presentation at a Learning and Teaching Enhancement Office Staff Meeting - 3rd April, 2008

1. Twitter … what is it good for? A 15 minute introduction http://tasterseries.wordpress.com/technology-tasters/twitter-taster/ Tag: eatbath-present08

3. What is twitter?

4. Twitter is … Twitter is a free social networking and micro- blogging service that allows users to send "updates" (or "tweets"; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (e.g. on a cell phone), instant messaging , or a third-party application such as Twitterrific or Facebook . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter [2nd April, 2008] … www.twitter.com

5. Why might you use it? http://www.flickr.com/photos/fiish/2069854792/

6. It might be used for … http://www.flickr.com/photos/fiish/2069854792/ http://www.mobile-learning.blog-city.com/twitter__is_it_an_maturing_learning_technology.htm Lecturer centred Student centred http://www.flickr.com/photos/dsevilla/1910384749/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kosmonautica/1949361074/

7. My thoughts … a practitioner www.twitter.com/andyramsden Good Bad Ugly As a micro blogging tool 1-2-1 communications Openness - no group mangement Social networking tool Integration with other tools Mobile dimension

8. thank you