This new video by CommonCraft explains how Twitter search creates new opportunities for business feedback, tracking news in real time and discovering trends. As a follow-up to Twitter in Plain English, it further illustrates the power of this microblogging technology in bringing people together in new ways.
How might Twitter search be useful for an educational activity? Leave a comment with your ideas!
Google Reader is a fabulous free tool for subscribing to and reading any RSS content. I personally subscribe to each student’s blog in my Google Reader account so that I don’t need to manually visit each blog to view the latest contributions. You should subscribe to my blog as well as the blogs of all the other students in our course.
If you’ve never heard of Google Reader before, watch this brief video that explains Google Reader in Plain English.
Wondering what exactly a blog is? Watch this 3 minute video that explains Blogs in Plain English
The power of blogging can be found in the ability to easily syndicate and subscribe to content through the wonderful technology called “RSS”. Watch this 3 minute video that explains what RSS is and why you should use a RSS reader to read blogs.
This new video by CommonCraft explains how Twitter search creates new opportunities for business feedback, tracking news in real time and discovering trends. As a follow-up to Twitter in Plain English, it further illustrates the power of this microblogging technology in bringing people together in new ways.
How might Twitter search be useful for an educational activity? Leave a comment with your ideas!