Chapter 6

Chapter 6

p. 87 – “(Twitter is) a pretty amazing, and potentially addicting, tool once you get into it. (That addicting part is why I also follow “InnerTwitter” at innertwitter.com”

I was intrigued, knowing a little about Twitter, so I checking out InnerTwotter, and it was kind of a zen-like version of Twitter that deals only with what is right in front of you. A great idea for sure – we’re waaaaay to inundated with information for sure, but isn’t this yet another addiction? I’m not sure, but either way I like it!

p. 88 – “Paul Allison of the East Bronx Academy of the Future has created a site called YouthTwitter.com where students are posting their 140-character updates in a permission-only environment.”

I like this, particularly for my future elementary school students, and also for JCPS in general who likely have a “no Twitter” policy.

p. 90 – “users of social bookmarking systems have created a new concept to deal with the change: The process is no longer taxonomy but “foksonomy.” The idea is that in working with your community of researchers, new tagging systems will emerge and become accepted that will allow us to participate in the process.”

This gives me great hope for the future of information and the responsible use of it on the Internet. This should be taught in school (and I will) because it is one road to a truly democratic society where all of the valuable information will be easily available to all. This is a civil right in my opinion.


p. 93 – “If we use (diigo stickynotes) with the groups function, just the two of us will be the only ones to see the highlights and sticky notes. That is very, very cool, I think, and makes Diigo a tool every teacher should experiment with.”

This has huge implications for utilizing Diigo with students to provide feedback on a web-based program. One-on-one conferenceing in the virtual world!

p. 94 – “the Diigo annotations page collects all of the feedback that’s been left on student work from across the individual blog posts, allowing them to get a useful view over time of how their writing is evolving.”

If this isn’t the future of how blog writing 101 portfolios will be created and graded, I don’t know what is. It seems like a much more streamlined way to keep a portfolio as well!