Thing #18 Social Networking

I have had a Facebook account for probably five or six years now and have had a Twitter account for a year or so. I use Facebook everyday to keep up with friends and with pages that I like. I rarely use my Twitter account. I just never really got into it. I think it could be useful to have either a Facebook page for your students to look at that could have assignments listed. This could give students a way to look over directions again or if they were absent have a way to see what was done in class. Parents could also look at this page as a way to keep up with what their students were doing and what is being expected of them. I am not sure that Twitter could be as useful. It could be useful in sending instant updates but I do not know that it could be used to give a large amount of information.

Here is a link to my Twitter,
https://twitter.com/tellinfishtales
I have tried to get more into Twitter but have not been able to do it. Maybe it is because I do not follow many people I know and I have never been into to following people I do not know.

Hashtag searing is a bit irritating. They have been over used so it no longer streamlines searching for specific content. You will get some results you are looking for but you also will get a lot of other things.

Thing #17, Delicious

Delicious is a nice way to look up things and it stream lines the results for you. The links at the top are the ones most book marked by people. I did not see where people made comments about each link, telling what they found useful or not about each link. I might have been looking in the wrong places though. Not all the links are tagged but many have quite a few tags. Having a lot of tags can make things easier to find because you are not limited in your search fields. Having a lot of tags could also make things harder to find by having things that are not really what you are looking for pop up. This could be a useful tool for students doing research on something. It could streamline their search and be a place they could bookmark the information they have already found. This information would not just be bookmarked on their computer but be available on any computer that has internet access. Teachers could also use this in the same way. They can also follow others and join networks and see what others in their field are bookmarking.