Have you ever started reading websites and following links, finding so much cool stuff that your brain was going to explode? Then you started closing tabs, only to remember what you had started searching for!
That happened to me today. While searching for educational uses of social networks I first read http://venturebeat.com/2007/12/03/facebook-education-app-gets-funding/ It was an interesting article about the future of how within facebook students could easily form study groups, share notes, and so forth.
Then I went to http://www.infinitethinking.org/2008/01/social-networking-in-education.html which had a host of links (this is where I got sidetracked). One site that was interseting was http://www.classroom20.com/ Two things I found that are somewhat unrelated, but amazing were this Karl Fisch video: http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=6f2c2eba77f39993d118&page=1&viewtype=&category= and this one that syncs "We Didn't Start the Fire" with visuals: http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=f061977fb2f7ba36d74d&page=1&viewtype=&category=
BYU is not currently blocking teachertube. Sweet.
Anyways, back to the article, the author works for Ning...an social network for educators. They had lots of interesting links--but for the ones I clicked on you had to be a part of Ning...
I am left with a lot of thoughts in my mind from the Fisch video, thinking about how much web-traffic myspace and facebook currently generate, and yet they did not exist just five years ago. What an interesting task to think about how social networks can affect education.
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I love the "head is about to explode" feeling... It lets me know I'm on the verge of actually understanding something. =)
Have you seen Fisch's other video http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2006/09/what-if.html ?
Yes...you showed it in class, and I loved it!
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