Twitter is a great place to find information about organizations that could become community partners for service learning projects. It's a great place to discover a need for service learning as well.
Twitter is a great communication tool to use with parents. A Twitter account can be activated to share daily information with parents about the events and homework of the day. I think this is a simple way to communicate with the folks who have access.
The article "Twenty-nine Interesting Ways to use Twitter in the Classroom" gave some astounding ideas. English/Written Language is a difficult subject to get students motivated about. I love the clever assessment idea involving 140 characters or less to write a Twitter story. The ideas for asking for location of other Twitterers to examine the Earth using Google Earth seems simple enough, if others Tweet back. I Tweeted about a field trip to Madison and asked for information to share about rocks and mineral with my class. I didn't receive a response. I was provoked to try, and I realize they could be limiting topics.
I think the idea of Twitter for educational use could be valuable with monitoring. It is a tool that could be easily abused. Students can text quickly, I'm sure Tweeting could be lightning fast!
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One thing I found was that until you had lots of followers on Twitter, you didn't get many responses, even thought it can be searched by keyword. If you want to use it, you really have to build a community first. That would be pretty easy with parents, but harder with other professionals.
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