Twitter

Twitter is much maligned however over the last couple of years it has become the professional development tool of choice for an increasing number of teachers. Why Twitter? media type="youtube" key="ZYz9M70KVR0" height="279" width="448" align="center" Kathy Shrock offers all manner of advice about using Twitter in her [|Twittercure presentation] If you are going to use Twitter then you should choose a Twitter Client, (a program that makes reading and organising tweets easier than using the web based Twitter). [|Tweetdeck] works well on all computers and iPods and iPhones but is not so good on iPads, For iPads [|Hootsuite] works quite well. To get started with Tweetdeck check out Twitter 102 for educators media type="youtube" key="P8nCl_Db-QI" height="279" width="448" align="center" To get started with selecting who to follow in Twitter here is a list of some [|Victorian DEECD teachers who are on Twitter]