DESCRIPTION
How Twitter can actually be USEFUL to faculty, students, librarians in higher ed - not merely a trivial distraction.
How to guide students to shift from distracting, trivial uses of Twitter toward constructive, educational uses.
Will include demos/uses of Twitter as a research topic aggregator using Tweetbot, HootSuite, Evernote, and Flipboard.
Will also include how to find information to tweet using Topsy and Zite
A little bit about Jeff. Jeffrey Morrison is the Director of Technology for Trinity School in Atlanta, Georgia. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Educational Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Adjunct Professor in the Bagwell College of Education Instructional Technology Graduate Studies Program, Kennesaw State University.
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