What is the value of Twitter?
Select one of the sites that you explored from The Best of the Web 2008. What did you like or dislike about the tool? What were the site’s useful features? Could you see any educational applications for it?
For my personal life I think Twitter will be of limited value. I really am not into working in the garden and tweeting what I am doing. Educationally, I really don't see an application for Twitter at this point. Students may tweet among themselves about their homework or classes at the end of the school day, but I do not see myself joining these mini-conversations.
I really liked the Best of the Web 2008 site. I did explore SpanishPod and Mango Languages in a cursory way. These could be suggested to students for extra practice or possibly used in the language lab. From a personal standpoint, I also explored the My Heritage site a bit...quite interesting! I plan to go back to the list and do some more exploring when I have more time.
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With so many of these sites in their infancy, I think we are just exploring the tip of the iceberg and think Twitter might emerge with so many more possibilities than it is currently being used for
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