Learning in a Virtual Environment IV

This week, Week 5, we worked on setting up a Delicious, PBWorks and Facebook page and asking fellow classmates to join us.  The PBWorks was more help with professional sharing because bookmarks were concerning blending technology in the classroom. When sharing links with classmates there are more ideas floating around. We discussed an article: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2008-12-03-digital-brain_N.htm. The article is about how different students are tday than 20 years ago.  The author states that our minds have been rewired from the all the terchnology.  He believes the newer generations do not have the social skills needed to cope with the world.  So, we need to combine the digital age with interpersonal communications in our teaching. In Discussion 3 and working with delicious.com we researched and created bookmarks.  We used the tags and shared bookmarks with the tag "ashford_edu651". Our book is:  Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms by Will Richardson. Concepts such as micro-blogging, Twitter, RSS feeds and Social Bookmarking are discussed.