Sarah Milstein predicts that micro-messaging will be as common as email in a few years and may replace email for certain kinds of information, such as client and customer relations.
micro-blogging is taking off because it fits how people work and think. But, cautions Lentz, “Think before you tweet. Each tweet is a webpage. It can be Googled. It’s forever.”
Jaron Lanier, the Original Virtual Realist (respect!) writing on the TED conference, makes an interesting point about how technology is shifting as it becomes more established:
Rating systems are something I find myself discussing fairly frequently. Partly because the idea shows up in a lot of projects and partly because I usually end up relating it to the rules people set for themselves within different social networks.
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Whether you visit online sites that play sounds or take a sound hike at school, a near-by park, or on a field trip, ask your students to notice the sounds they hear then write their own poems, using sound words, based on Dr. Seuss's Mr. Brown Can MOO! Can You?
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Educators who are early adopters of technology saw the power of such networks. There are a number of teacher sites, both closed and open, that allow teachers to network and share.