More resources for using Twitter in the classroom
Tomorrow's Professor Msg.#984 Learning in 140 - Character Bites
http://cgi.stanford.edu/~dept-ctl/cgi-bin/tomprof/posting.php
Once widely dismissed as an instrument of vanity, Twitter is now showing up in serious places. Its citizen-journalistic role after last June's Iranian election was much celebrated; in May, a NASA astronaut became the first to tweet from space ("From orbit: Launch was awesome!!"). Bit by bit, Twitter is finding a role in education.