Should Teachers Tweet?

The Chronicle of Higher Education asks: “Does anyone out there Tweet with their students? If so, how have you found it to be useful?”

It’s nice to see so many correctly spelled words in a comments field. They’re not all perfect, but at least they’re trying — they can still be snotty, though:

In other news, air has been declared good to breathe. As a trained instructional technology professional, I’m highly skeptical about Twitter. The fact is, appropriate uses of new technology are always challenging to faculty and — more often than not — technology is misused rather than properly used in the classroom.

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