The biggest winner of this battle? WordPress. The company doesn’t make it easy for users to embed either of these tweet aggregators on WordPress.com. What a shame!
I developed a Tweet paper, which, like my research, is unique in that it focuses on a specific type of person, namely, the pedagogical technologist. I’ve compiled my pedagogical technologist list carefully, so I’m pretty sure that the people on this list are, in fact, technologists and not teachers or administrators. As my papers suggests, there aren’t many of them, but these technologists can and do tweet prolifically! These men and women are an invaluable source of incidental evidence of how pedagogical technologists impact schools’ ways of working with and through technology.
Paper.li is a popular tweet aggregator. I also stumbled upon a rival, Scoop.it. Unfortunately, the latter is in such a beta stage that I can only use it if I find a magical token, which is proving more elusive than Wonka’s golden ticket, it seems. At this point, I can’t compare the two since I can’t use both. Nonetheless, I foresee myriad learning applications for both for this text type requires a data aggregation and curation skill that students in the 21st century will need.
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