I have to admit that I am a total Facebook addict! I joined this summer… invited by another friend who joined because it was her 20th high school reunion and they had a facebook group. Well, it was my 20th high school reunion too, and I reconnected with a jillion people I went to high school with on FB… and many of them I never even liked when I was in high school! (haha!) One really interesting thing that came of the whole high school reunion on FB was that I reconnected with a friend who has the exact same job as me, but in NJ. We’ve shared a lot of stories, questions and ideas via FB, and that’s been fantastic. I have to admit that I even have an iPod Touch with the FB application so I can just easily surf my friends’ statuses. Many of the Decatur teachers are on FB and we catch up and make instructional plans all via FB instead of email!  Lastly, the night of the election was truly amazing… my husband was at work (CNN) and I was alone watching the election coverage while on Facebook.  So the hours I spent watching that monumental night, I spent with 20+ friends as we all updated our status, I experienced this amazing event with friends…. even though there was only me and my sleeping son in the house!!

Enough about Facebook…. (man, it’s obvious I love it!) I thought Classroom 2.0 was great and had to join. I thought the Forum was an excellent resource- we’re supposed to know all the answers and we just need a place to go and ask questions! I also joined the Mac Classroom 2.0 which had threads and posts relevant to our technologies.

Ning has great potential- I thought the add-free, fairly secure environment for 7th-12th graders made it a great resource for middle and high school teachers. Let’s teach them with the tools they use- and like using!