Twitter is a compromise between synchronous and asynchronous communication. It is not quite a chat and not quite a message board (aka., forum).
The real power of Twitter is that it allows you to...wait for it...LISTEN. It is a listening device. A pulse check of what is current and immediate. For educators, we know the almighty power of listening. It is the basic skill we beg our students to master.
This compromise between listening and acting is the essence of both life and social skills that we, as educators, ask of our learners. Twitter gives us a chance to practice this balance, ourselves. It helps us to understand, at a deeper level, what we are asking of our students.
Twitter allows us to efficiently opt-in and converse where we can contribute, and to opt-out and ponder the utterances from whence we can learn.
Twitter is a social technology for all teachers. Sign-up and give me a tweet @InstructorG .
He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth. - Kahlil Gibran
Stay tuned for additional posts about Twitter and its relevance as a "technology for all teachers".