bill Graziadei;
- Table with Educators using microblogs organized by Prof. Bill Graziadei, the registration form is here;
- Can we use Twitter for educational activities?
- Teaching with Twitter
- Do you Plurk? Do you Twitter? Do you What?
- Plurk Works!!!
- Plurk at Work
- Academic Aesthetic 165: Twitter vs Plurk
- Why I *heart* Plurk
- Twittering birds and headless dogs
- List of twitter resources uncovered during recent bout with research
- Educators Test the Limits of Twitter Microblogging Tool
- Twitter for teachers and students
- Twitter Handbook on Education
- Twitter in Higher Education
- 50 Ideas for Using Twitter in Education
- Using Microblogging in Education: Case Study
Excellent post. It's good to see so many resources aggregated for such an important topic.
Malinka
Thank you for your post. You inspired me to follow up on Sprout and Plurk.
I posted the result of your inspiration at http://keithlyons.wordpress.com/2008/12/26/sprouting/
Best wishes
Keith
Hi,
Thanks for including in your list our article Using microblogging in education. Case Study, about cirip.ro.
You are welcome on the platform to share with other teachers and to use it for your courses.
Please see also the article Can we use Twitter for educational activities?.
Merry Christmas,
Carmen
Title is suggestive and you've got attention from prominent Downes. That's how I did get here.
Great post. I am still looking for edublogs rated by Google and its PR. Do you have any information? Or is it that needs to be built yet?
Again, thanks.
Hi Malinka, thanks for this great resource! Simon
Skip, Keith and Simon, thank you for your involvement in this topic and also for the possibility to exchange ideas with you via microblog!
Carmen, your paper "Can we use Twitter for Educational Activities?" is so useful resource for the educators to design a wide set of learning activities and to organize a dynamic and engaging learning process!Thank you for sharing!
Tonnet, I do not possess information about edublogs'Google rating, although it is a good idea! Thank you for stopping by!
Micro-blogging is more fragmented, making it harder to follow a thread, but comments arrive rapidly and are more spontaneous. thank you for shearing your post.