Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Friday, September 11, 2009

Welcome to our class blog page!!!

Welcome to our blog site. We will use this blog to share ideas with each other and to share with the world a view of our experiences and our lives at MICDS in Geometry class.

In my first blog post, I want to consider the use of social media both in your lives and in the classroom. The use of some types of social media, like email, the internet, and even blogs and wikis, has become prevalent in classrooms at all age levels around the world. More recent trends indicate an increased use of other social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, and cell phones.

In order to gauge where the use of social media fits into your life, I would like you to post a comment answering the following questions:
1. Do you contribute regularly to a blog or wiki?

2. Do you have a Facebook account?

3. Do you have a Twitter account?

4. If you are a consumer of social media, which vehicle do you use more frequently to access the social media tools you use - your computer or your cell phone?

5. Of all the social media tools you utilize, which one would you miss the most if your access to it was shut down? What would you miss?

6. Of all the social media tools you utilize, which one do you see having the most potential as a tool to strengthen, deepen, and make more meaningful the learning that already happens in your classes and in your school? How/why?

7. Of all the social media tools you utilize, which one do you see as having the least potential as a tool to strengthen, deepen, and make more meaningful the learning that already happens in your classes and in your school? How/why?

When you have addressed each of these questions in your comment, please do not forget to click on the "publish comment" button.