Educational Screencasts 006: Twitter in the Classroom

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Twitter is more than an IM. It is a combination of blogging (mini blogging), emails, IM, and chatroom. The only difference is a max of 140 characters.

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Thanks for the video! I'm thinking about using twitter in my class this fall. I'm not clear on the difference between doing a regular search for a term on Twitter and a search using the # like your #backchannel example. Could you just tell you class to include a nonsense syllable like njp at the end of their comments, or is there something special about the #?