The complete guide to Twitter’s language and acronyms

A Great overview of Twitter and the language used in the 140 character posts.

The beauty and challenge of Twitter is stuffing your most sophisticated thoughts and feelings into a measly 140 characters (or less). Unfortunately, our traditional methods of communication have proven to be a poor training ground for micro-messaging, and even the most savvy platform users have sighed in exasperation as those bright red negative character signs mock our basic intelligence. But, perhaps even worse, no good tweet is ever going to be 140 characters because it’s impossible to share, respond or reference a tweet that’s already at it’s max. If you want to make a big statement with a small message, you have to trim the fat.

View the whole article here: http://tnw.to/m4O7

Professional Development News # 2.02

Professional Development News // Volume 2 Issue 2

An e-newsletter from the Educational Technology Committee, Charter Oak Unified School District

In this issue:

1. Introduction to Social Media (Harvard)

2. Why Educators Should Join Twitter

3. A beginning guide to Twitter (or How to get info from Twitter without an account)

4. An inspiring Grade 4 Math lesson.

5. Student Created Digital Citizenship Web site

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