Sunday, October 9, 2011

The Social Web

Check you blog, update your wiki, don't forget to check e-mail and let's add Twitter.  Sound like a busy night.  I can understand how blogging and wikis can be implemented in the classroom. I'm not so sure about Twitter.   I also have to ask, do we really want cell phones in our classroom?  At 146 characters per tweet I'm not convinced that I'm going to get a lot of bang for my buck.  But I am afraid that it might blow up.  Who of us has not seen a video of a teacher losing control on youtube?  Twitter.  Maybe at the college level, but not in a middle school.

However,  I am a fan of social bookmarking services.   It''s a place to collect your favorite sites.  If your computer crashes you still can acess your favorites from another site.  I can see having my students set up a diigo for Spanish colleting cultural sites as well as vocabulary and grammar.  As for me, I'm already hooked on Shelfari.  Just check it out and you'll see why.

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