The professional use of microblogging still eludes me, though I enjoy it's social aspects. I stay in 'contact' with several people on Facebook that I would not have any contact with otherwise. I do subscribe to MyPearsonTraining initially to check if there were others out there who tried a specific management technique with Connected Math. I didn't get what I needed. I do find the tweets they send out interesting, but none have proven practical yet.
I have already mentioned the wiki and blogs I use in my class and I am looking forward to being available to my students via a Tokbox link on our wiki tomorrow. I really like using the pbworks wiki site I have. There are several resources, including a digital copy of textbook pages, collaborative pages for each investigative group, and a calendar of learning tasks. I just figured out how to create a new header for my Math Challenge blog using Glogster.
I think that I am the only one in the Unites States that does not have a facebook account. For some reason if I want someone to know something I just pick up the phone and call them. Two weeks ago was my birthday. I received more text messages then phone calls. Kinda depressing. Also, e cards are not the same. What is this world coming to. Why do we have a need to be so un-personal?
ReplyDeleteI agree with your comments on microblogging, how are students using facebook going to learn, they will be too distracted looking at their friends pictures from last night!!
ReplyDeleteI like the concept of using Tokbox in my class as well. I am going to try and send emails using this because I know our students are more of a virtual learner. The only thing I don't like is typing in each students email to send a message. Have you found a way around this??? Also I am worried about students taking the video and doing something stupid with it like posting it on YouTube.
Like Nick, I too have to totally agree with you on the lack of educational value in Facebook or other microblogging sites. I, for the life of me, can't figure out how this would be educational at all. On another note, however, I am currently in the process of putting together my own blog, so if you have any tips for creating it, I would love to hear them. I am going to steal your tokbox idea though and make sure that I put that into there as I think that is a great idea.
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