025+Tweets+for+Education


 * ID: 025

Title:** Tweets for Education

Liz Kumabe, Department of Educational Technology, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Hawaii, USA, kumabe@hawaii.edu Jean Isip Schneider, Department of Educational Technology, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Hawaii, USA, isip@hawaii.edu Matt Spencer, Department of Educational Technology, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Hawaii, USA, mks@hawaii.edu
 * Presenters:**

Micro-blogging applications give people the opportunity to share short updates about themselves, their lives, and their whereabouts online. Users post messages about their status, their mood, their location; and recommend information and resources to others and generally anything else that comes to mind. As of December 2008, 11% of online American adults said they used micro-blogging to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others. Just a few weeks earlier, in November 2008, 9% of internet users did this, while in May of 2008, 6% used micro-blogging. The most popular of these micro-blogging sites is Twitter. Twitter is microblogging, instant messaging, social networking and Web 2.0 all rolled into one. Twitter allows users to send messages, or “tweets” from a computer or mobile phone, in 140 characters or less. Twitter came online in 2006 and has experienced exponential growth. This learning object attempts to illustrate examples of how Twitter, a mobile and context-aware technology, is being used in education.
 * Description**:

Learning Object Project, Educational Technology, Designing Online Courseware Class [|Link to Learning Object]
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