Thing 8

I LOVE flickr. It is a dangerous site for myself! And it is making me ask myself why I spent hours on a scrapbook for my son, cutting, pasting and placing into the wee hours of morning!! It is such an easy tool to use to record pictures. In the classroom students can use this tool directly with writing and learning how to choose a theme/staying on topic/ relating information to each other... The list could go on. This is a site that can encourage people to view the world in a completely different way that they would maybe not have thought of on their own. Flickr is cool!!

Thing 6

Nings...Wow! From appearance it seems to be very similar to other sites such as myspace and facebook. This is another tool that can be used to build/develop a social network in which individuals can commmunicate across the world. A person may want to blog in a ning versus a blog because they are wanting to respond directly to the ning in which they belong. There are different nings for ANYTHING ANY person would ever want to follow. I'd be more impressed to discover a ning that doesn't exist ratehr than all the varieties already offered. It seems like there is NOTHING left in the world that has not been explored!!