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The articles discuss how Twitter is a tool that can connect people of interest together. The authors explain how twitter can be used professionally enabling groups of people to share information together. Furthermore, understanding the language of hash tags users allow people to see what they are posting. Professional hash tags are be created to a specific group of interest to use. Twitter is an ever expanding community keeping people together through their tweets.
1.) How can Twitter be use in a classroom?
Twitter is a way to blog information. In a classroom students are often expected to answer questions to online material. Twitter can be used in a classroom for students to follow each other, including the teacher, and discuss the topic at hand. In addition using #hash tags are great ways to show other people what you're students are learning, or even a way of organizing the class.
2.) Why is it important to understand twitter lingo?
Twitter has developed its own lingo that is important to the topic being tweeted. When a person tweets something about education, the best way to share the tweet with other people in education is with hash tag words like education, k-12, or varies school subjects. This idea can be taken even further by creating a group name hash tag. This idea can be used in classrooms for students have to blog ideas for the class. Twitter is a great way to stay connected with others, and when hash tags are used it brings people of interest even closer.
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