Thing 22: Social Networking in Education? You Bet!
As with so many of the Web 2.0 vehicles, Classroom 2.0 offers possibilities for peer to peer, teacher/student and other forms of collaboration. Again, that is the point. However, once the forum category has been selected, the ability to sort these categories into further sub- categories is limited to three options: “Latest Activity,” “Newest Discussions, ” and ” Most Popular.” Nonetheless, once I had chosen “Book Discussions” from the category page, I did find several discussions to be of interest to me. In fact, the discussion, “Book Recommendations for Gifted Readers” prompted me to add several titles to my online wish list on Titlewave. I did find the tag options to be a good way to search for specific types of forums. I was surprised to learn that there was no tag for “books.”
Once the demands of the 23 Things course have been met, I hope to join discussions (I know I should be doing that now.) or create my own. Maybe I’ll even create my own social network through Ning. Yeah, maybe…
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