1. Social Media in Education Twitter: Service that allows users to upgrade what they’re doing in messages of 140 characters, so that everyone following them can see it.
2. Pros and Cons of integrating twitter in everyday lessons: Teachers can share ideas, work and blog post with students, as well as students can share ideas among themselves. Real time interaction Teacher can inform students about events Information is available easy and quickly Teachers can share videos and articles related to subject discuss in classroom Good tool to remind students due dates and assignments Allows class participation to all students in overcrowded groups Allow students to keep the conversation outside classrooms Overcomes shyness Motivates students no cost Research tool
3. Cons: There is no real way to censor material teachers may not want their students to access. Could be distracting Private life of teachers can be disruptive Time consuming Can be annoying when people Tweet too personal of information Addiction to it Destroys conversations Some schools deny access to this site Noise Makes conversations public
4. Twitter tools: Twitter base services: follow latest trends. Twitter clients: allows you to view your twitter feeds and send updates.
5. Example of Twitter Clients: TweetDeck Filter tweets using the tweet text, username, source or timeframe.
