Today one of my colleagues sent a link to "How One Teacher Uses Twitter in the Classroom," the story of University of Texas at Dallas History Professor, Monica Rankin's use of Twitter. The included Youtube video has a number of interviews with students describing why this is a such a useful tool.
Even better, though was a link in the post to Jane Hart's Directory of Learning Professionals (& Others) on Twitter. What a great selection of folks to follow to understand more about how the world is using this too.

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