Social Networking and Education. . .

Posted on August 5th, 2008 by cthompson0168

. . . and nary the two shall meet.  First off, educators are fearful to use sites like MySpace or Facebook in the classroom because of safety concerns.  There are ways to handle this through class rules, teacher controls, and safe networking sites.  “So-called “safe” social networking sites, such as Whyville.net and Imbee.com, hope to [...]

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Blogging in the Classroom

Posted on July 21st, 2008 by cthompson0168

First off, teachers, what is a blog?  The term blog is a shortened version of web log.  A web log is simply an online journal.  And perhaps in the beginning that’s all you will use it for, but there is much more you and your students can do.  “Blogs are useful teaching and learning tools [...]

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