In a new article from Chronicle.com, Jeffrey Young introduces 10 college administrators - and avid twitterers - who are quickly changing the world of higher education one "tweet" at a time.For those of you who are unfamiliar with it, Twitter is a social networking tool - much like Facebook - except instead of "friends" you collect "followers" and instead of posting "status updates" you "tweet."
Twitter is free to join and easy to use; most people just post what they had for breakfast and their agenda for the day, but several administrators from the world's biggest and best universities are using Twitter for educational purposes. Professors and staff members from the University of California, NYU, Fordham University, the University of Texas are using Twitter; even the President of Ohio State University is tweeting.
Check out the article at http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i31/31a01001.htm, and sign up for a Twitter account at http://twitter.com/.
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