Twitter Strategies are a Must!

Have you been twittering too much? Do you have a twitter strategy? Twitter is becoming more and more common as a tool for social interaction – especially in education.  There are quite a few discussions going on now about its usage in e-learning and even face to face.  There are good twitter strategies and then there are those that just tweet away and fill the twitter ‘inbox’ of their followers.

If we are going to see Twitter become a Web 2.0 tool that is widely adopted by educators (both teachers and administrators), then those that use and advocate the use will need to have effective Twitter strategies.  One can quickly become inundated with “tweets” and then become turned off with the information overload.  Here is an acutal quote from a session I attended in which Twitter was the “backchannel” for communication:

“I wasn’t diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder until after I tried to follow today’s session”

Don’t get me wrong, I am a huge advocate for these tools and their clear benefit for education transformation.  However, I can quickly see how administrators AND teachers can see this as a ‘disruptive technology‘ in a negative way, unless there is a clear strategy for its use.  I came across a few resources that I hope can help provide clear tweeting strategies for you.  I just don’t want to see these tools become Web 2.0 clutter that loses its impact on education.

The Twitter Survival Guide
What Should You Tweet About?
50 Ideas for Twitter in Education
Using Twitter as an Education Tool

Please feel free to share others if you find them! Happy and effective tweeting to you!

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• To engage the education stakeholder in dialogues that hopefully result in innovation vs. just discussion
• To pose different points of view that can be debated, but ultimately result in strategies for students
• To provide resources that can assist in developing and implementing strategies that will work for student engagement.

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