Using Twitter in the classroom

One teacher at the University of Texas at Dallas has been utilizing Twitter in his teaching, according to an article in Read Write Web.

Rankin uses a weekly hashtag to organize comments, questions and feedback posted by students to Twitter during class. Some of the students have downloaded Tweetdeck to their computers, others post by SMS or by writing questions on a piece of paper. Rankin then projects a giant image of live Tweets in the front of the class for discussion and suggests that students refer back to the messages later when studying.

People are using Twitter for a number of different applications, many that the founders of Twitter surely never anticipated.