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Regarding Writing for Digital Media, the use of hashtags is crucial to the connections of groups or like-minded students who wish to relate their thoughts to others. Because writing on Twitter must be brief, hashtags assist in quickly [http://twitter.pbworks.com/w/page/1779812/Hashtags “summing up”] what has been shared in the Tweet. Specifically, because of hashtags, the engagement within a [http://georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/2609 classroom] can be much more successful, as students communicate ideas for the course to their peers and professors.
Additional sites that are helpful to students include:
* [https://twitter.com/students Creative Resource]
* [http://edudemic.com/2012/09/twitter-hashtags-now/ Educational Twitter Hashtags]
* [http://www.insidehighered.com/twitter_directory Twitter Directory for Higher Education] and
* [https://twitter.com/USATODAYcollege USA Today College on Twitter]


==Things to Know About Hashtags==
==Things to Know About Hashtags==
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