‘Twitter’ Archive

The Rise of Twitter, Academic Unconferences, and announcing THATCamp 2009 February 12, 2009 1 Comment

In late January, I began my Saturday morning with what has become a simple weekend ritual of sorts. Roll out of bed. Turn on the coffee maker. And log on to Twitter to read what my followers are discussing.
As it turned out, all my internet friends were busy working on a new [...]

Using Twitter and Dashcode to build a Dashboard Widget July 27, 2008 No Comments

Mac users should be aware of dashboard widgets, which are small and contained applications that are displayed on a single screen to allow you to see a lot of useful data at once.  For example, Apple computers ship with built in weather, calendar, and calculator widgets — and there are other widgets for sports scores [...]

Twitter for Educators March 5, 2008 No Comments

Following up a blog post by Tom Scheinfeldt on using Twitter as an outreach tool, I recently came across a service under development called Edmodo. Billing itself as “Twitter for teachers and students,” Edmodo is in alpha testing as a social educational portal, including a classroom-calendaring feature. Based upon the screen capture of [...]