read Ch. 6 of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts (pp. 85-100); post a reflection to your reflective learning blog:
How does this reading impact your thinking about technology's role in teaching and learning?
What will you do differently as a future teacher as a direct result of this new thinking?
In today’s technological world, everything is based on socialization and collaboration. All of this collaboration allows us to connect to more information, teachers, and learning. Students can connect with other students to make sense of the bigger picture and how they fit into it. Twitter is a common Read/Write Web tool that has many opportunities to provide learning experiences. Twitter is called a microblog. It seems that it takes a considerable amount of work to really get twitter to work for you. It appears easy to look at other peoples “tweets”, but not the easiest to get people to follow your tweets. I think that Twitter and cell phone use will need to come a long way before they can team up in the classroom.
Delicious.com is a social bookmaking site. This site has two major components. First, it helps you create an organized online collection of website resources. This is awesome because it is online, meaning that if your computer crashes you don’t lose all of your information that you have worked hard to save up. Second, as I mentioned before, it is collaborative! You are able to link up with others who have the same interests and research common topics. This greatly increases the library at your fingertips. I think that it is cool because if it wasn’t interesting, important, or useful it wouldn’t have been bookmarked in the first place. I am already using delicious and can’t wait to tap that resource once I begin to teach. It could be very helpful for students to begin to use because while moving from computer to computer for different activities, they could access their bookmarks to help them.
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