Twitter

Twitter is a popular web site designed to allow people to send updates about themselves to 'followers'. These status updates can be about anything however it is important to remember that many people are able to access your 'tweets' so some things may be inappropriate to include in your status updates. Twitter has the ability to be a great discussion tool, although for teachers to regulate student use of twitter would be almost impossible so students would need to understand the rules and consequences when using twitter. I would only use twitter in my classroom as a communication tool between teacher and parents, perhaps instead of newsletters.