What Educators Need to Know About Twitter

Questions to Consider:

Have you been phished?
How many different passwords do you use online? Do you change them?
How might educators harness Twitter for 'synchronous' discussions?



Related Websites:
Phishing
Digital Gangster
Twitter Hacker Confesses
Biz Stone, Historical Tweet, Darth Vader
Journchat (Mon 7-10pm CST) recent discussion.
TweetDeck
Everything Twitter

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Twitter, TweetDeck and Massively Open Online Discussions

If you have yet to try TweetDeck, put it on your ToDo list! There are many reasons why I expect this Adobe Air tool to become the Twitter client of popular choice in 2009.

Click the image for a quick overview of TweetDeck:

As users expand the use of Twitter to engage in wide-ranging and ongoing discussions, TweetDeck will remain agile enough to track group activity; to search keywords; or to gather 'hashtags'.

As just one example, Alec Couros' recently recreated a PLN vs. PLE debate, which may have been one of the first massively open online discussions. The use of a tool like TweetDeck will allow users to engage in multiple self-organizing discussions.

A brief tutorial, outlining some of the possibilities, appears below: