Social Networking and the Many Voices for Darfur Project
Okay, I’m two days into the Many Voices for Darfur project and I’m still running really high on this right now.
A few months ago I spoke at a conference and mentioned that about one-third of my students were in the class social network. Nobody called me on it during the presentation, but someone mentioned in a blog post that if only one-third of the students were involved the in the network then it must not be that useful and why bother. I was more bummed out that they had the comments off on their blog than I was about their post, because they weren’t all the way wrong.
One of the things that I walked away from the session I helped lead on social networking at Educon was that if we’re going to use social networking then it has to be the center piece of the class. Not a supplemental. Not something extra. The class itself. I haven’t been able to do that, until now.
Everything that’s going to happen is going to happen there. Everything that the students learn (other than my ugly-mug kicking the thing off) will be headed off by them. And then on March 6th we’ll all go and post. This is going to be amazing.
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Nancy responds:
Posted: February 13th, 2008 at 6:50 pm →
I’m blogging about your Many Voices project and will see if my young students respond. http://areallydifferentplace.org Your students may be interested to hear about Steven Spielberg–I heard about it on NPR today. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120285499475363491.html?mod=rss_media_and_marketing
noname responds:
Posted: February 21st, 2008 at 7:35 pm →
why can’t all teachers think like you?