web 2.0 blogging-Richard Smith

Wikis and blogs with students would be useful for a class like this, where online activities are essential.  Otherwise outside the class wikis and blogs would not be really useful for my subject area of physical education, other than using wikipedia to get anatomy pictures or make my students blog about the class outside of classtime, as in a homework assignment.

Socialbookmarking is very interesting but i dont think i would ever use it or have my students use it, it is a very interesting idea but my class will be in a gymnasium so access to internet and computers is not apart of my teachings.  Voicethread would be a fun thing to try out, I would like to try it out one time just to see how it went and see who would comment on my voicethread.

"we show that bridges participate more than nonbridges in both synchronous and asynchronous communication modes."  Tapped in looks like a very useful site with lots of links to different books and sources that would be great for teachers to have, it has up to date stuff on technology to help keep teachers fresh in the teaching game.

Schlager, M., Farooq, U., Fusco, J., Schank, P., & Dwyer, N. (2009) Analyzing online social networking in professional learning communities: Cyber networks require cyber-research tools. Journal of Technology Education, 60(1), 86-100.

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