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TweepML – Share groups of Twitter Users

September 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Syndicated Post

Via @timbuckteeth I’ve recently run across a new tool for Twitter seems to have a lot of potential. TweepML is a service that lets you create indices of Twitter users that can made available to others.
The idea of cataloging groups of Twitter users is nothing new certainly, however the additional functionality that TweepML offers makes it a far preferable option to a standard web page or wiki article. In particular, whereas static indexes just provide links to view the profiles of other people on Twitter, TweepML actually lets …

Higher education twitter experiment

July 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Research, Tools & applications

Jason Rhode points to a university based twitter experiment in which Monica Rankin, professor of History at UT Dallas, explored ‘ how to reach more students and involve more people in class discussions both in and out of the classroom’. As Jason comments, it would be good to hear more reflections on the outcomes. The [...]

Jitters Over Twitter Are Easing

July 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Networked learning, Resources, Tools & applications

[image: mallix] An interesting article (26/6/09) by Susan Kinzie of the Washington Post suggests that many academics are overcoming fears and shortfalls in relation to Twitter. She says: “Adapting their teaching to take advantage of new technology, a small but growing number of college professors are using Twitter to keep discussions going long after class [...]

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Missing the boat … or jumping ship?

April 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Debates, Issues, Networked learning, Opinion

@etalbert pointed to an interesting post from Twitter yesterday that resonated with my current thoughts around enterprise vs cloud hosted applications. In his [not so] ‘Incredibly Dull’ blog Andrew Gent asks why we cannot replicate the level of participation that exists across social media and social networking sites such as FaceBook, MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter [...]

Twitter – WIIFM (What’s In It For Me)

April 15th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Connections & collaboration, Debates, Learning & teaching, Networked learning, Opinion

Photo by luc legay, Flickr, Creative Commons You can’t go past any mainstream media without stumbling upon an article about Twitter these days. More often than not it has to do with tweeting celebrities (eg. Hugh Jackman doesn’t seem to leave the SMH Technology pages for weeks now), but (un)surprisingly it is also quite often discussed [...]

State College EduBlogger Summer Bash

April 2nd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Events

This just in. Cole Camplese from Penn State University, Jim Groom from University Mary Washington (Virginia), educator and Middle East politics specialist Ed Webb (sorry Ed, don’t know what institution you teach at), and others have just begun chatting on Twitter about organizing a “State College EduBlogger Summer Bash” at some point in the near [...]