Forget E-Mail: New Messaging Service Has Students and Professors Atwitter.

The article discusses the text messaging system Twitter and its usage at universities. The service allows students and professors to send short notes to cellphones and computers, a process called microblogging. It also allows messages to be posted for multiple users. Media professor David Parry suggested that the message service created a greater sense of community in the classroom and allows teachers to communicate with students. The educational technology company Blackboard has acquired the messaging company NTI Group to provide a similar messaging system to customers. Instructional technologist Laura J. Little notes that Twitter can make communication between teachers more efficient.