"All roads now point to a Web where little is done in isolation and all things are collaborative and social in nature." There are so many ways to connect and socialize online. Twitter is a ttool that was introduced in 2006 and it allows mini-blogging. I personally do not have a Twitter account because I think other socialization networks provide what Twitter has to offer and more. I personally would not use Twitter in my classroom because if my students have blogs and use wikis, Twitter is just an unnecessary piece of technology. The ways Twitter can be used as stated in the book are: to communicate with parents, daily notices, links to student work, relevent articles for parents. If a blog is used in my classroom Twitter does not need to be used because all these things and more can be done in a blog. As far as social bookmarking is concerned I am a fan of the Delicious tool. It provides teachers with a spot to keep all the sites we may forget about and look at other educators accounts in order to see what sites they found useful. I find social bookmarking more of a tool for teachers rather than students. I may consider it if I had an older elementary aged group, but for the younger grades I feel as though having a classroom blog is enough work. The Diigo website seems to have more add ons to use than the Delicious site when watching the video on Diigo.com, but Delicious seems to be easier to operate. I’m glad we are using Delicious! I’m glad to be learning more about all these different types of technology in class because on my own I doubt that I would have ever know what a social bookmarking site was. I appreciate all the knowledge about different technology tools, but in all honesty there is no way that I am going to use all of these in my classroom. It would be much too hard to keep up with everything and involve the students as well.
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