Week 8 - Twitter

Twitter proves itself a helpful ally to a teacher in many ways. It provides an excellent medium for teachers to share experiences,  blogs, and classroom ideas with each other. Presenting an opportunity for global collaboration between teachers, Twitter builds community between people with like interests, even though they may live across the world from each other. Twitter is also lends itself to a teacher by organizing tweets according to hashtags. Thus, if a teacher wants her students to tweet a reply to, say, a literature question, they can send their reply, all under the same, unique hashtag, and Twitter will collect the responses.