Thank you! When I wrote that post, I was thinking about tech tools that are helpful for me in my daily routine and how they can be helpful for the kids too.

So, social networking: what if all of the kids in their personal learning network were part of a social networking site like Ning? Similar to the way the Horizon Project teachers are using Ning. It could be a protected network, so only the kids could access it, and they would all be able to connect more naturally than through blogging. Even if the official project is over, the connections could continue.

I’m thinking about the things that Clay writes about blogging becoming like homework, and trying to find a way to make the technology more personal, more approachable, more real for the students.

What do you think? I guess I should write a post about this…

Alecia,

It’s all happened in one year! I can’t wait to see what you’re doing at this time next year!

Our kids are using wikispaces and pbwiki. I usually have them use wikispaces because that’s where I have my account and I like the privacy settings, but we’ve participated with other projects that use pbwiki. Either way, the tech is so similar, they can figure it out. Does that help?

Great routines, it’s wonderful to see such tech being used in the context of learning. I love that it seems to be based around conversation, not the technology and it looks like the tech just supports that connectedness.

Just curious, when you tell them to check their social network, what do you mean? Elgg? Ning? Myspace?

Great work here!

Chris Craft