Twitter in the Classroom?

In our TPTE 486 class, we are trying to incorporate using twitter and making connections for our future as educators. After going through all of the effort to find fellow teachers on twitter, I feel more twitter savvy and would like to us this knowledge for my future classroom. The only problem I have is I want to be an elementary teacher, so using twitter seems less applicable than for teachers who have older students. I found a website that gave me some ideas on how to appropriately use Twitter for younger students.

Here are some of the ideas...

1. Using www.twitterfall.com
Type in a keyword ("communism", "appeasement", "poverty")
Then watch the results come pouring in using twitterfall!

This could be a fun way for students to apply what they are talking about in social studies and can see what are are saying on that topic.

2. Collaborating a story
First...Choose your theme
(example) Genre - Fairy Tale, Sports Story, Adventure etc.
Give it a standard story opener and tweet this to your network
Ask network to continue the story in tweets, collaborating with the previous tweets and following them via www.twitterfall.com or a #tag
Then...students follow via twitterfall,choose the best ones and edit them into a coherent story
Great for editing skills, story structure etc.

This could be a fun way to encourage students to write (or type) and use sequences skills to create a fun story. This way kids can feel creative, yet they must say what they want to say in 140 characters. This calls for precise creative writing.

3. Let the parents be informed
Set up a new Twitter account for your class - you will possibly want to 'protect' your updates. Invite parents to 'follow' you, and they can see what the class are up to from any computer (home, work, Internet cafe...) at any time of the day or night. Parents could even tweet back if they desire.

This could be an easy way for parents to see first hand what is going on in the classroom. This is nice because it would not be a required activity, so if a family does not have a computer, this exercise is still appropriate.

Well these were some of the ideas that stuck out the most. If want to know more, the link is here
The only hesitations I have is that I have not used twitterfall. I would have to familiarize myself with that program before I implemented it with my classroom.