Scootle
Finally! An idea that has incorporated all of the ideas we have been learning about on this course. One website that captures everything - networking, sharing of websites, pictures, files etc., without having the stress of logging on to each individual website!
Second Life
Love it!! Second Life brings teaching into this generations style of learning. Our kids are growing up in a world of technology; games on the computer and games on the TV. This program taps into this generation by teaching them in a world in which they are familiar. I love the fact that you can use this program to teach (for example) Kindergarten about the snow - most of the kids at our school have never seen snow, only in pictures. So to have a program that not only shows them snow, but the different things we can do on the snow (ski, ice skate etc) is incredible. This applies to the older grades as well - taking a tour of an Asian country is by far more interesting than seeing pictures in a book. The world is your oyster with this program. Now all we have to do is have the time to learn how to program the idea that is suitable to our needs.
Twitter
Twitter is a means of connecting with your friends on a day to day basis without having to send individual emails to all friends about what you are doing. Twitter lets the user read updates about their friends' lives as they happen. It has opened the world of connecting with celebrities and other people who once would have been "off limits" to the common person (for example, Kevin Rudd has a Twitter account).
As a Facebook fan, I see Twitter as another Facebook... except with Facebook you can learn more about your friends through sharing of pictures, writing on walls and individual emails. I have not signed up to Twitter as I feel that Facebook is enough social networking... there is only so much computer time in a day (or as I'm discovering, there is only so much computer time in a week!!)
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