The new academic year has started and as usual I am embedding technology in my teaching. This semester I am going to be more consciously using Twitter to post information to my current students rather than using Twitter to connect with my online colleagues.I am doing this because it is time to start applying what …
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Two years ago I said that I thought Twitter was taking it too far in the online world and I seriously couldn't see a role for it in my life... I have changed my tune! One year ago I tried to use Twitter more often, but found it daunting because I wasn't using an appropriate …
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This is a copy of an email I received in April... sorry it has taken me this long to share it!MADISON - In early April, Adam Wilson posted a status update on the social networking Web site Twitter - just by thinking about it. Click on this link to see a demonstration.Just 23 characters long, …
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On the 26th March 2009 I said "I don't see the point of Twitter" on my blog, but now I appear to be a born-again Twitter user! It's amazing! It was a gradual build-up, or was it a steady erosion? Either way, over time I started tweeting more frequently and following more and more people. …
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This link was sent to me by Susan Burwash... interesting article from the BBC about medical students using Twitter and Blogs to inappropriately share information about patients or institutions.Medics posting messages on networking websites like Facebook and Twitter are breaching patient confidentiality, a leading journal reveals.Research in the Journal of the American Medical Association found …
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