Twitter Fountain: share tweets with the same tags

This is a great way to share tweets with the same keyword or hashtag.

1. Click on SETTINGS at the bottom of the animation image

2. Type the Keyword or hashtag, select the animation type, speed. Click SAVE SETTINGS.

3. Click SHARE to grab the embed code for publishing





First, I tried one with the Keyword "anamariacult", my webname.



Then, one with the hashtag #EdmodoCon , a Virtual Conference taking place next week, 10 August.

12 seconds

This is a site I had heard before but hadn´t tried yet, you need to have an invite though. You can record 12-second videos with your webcam or mobile, then post it or have it sent directly to twitter. So, instead of having written updates you can also use video.As you might have imagined 12 seconds is a very short time so you have to be very objective in what you say or show (just like in twitter). Just below is my first trial.

How can we use this tool with students?

Well, the best post I´ve read about this was written by Nik Peachey and my suggestion is that you go straight to his post to read all the great suggestion he´s given to teachers. Really worth reading.

• Nik Peachey´s post
  

testing 12seconds on 12seconds.tv

PHWEET.com - calling from Twitter

Phweet - Smart Links Calling via kwout

With Phweet you can make a call to one or more twitter friends without having to use skype or other application. I haven´t tested it yet buy looks promising.

Phweet - Smart Links Calling via kwout

LWC session about Twitter

I´d like to invite language teachers who are interested in exploring web tools in education to join us in a session at the Yahoo Community "Learning with Computers" starting on 19th May.

Microblogging:

The session is devoted to exploring one of the possibilities of microblogging: TWITTER . First join the "Learning with Computers" Communityand then follow the weekly tasks proposed in the wiki so that we can explore this tool together.

My TWITTER experience

Twitter is used for microblogging and what is that? People write what they are doing at the moment in a maximum of 140 words. Not only do people write what they´re doing but they post questions and even reply to their friends. I decided to record my trip to argentina in TWITTER as I travelled and I´ve been told that lots of people enjoyed following my adventure. Mary Hillis an e-colleague (have I coined a term? guess not) from Japan has done a survey in twitter recently and this is another usage people are discovering for twitter.

What I like about twitter?

• I like the speed.
• I like the fact that you´re not expected to write a masterpiece but only something short.
• I like the asynchronous interaction it establishes.

You can also add a twitter widget to your blog so that your readers can follow what you´re doing and that´s what I´ve just added to my sidebar "What am I doing?". You can get a twitter widget for your own blog at http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/twidget
after you have a twitter account.