I have really enjoyed learning about Google Sites this week and understanding how to use them for my classroom. It seems that Google sites will offer more possibilities and resources for a classroom site that my UEN page does considering all of the links, applications and such. At work this week I hear of a teacher who got in trouble because of angry parents who where upset that their childrens' class had a Facebook page. I found it interesting that a teacher would resort to Facebook to create a page for her students to access for class updates when there are so many other educational friendly sources, especially Google sites!
My favorite part of the video The Machine is Using Us was at the end when it said, "We'll need to rethink ourselves."
I'm not sure why, but that really stood out to me. Maybe because it is a little mind boggling to think how different life will be as technology becomes more integrated in our everyday lives and we won't survive if we don't rethink ourselves, our jobs, and education.
I have to agree today not to many parents like FaceBook. You would do best using Edublog, Google Sites, UEN plus the other web sites for educators.
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