I had always thought of twitter as something used by famous stars and athletes like Paris Hilton and Charlie Sheen, not something that regular people would use in their everyday lives. As I read about twitter, it seemed like a great way to stay in touch with family and friends, especially people who have family overseas and across the country. I did not really get the educational use for twitter at all. Once I read the sentence about twitter being a bit too "Wild West" for most school situations, I realized that we most likely will not be allowed to use it. One intriguing paragraph for me was the Baltimore Foreign language teacher who uses twitter as a way of having students connect snippets of information, keep an assessment of what they know and build vocabulary and grammmar skills. My big question is how??? I'm guessing that this is an AP teacher whose students analyze advanced text?
After reading the social bookmarking services section I was completely overwhelmed with trying to follow the implications and uses of Diigo and had a huge headache. I can see that it could be useful to teachers who need to comment on student work and that the student will be able to see how their writing is evolving. To me, Delicious sounded so much easier to use because the tag is everything. The fact that you don't need an e-mail address is also appealing from a teching standpoint although you still have to monitor that the comments are appropriate. Diigo is more content based whereas Delicious is about sharing links which makes it a good sharing tool for teachers of the same subject area.
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