Twitter+and+Posterous

**Twitter.com** Access: computer and mobile To post short messages (no more than 140 characters) Posts allow replies. Can post pictures

**Posterous.com** Access: computer and mobile “Posterous is the dead simple way to post everything online using email” Similar to a blog, but much easier to use. Can add all types of files. Autopost to automatically send your posts to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, + Can post to Posterous via email, SMS, or the Web. Can add contributors so other people can upload to your Posterous site. Check out a service called GroupTweet.com which many classrooms are using on a daily basis to encourage and foster group discussion via Twitter.

**Two examples that uses Twitter for class discussions:**  <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|http://twitter.com/#] !/vis1890s <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|http://twitter.com/#] !/2450fall2010

<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“Tweeting Students Earn Higher Grades Than Others in Classroom Experiment” <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">November 12, 2010, 5:02 pm At The Chronicle <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">By <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Paige Chapman] <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/tweeting-students-earn-higher-grades-than-others-in-classroom-experiment/28172?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en