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Web 2.0 Teaching Tools: Twitter Tweets for Higher Education March 27, 2009

A round-up of some educational uses of Twitter, by Alan Lew:
"I actually had not considered it as a tool for education until I saw a link posted by Twittown to a blog post on that subject. Doing a little online searching (emphasis on the little), I found the following items related to Twitter and education."

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• Me on Twitter (journalism)

  • Job: chief sub-editor @NrthLondonNews: http://t.co/oPVpzR5F (via @PhotogAMS) 59 minutes ago
  • FT owner Pearson said to be front-runner to buy private College of Law and so gain degree-awarding powers http://t.co/3qHfFckH 2 hours ago
  • MT @hwallop: a long-shot, I know, but trying to track down Habitat shopper who bought one of the original garlic crushers sold in late 60s 2 hours ago
  • MT @jburnmurdoch: 5 fascinating #datajournalism projects: http://t.co/v5wtRnQI -- on last week's #opendataLDN event #ddj 4 hours ago

• Me on Twitter (education)

  • FT owner Pearson said to be front-runner to buy private College of Law and so gain degree-awarding powers http://t.co/M6RuaN5l 2 hours ago
  • How far does increased emphasis on research risk leading to less of focus on students' experience of teaching & learning? #ldcshowcase 6 days ago
  • Hurrah, using assessment for learning finally gets an explicit mention at #ldcshowcase @cityldc 1 week ago
  • Prof Nigel Duncan argues for motion that assessment in HE relies largely on few methods not always fit for purpose #ldcshowcase @cityldc 1 week ago

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