Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Wow Wow Wiki

What a great tool for brainstorming and peer tutoring! I can see the benefits and the controversy behind this. This would be great for collaborating on the same paper. Also, for hypothesising on a science project. It could even be set up for peer critiquing. So that the person critiquing would comment on another student's work and then adds his/her own work.
The controversy of anyone being able to add "grafiti" is huge. Very scary, with so many preditors. I think as an educator we do need to maintain a watchful eye on our students.

Sunday, October 7, 2007

Educational Blogs

I feel that we as a society are on a brand new threshold. A new doorway into the organization of many peoples thoughts. Could you imagine if we would of had this tool 200 years ago? People could blog about current events, such as the civil war. How neat would that be to reread those 200 years later? It blows my mind to think of the possibilities and the information that is being gathered, researched, organized, and read each second. The RSS feeds are a brilliant idea, which is truly changing the face of the Internet. The past two years have pushed the Internet to another level. A level where information and thoughts are changing the world and our society!