Our classrooms are not limited to the four walls of the physical building we teach in but can encompass the entire of the planet. Technology, and much of it is free, has enabled us to push back the classroom walls and stretch our virtual arms across the globe to shake hands with classrooms and students [...]
There’s Facebook, facebook and more facebook. Between the movie about facebook – The social Network – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Network and times man of the year http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2036683,00.html Facebook and its Developer/creator Mark Zuckerberg are getting huge publicity. Not that it really needs it with over 1/2 a billion people on the network – http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics I love facebook and [...]
So who is more social on social networks? Males or females? My first guess would have been a degree of equality, but it appears that as a male I am in the minority of social networks. (Source: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/who-rules-the-social-web/)
Social networks provide huge opportunities for education but can potentially have devasting consequences as well. As classroom teachers we have a set of processes we use to keep ourselves and our students safe. We keep our conversations appropriate. You can not divorce yourself from your students lives but you do keep a respectful distance. We [...]
