Twitter in the Classroom

Tech Trend: Using Twitter in the Classroom

Short Summary: 50 ideas for incorporating Twitter into your classroom.

This site doesn't talk a lot about benefits or challenges, but has great specific ideas for using Twitter in the classroom.

Tech Trend: Using Twitter in the Classroom

Short Summary: Some great resources compiled on the benefits/challenges of using social media in the classroom, online safety, "netiquette", even parental resources.

This is a great resource to use when in the initial brainstorming phase for how to use social media (specifically Twitter) in the classroom. No real examples, lesson plans, etc. but tons of great resources otherwise.

Tech Trend: Using Twitter in the Classroom

Short Summary: Written by a professor at Rutgers, this article gives very specific steps for how to use technology in the classroom.

Doesn't give lesson plan examples, more a very general "beginning steps" article that gives strategies and tactics for integrating Twitter into a higher education classroom. Love that this specifically looks at the context of higher education.