Twitter in the calssroom

I honestly had no idea about what twitter is before this class. But now i realize that many people not only know about it but are also using it as a platform for quick communication related to any area of their interest.
I have read many articles on how twitter can be useful for the teachers and really liked "Potential Uses of Twitter in Teacher Education Courses" by Bud Talbort.This article suggests many ways twitter can be used for better teaching and learning process.
I like the idea of "Continuing conversations" from the very same article.It says that our class discussionbs are mostly limited by the time factor. Twitter provides us the platform to continue discussions even after the class.
In my view this would also give confidence to those students to share their opinion who find very less opportunity in the class to speak or who are shy to speak in the class.At the same blog, the students can give their feedback about the course and its contents, how useful they are and what improvemnts can be made in the course. The teacher by reading this kind of feed back can improve the methods of teaching.
Another article "Twitter for Academia" from AcademHack gives us the use of twitter to asign group writing assignments to the students. I really am planning to use this idea, students can brainstorm on the assigned topic while being on distance.

About.com English as a Second Language

I have found very intersting website for ESL/EFL teachers and that is http://esl.about.com/.
My God! This website provides number of activities, quizzes, lesson plans, articles etc. on grammmar, reading, writing, listening and speaking, business English. I have simply fallen in love with this website.The best thing is that if we get registered to this website(which is absolutely free), it send us the latest stuff(all mentioned above) regulary, which I have started to receive.

Another good thing about this site is that it has presents all material according to the various level of profeiciency,(beginner, intermediat and advanced level).

I think all ESL teachers must visit this website and add this as their favourite feed.