These are 3rd party Twitter applications that are useful for teaching and learning. Currently lists over 180 Twitter apps.
Link here.
Thanks to Shane M. for the tip.
I am holiday-ing in eastern Canada trying hard to outrun the rain and thus, the posts are less frequent. Strange though, it seems the less I post the more people read. Hmm..
Anyway, have a look at this graphic for the history of Twitter. Three years old y’know? (I can’t upload the graphic myself as I am using a PC (ughh) in a hotel lobby.)
A great post and activity from the music tech teacher here at my school. He just finished a project with the University of Vermont Music Department and his grade 7 Music Tech class. They used the web to join classrooms in real time to share ideas and concepts. The students in Vermont were responsible for putting together a lesson for the grade 7 students on writing and composing melodies. Full story here.
Other news:
The Best Ways to Discover Music Through Twitter
The main reason you should use Twitter to find music anyway is that once you find a like-minded fan on the network, you can follow their feed. If you keep doing this, your Twitter account will develop as a passive music discovery engine. Eventually you won’t need to do much — music will be delivered to you on the proverbial silver platter, courtesy of the thousands (or millions) of people who regularly post music to the network. Full story here.
Forget Twitter and micro-blogging, try nano-blogging with Flutter instead. Thanks once again to Shane M!
