Thing #23

I have just explored several social networking sites in the past two assignments. By far my favorite for me personally is Facebook which I explained in the last post. I am now a part of the "23 Thingters". I had never in my life heard of Ning. I feel the Classrooms 2.0 will be a great place to continue building my knowledge base for teaching. As far as the networking sites are concerned for my students it doesn't apply. I don't see at this time any reason a 5 year needing to explore an online social networking site. Maybe a child being home schooled could connect with a parent and build a network of friends they could learn from and meet with for social activities. A formal school Kindergartner's parent could do something with them but as far as it being a part of what they do in my classroom let say is just manageable. In conclusion, social networking will be very valuable to me as a teacher. Staying in touch with my co-workers on a personal and professional way is so important and can easily be done through social networking. I am using it now and will continue to use it in the future.