Have you heard about Twitter? I know it has been around a bit but I've never been big on talking or texting so I haven't used it. Frankly, I've never been a phone person at all. Some of us are- some of us aren't.
However, I have been following David Free and David Lee King who have developed a great presentation on Twitter for the BIGWIG Social Software Showcase. I'll let you check out their presentation by clicking here and here. Once I viewed their videos on Twitter and listened to how its being used for creative writing assignments, I can see that Twitter is an interesting web 2.0 tool.
I've spoken to a student and teacher who are using Twitter. You'll see the student's blog on Twitter posted on the Chattanooga State Library/ Information Commons webpage in the near future. We have a teacher using Twitter now.
Actually, Mr. Teems' creative writing students are using it too. Students are creating short creative writing assignments defined by the 140 character limitation set in individual Twitter post. Twitter assignments are short ongoing journal entrees that give the writing style a diary/memoir feeling.
After you check out the presentations linked above- you can search YouTube for David Free's "Intro to Twitter" which showcases more of Twitter's bells and whistles. I may not be a Twitter groupie yet, but I do look forward to reading more about it.
