1. Twitter as a collaboration tool

2. Prepared by: - Anastasia Yurchenko - Chechuy Yana - Chechuy Yana

3. Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS, or mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco and has more than 25 offices around the world.

4. Advantages: - Twitter is massive. - Every tweet goes to your followers. - Tweets are easy to create. - You can get to the point.

5. Disadvantages - Twitter is busy. - Twitter is not ideal for visual content. - You are limited to 140 characters. - Not everyone can advertise.

6. Activity This task was created for group of Ukrainian students from Black Sea State University and for group of students from the partner university in Canada. The task is to learn some aspects of English by distance studying between two universities and to share teacher’s skill in doing it. The main part of this project is preparing and posting the essay on twitter about using internet devices and tools in studying English.

7. Topics for essays — creating cartoons — creating own survey — publishing blogs — creating free workspaces

8. Description of the activity Students level — 5th year Content area — Ukraine and Canada Objective of the activity — to develope writing and creative skills of students, to communicate with representatives of other country and to comment the works of each other. Duration — 1 class. Outcome/result of the activity — students of both countries should create and post their essays on twitter and comment them.

9. Thank you for attention!