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Since the last post I’ve continued to messing around with twitter<\/a>.
My facebook and twitter script has stopped working, due I think to changes on facebook, but I’ve become more interested in twitter<\/a>. It is not much use in school, because it is blocked in Glasgow primaries, but it has been interesting watching the tweets spring up when I am at home. I’ve installed Twitterrific<\/a> a sweet, free, desktop app, to view and post to twitter. I am beginning see the use for firing off quick informal questions but even more interesting are some mashups.<\/p>\n

The most educational of these is twitterlearn :: micro language-learning from the Radio Lingua Network<\/a>. Basically you can follow learnitalian on Twitter<\/a>, it will give you tweets of short phrases to translate into italian and a link to provide the answer in a blog post. So in the twitter feed you see: <\/p>\n

Translate into Italian: “I’ve already visited Rome” http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2osa6g<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Clicking on the link will take you to the answer<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"twittermap\"<\/a> <\/p>\n

The nice thing about twitterlearn is that it uses another service twitterfeed.com<\/a> which posts RSS to twitter automatically. so the questions are produced automatically from the blog posts that combine questions and answers.<\/p>\n

I’ve used twitterfeed.com<\/a> to post this blog to my Twitter<\/a> and created a new twitter account for scotedublogs.org.uk <\/a>: ScotEdublogs on twitter<\/a>, if you follow the ScotEdublogs tweets you will know when new posts arrive at SEB. (there is one for teachmeet07<\/a> too).<\/p>\n

I’ve also looked at twittermap<\/a> which allows you to set your location in a tweet and places you on a google map, via the google maps api. This is connect to twittervision<\/a> which show tweets poping up all over the place and provides pages for users showing where they are: twittervision: johnjohnston<\/a><\/p>\n

I am still unsure where twitter would fit into a primary pupil’s learning but there are lots of interesting things being done with twitter now.<\/p>\n

twitter<\/a> mashup<\/a> rss<\/a> teachmeet07<\/a>