Recently I was checking out my Twitter account and was sent a Tweet (via @timoreilly) containing a great resource, “Twenty Five Interesting Ways To Use Twitter in the Classroom,” compiled by Tom Barret (@tombarrett). This collection explains some very applicable ways to implement Twitter into the classroom. This reblog revisits the 25 tips and includes annotations of the resources discussed in the slide show.

1. Gather Real World Data (how to)

2. Monitor/GeoTag The “Buzzwords” (how to)

• TwitterFall – http://www.twitterfall.com
  Twitterfall is a way of viewing the latest ‘tweets’ of upcoming trends and custom searches on the micro-blogging site Twitter. Updates fall from the top of the page in near-realtime.
• TwitterMap – http://twittermap.com/maps
  Provides users with the ability to update their locations on a Google Map and send a tweet with it.

3. Summarize Topics/Views As Tweets (how to)

• Historical Tweets – http://historicaltweets.com/
  Most people think Twitter was “created” in 2006.  These are same people who think Richard Gere created Buddhism in the 1990’s.  Just before Madonna created yoga.  Folks, like the sun, moon, and stars, Twitter has always been.  This site proves it beyond a shadow of a doubt.

4. Really Simple One – Tweetstory (how to)

5. Collate Classroom Views (how to)

6. Let Parents Follow What You Are Up To (how to)

7. Find Out Where People Are (how to)

8. Short But Sweet (how to)

9. Twitter Poll (how to)

• TWTPoll – http://twtpoll.com/
  Twtpoll is a feedback tool that helps you to create and distribute polls on Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites.

10. Word Morph (how to)

• Wordle – http://www.wordle.net/
  Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

11. Come Together (how to)

12. Point Of View And Character Development (how to)

13. GeoTweets (how to)

• Google Earth – http://earth.google.com/
  Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places, and share with others.

14. Global Assembly (how to)

15. Word Play (how to)

16. Twiddeo (how to)

• Twiddeo – http://beta.twiddeo.com/
  Twiddeo is a powerful but simple service that let’s you do one thing very well: Twitter updates with Video. Upload from the web, your cameraphone and record from your webcam. That simple, that straightforward, that great!

17. Communicate Wwith Experts (how to)

18. Use Aa Twitter Widget For Instant Webpage Updates (how to)

• Twitter Badge – http://twitter.com/badges
  It’s like adding a mini version of Twitter to your website, Facebook or MySpace page. Twitter is all about sharing information and the new Twitter widgets allow you to do this in even more places!

19. Monitor The Learning Process (how to)

20. How Probable (how to)

21. Twalter-Egos (how to)

22. Scavenger Hunt (how to)

23. Track With Twitter (how to)

24. Teach Bite-Sized Info (how to)

25. Twitter As A Research Diary (how to) 

Credits:
“Twenty Five Interesting Ways To Use Twitter in the Classroom,”  by Tom Barrett.
Twitter artwork created by Mirjami Manninen.