RSS, Twitter, and Facebook and Flickr… These are a Few of my Fa-vo-rite Things!
Ahh… these are delightful little gadgets. 
With RSS I can keep up with Fr. Herald Brock, who is serving the poor in the Sudan. Misleading as it may seem, Twitter is an excellent site for networking. Of course I follow Ashton Kutcher, but I can also read tweets from rock and pop and other pleasant sounding music stars that I enjoy. I can even get real-time news feeds from the New York Times. For the future English teacher in me, there are also publishing companies and authors who are my fellow twits. 
Facebook is all about connecting with acquaintances, friends, and family. ‘Nuff said!
If you couldn’t tell from my widget, I love Flickr. I cannot believe what I was missing from Flickr. I feel like Christmas morning has arrived! I would love to compile my photos from around the world and tag them geographically. It would be awesome to do share this with students. They could load their own geographically diverse photos for a class album! The tinyurl.com at the end of the chapter did not work, but no worries! I found “The Great Flickr Tools Collection”.
Here are a few of the other links from the chapter I found interesting.
Enjoy!
Flickr does have some really interesting project possibilities with their geotagging feature…I can see students doing local photo-essays tagged to locations, in service of some pressing issue…
Twitter has been vindicated a bit for me with the fallout from the Iranian elections…while the regime has stifled other outlets, Tweets are still getting through and informing the world about the Iranian government’s totalitarian actions…this is important stuff.
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