Twitter - a great tool for which my personality has limited use - is gaining a fair bit of serious thinking from people like Nancy White: Thinking about Twitter Part 1 and Part 2. Twitter is also being used in reporting, business, education (see also Doug Belshaw's post), and so on.
Lifestreaming (yay, another buzzword!) is based largely on the continuous expression of our activities, including my all time favorite illustration that natural selection doesn't always work: Justin.tv (with a concept called lifecasting).
Posted by gsiemens at August 27, 2007 12:56 PM | TrackBackUh oh, serious thinking? :-)
Actually, I've been quite inspired by the informal edublogging network and how they use Twitter. Quite amazing!
Posted by: Nancy White at August 27, 2007 6:37 PMGeorge, there's many tools that educators could use just for the sake of it - jumping on bandwagons.
I have to say that I think Twitter has educational potential. Easiliy recording and then sharing the steps in a learning process could be very beneficial. It also allows for teacher modelling and self-reflection/evaluation.
Of course, it's also great in terms of learning networks: it's a very flexible tool with multiple pedagogical uses. :-)
Posted by: Doug Belshaw at August 28, 2007 1:51 PM