Benefits of Twitter for College students
Twitter that has evolved as a very powerful media tool for communication in recent times has different implications for the person it is using. Each person, whether he is a professional, artist, amateur, student, housewife or any other guy is using Twitter in its unique manner to derive better result out of it. Certainly, college is a place that definitely would have different mannerism for the student as well teachers that are heart and soul of a school. As to make communication at college free flowing among students learning on Twitter keeps on providing with new offerings and some of the amazing ways to get in contact with each other are as following:
- Direct tweet provides a unique method for Professors and students to get into contact with each other without any need to share phone numbers with each other.
- Class Twitter group make it very easy to get together and discuss things with ease between teachers and students, especially, during any special session like seminar.
- Students assigned on a project after deploying application like Tweetworks can collaborate with each other while working together.
- Twitter can work as a perfect platform for professors to send reminder to the students about upcoming tests, project due dates, or sharing any important news.
- On Twitter students can indulge into brain storming sessions on topic of whether educational importance or irrelevance
- Using applications like PollDaddy an opinion poll or feedback campaign can be organized between students
- Both teachers as well student can share websites of importance among them.
- Twitter in the classroom provides better opportunity to learn as two to three tweets keeps arriving daily in the classroom.
- More twitter can help students by offering them by forming twitter based projects.
- Twitter can be very well versed method for literature students as they can practice developing stories tweeted within 140 characters.
- Twitter can be of great help for political science students as they can tweet with politicians reflecting their view and opinions.
- Twitter can be great method to learn foreign language while tweeting with a native speaker of the language.
- A student can follow if possible a professor of his liking and area of his interest on twitter
- Learning from a number of resources like @Reuters, @CNNMoney you can follow stories to bring you better results.
- Using twiggit that combines Twitter and Digg to search news articles close to topic of their interests and subject.
Various Tools that a student can use on Twitter
- Twhirl a desktop client that can manage URL shortening, new message notifications, image posting, and more on Twitter.
- QuoteURL can sum up a Twitter project by keeping different Tweets unanimously on a single page
- TwitPic can help a student to share his photos on Twitter for sharing visuals in class projects.
- Tweetree can keep all your conversations together at a place
- bit.ly can shorten URLs to provide fewer characters while sharing web links with this tool.
- TwitterNotes can be used for keeping private notes among your Tweets.
- TweetScan provides a student with Tweets e-mailed on the basis of keyword selected by him.
- TweetDeck helps a student to manage tweets by grouping them.
- TweetGrid provides a customized desktop to facilitate Twitter searches with this tool.
- TwitterFone lets a student to leave a voice message to be converted into a Tweet.
- Tweet Later provide facility to schedule tweets to be posted at appointed time.
- Locating People in Education Stream to be followed
- This section is especially for you, if you wish to help or seek help from professors, students and other associated people by following implied methods told to you:
- Twitter Grader not only provides your presence on Twitter but also helps listing of people from your area to be followed.
- Follow Fridays is known activity on Twitter which recommends others to follow to find professors and other academic opportunities.
- Tweetizen is tool that helps to search people on Twitter with common interests of yours.
- TwitterLocal helps to locate twitter users based on common geographic location same as you
- WeFollow let you to search others in this user powered Twitter directory and can search by hashtags.
- Twubble helps you to enrich your friend circle, especially with those who are anyway related to your school.
- Colleges & Universities Directory on Twitter helps you to connect with student as well as professors
- Twellow is the directory for professors to be added at.
Students about to graduate and to enter into professional life
- Twitter base and followers and following made at college helps a student to search for job and establish himself professionally after passing out from the college.
- A student can follow a target company with a twitter feed as to know about company and its work culture.
- Can search for job on Twitter.
- Can search job on Twitter based on keyword and geographic location
- TweetMyJobs job search tool help employers as well as job seekers to come in contact with each other.



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