Twitter in the classroom

When (If) many people think about Twitter, they often think that it is primarily used to let others know what you ate for breakfast or what you're doing at any given time. But Twitter is much more than that.

Faculty at many universities use Twitter to:

• Have their students answer questions via Twitter rather than raising their hands.
• Send questions and input to Twitter during class time as a way to determine what students are having difficulty understanding
• Continue class discussions after the class has ended

You can see many other interesting ways that faculty are using Twitter here and here.

How else might faculty use Twitter in their courses?