Kevin Blissett: Out of the Cave

Great video here highlighting lots of cool Twitter tools you can use to increase your effectiveness. (Friends in China need to use a proxy to access the video.)

Dan Schawbel, writing for Mashable, suggests a myriad of strategies for effectively getting your message out on Twitter and, at the same time, introduces many Twitter tools I hadn’t heard of before nor tried. I’m just beginning to work my way through several of them, but I particularly liked the first one I tried: TwitterGrader. [...]

I came across this excellent guide to social media from BusinessWeek via Mashable. Among the included articles are: CEOs Who Use Twitter Keeping Momentum in Social Media Starting a Corporate Social Network. Don’t! and nine other links Great info. Check it out.

My interest in Twitter continues unabated. David Hopkins posts a nice slideshow highlighting Twitter’s usefulness and application to teaching. Twitter in Education View more presentations from hopkinsdavid.

  As a follow up to my previous post on Twitter’s classroom applications, I touted the microblogging service as a nice agent for collaboration but struggled to come up with additional uses. In reading a Lifehacker article by Adam Pash, I realize that I may not have given Twitter enough credit for classroom application, especially as [...]

Tony Karrer investigates the Twitter phenomenon, particularly as it relates to learning and/or classroom application. I have to say, I’m finding it difficult to see how Twitter could be a major tool for learning in my classroom or personally, though it certainly can be a good tool for collaboration if used correctly. (As we cannot [...]

So the UK’s Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, Ed Balls, assures a teachers’ group the the recent revamping of the national curriculum will not forgo inspiring the nation’s children with a strong dose of history so that it can include skills related to Twitter and other social media. Well, isn’t that special! [...]