Paper.li :an outstanding web2.0 tool for educative twitters

This is a follow up post to Improve Twitter in Education . In my previous post , I have talked about the Advanced Search Functionality in Twitter and how it helps users to narrow down their search queries and find the exact tweets they are looking for .If you haven’t read it yet then snatch a quick look at A Great Functionality to Improve Twitter in Education .
In today’s post I will be talking about another tool that is just as important as Twitter Advanced Search. Paper.li is a web 2.0 application that “ organizes links shared on twitter into an easy to read newspaper style format . Newspapers can be created for any twitter user, list or # tag

Some features of Paper.li

Here is a set of features that Paper.li provides :

• It extracts all tweets that include urls
• It extracts all the content contained in these tweets such as text , blog posts , articles , photos , and videos.
• It analyzes the extracted text for topic
• It also surfaces the day’s most relevant articles
• It constructs a newspaper front page using the filtered articles , photos and videos.
• It also allows its users to embed your Paper in a blog or a site.

All of these features have been taken from Paper.li FAQ page .

How can I get started using Paper.li ?

First go to Paper.li main page and sign in with your twitter account . Once you are there , click on “create a newspaper” and choose from the options you have . You can create a paper based on :
            Your Twitter account



         A Twitter # tag



     Twitter list



Facebook paper



Custom paper


Once you created your paper , you can customize it by clicking on the “ settings” button.
You can see an example of the paper I have created

Application of Paper.li in Education

Teachers can use Paper.li to organize their tweets into neat and readable papers with magazine styles . They can make papers based on their course elements and give it to students to keep up with their teachers tweets.
Students can also use it to collect tweets of relevant interest to what they are studying . I would recommend creating papers based on hashtags for students, in this way teachers will make sure students are reading the targeted tweets and not whatever.
That’s it about Paper.li :an outstanding web2.0 tool for educative twitters

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A great functionality to improve twitter in education

I know many of you read several tweets everyday . Some even have problems in sifting through the large bulk of tweets they get. This is what I concluded from reading all the emails I received from many persons asking me for help with different twitter options .So I decided to have recourse to my “ magic key “ which is web2.0 to find solutions. The following are two important tools that will make your twitter experience much more easier and enjoyable.

1- Twitter Advance Search

Twitter has become such a very important element in our life that we ca not imagine internet without it. We use Twitter to keep up with interesting news and people we care about, but what if we want to search, filter and interact with the flooding volumes of news and information being transmitted to Twitter every second ?
You will definitely need a powerful search application to do the job .Twitter Advanced Search is your answer . It will help you filter all the real-time information coursing through twitter.
Some features of Twitter Advanced Search
Twitter Advanced Search has several features that will narrow down your search to the exact query you are looking for in tweets. Among these features we can site :
                                   Search for tweets by topic

                         Search for tweets of specific people



                            Search for tweets by city



                         Search for tweets by dates

                         Search for tweets by attitudes



                        Search for tweets containing links


Watch this tutorial video to learn more

twitteradvanced search tutorial

I hope you would try this twitter functionality with your students .You will need to familiarize them with the different options it has and give them an example of how it works and get them going . I am quite sure they will find it very useful .

2- Paper.li

This is a very important tool that you can use to organize your tweets into a magazine like front page ,Learn more in Paper.li : On Outstanding Web2.0 Tool for Educative Twitters

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