What is Twitter? Twitter is a website site where you have 140 characters to give your message. You follow people and they follow you.  So you can see each others messages. Messages are called Tweets! What is the purpose of Twitter? it allows you to connect instantaneously with people all around the globe to share ideas, resources, news and much more. Many educators have accounts on Twitter and a font of useful information, there are also news services such as the ABC that ‘tweet’ the latest news, celebrities that tell you what they are doing, airline companies, bands, cruise lines, churches, emergency services even Kevin Rudd. I have even seen a twitter account which tweets each earthquake in the world as they happen!

Twitter has also been an amazing resource for broadcasting the news before the news services get onto it. See my post here where I speak about the speed at which social media such as Twitter and Fazcebook had accurate news on the Korumburra Earthquakes!

So how do you use Twitter? Sue Waters has written an excellent post on a wiki which pretty much sums it up so I am not going to reinvent the wheel. So click here to go to the wiki post

My Twitter account is: ldumicich

Some interesting people to follow to get you started…

Kevin Rudd

David Hughes

Lifechurch.tv

ABC News

Getting started, follow some people that you know and some famous people/organisations. Start slowly or else you will be overwhelmed with info!

Some useful links for how it can be used in an educational setting….

Interesting ways to use Twitter int he classroom

New Tools Workshop – Twitter

Twitter for Learning

Twitter handbook for Teachers

History Teachers on Twitter

50 Ideas for using Twitter in Education

Twitter Transforms Teaching

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