Teaching+With+Twitter+(Research+Report+1)

__**Chirping about Twitter**__ This article is about how twitter is being used as a tool in the classroom and outside for education. Some teachers are still unsure about it while others embrace it. The author's purpose of this article was to provide pros and cons as to whether or not twitter would be a good tool for educators to use. The author's point of view in the article is in favor of twitter but still notes that there are some protection issues to think about.

__**All A-Twitter About Education: Improving Our Schools in 140 Characters or Less**__ This article is about free twitter is as far as posting whatever you want and it is influencing the educational policies in schools by people addressing certain issues using twitter as a medium. The author;s purpose of this article was to show how people get involved in the educational community and how they can change things by using social media networks like Twitter. The author sees this as empowering to educators and the community because it provides people a change to have a voice and based on your internet presence your voice can speak volumes that were unimaginable 10-20 years ago.

Anonymous,. Literature + twitter = twitterature. (2009, October). //Scholastic Scope.58(4),// 5. Retrieved 14, 2011, from ProQuest Education Education Journals. http://proquest.umi.com.libproxy.temple.edu/pqdlink?did=1461655301&Fmt=2&rqt=309&cfc=1 -I don't think this could be useful because it doesn't contain enough information for me to go into detail about my project.

Miners, Z.. (2010, August). Twitter goes to college. //U.S. News & World Report,// 1. Retrieved November 15, 2011 from ABI/INFORM Global. http://www.usnews.com/education/articles/2010/08/16/twitter-goes-to-college- -This article is about the use of twitter in universities and explains why educators have turned to twitter to use inside or outside of the classroom/lecture hall. This information is crucial for my project.

Petrilli, Michael J. "All A-Twitter about education: improving our schools in 140 characters or less." // Education Next // 11.4 (2011): 90+. // Academic OneFile //. Web. 15 Nov. 2011. http://go.galegroup.com.libproxy.temple.edu/ps/i.do?action=interpret&id=GALE%7CA207189329&v=2.1&u=temple_main&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w&authCount=1 -This can be useful because it provides statistical information about educators and twitter use and how it provide an incentive for the educators as well.

Ritchie, M.. (2009, April) Chirping about twitter. //The Times Educational Supplement : TES,(4836),// O18. Retrieved November 15, 2011, from ProQuest Education Journals. http://proquest.umi.com.libproxy.temple.edu/pqdlink?vinst=PROD&fmt=3&startpage=-1&vname=PQD&RQT=309&did=1724044801&scaling=FULL&vtype=PQD&rqt=309&TS=1321409220&clientId=8673 -This article will be very useful because it contains different perspectives from teachers and professors about the use of twitter in education and how it can influence the future of the classroom for better or worse.

Skiba, D.. (2008). Nursing education 2.0: Twitter & tweets. //Nursing Education Perspectives, 29(2),// 110-112. Retrieved November 14, 2011, from ProQuest Education Journals. http://proquest.umi.com.libproxy.temple.edu/pqdlink?vinst=PROD&fmt=3&startpage=-1&vname=PQD&RQT=309&did=1461655301&scaling=FULL&vtype=PQD&rqt=309&cfc=1&TS=1321409066&clientId=8673 -This can be very useful because the article is about Twitter being used in a specific type of education which will provide detailed info for me to dig deeper in the topic.

Twitter in higher education: More than 30 percent of faculty say they tweet. // Science Letter // 8 Sept. 2009: 3160. // Academic OneFile //. Web. 15 Nov. 2011. http://go.galegroup.com.libproxy.temple.edu/ps/i.do?action=interpret&id=GALE%7CA207189329&v=2.1&u=temple_main&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w&authCount=1 -This maybe useful because of the statistics it contains.

Young, J.. (2010, March). TEACHING WITH TWITTER. //The Education Digest, 75(7),// 9-12. Retrieved November 3, 2011, from ProQuest Education Journals. http://proquest.umi.com.libproxy.temple.edu/pqdlink?vinst=PROD&fmt=3&startpage=-1&vname=PQD&RQT=309&did=1980047021&scaling=FULL&vtype=PQD&rqt=309&TS=1321409281&clientId=8673 -This article will be of great use for my project because it provides the pros and cons of twitter and explains who it can protect and empower in the classroom.