Twitter is a social network used by millions of people in order to communicate. There are many other uses for Twitter besides communication including: voicing opinions, promoting businesses, and even keeping up with celebrity gossip. It allows you to create personal messages or updates; these posts can be viewed by the public. However, you may choose to change the settings to only allow a select group of people to view your messages and/or updates; these people are called your followers. Twitter allows you to send these messages via computer and phone.
Twitter can also be a valuable resource in the classroom, especially for the high school classroom since many students probably already possess a Twitter account or are familiar with the technology. Students could communicate with the teacher and with each other.
Delicious is a social bookmarking website. It allows people to mark bookmarks online so that they can be accessed from any computer. Delicious also lets users share their bookmarks so that anyone can see them. Each bookmark has a tag which allows users to easily sort through their bookmarks.
Delicious is a great website to use in the classroom especially for class projects. It allows you to save bookmarks anywhere and anytime. Students can begin working on a project at school and continue it at home. Delicious also allows students to share websites and information easily. It is a great resource to help students work on group projects and collaborate with peers outside of the actual classroom.
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