Well, I guess to some extent, that's partly my point. On Twitter, I see enormously effective networks of ed-tech people, who have only to put out a question to their "PLN" and will have multi responses within the hour, if not minutes. They are also constantly linking to one another's blogs and to articles of interest to one another. I only see this because I'm hooked up to a few of them via my own involvement with online teaching. But there's nothing similar amongst people in my own discipline, at least not that I've found. That's not to say they don't exist - I may just have not stumbled across them yet.
And LJ of course is one such network!
I'm using blogs in all my writing courses, and require the students to read and comment on each others. I had a wonderful class wiki one year, but it was dependent on a platform that doesn't exist any more, and I've been unable to persuade the IT people at my college to give me one.
Here's an enormously effective use of web materials for teaching: The Canadian History Project (http://www.canadianmysteries.ca/indexen.html)
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And LJ of course is one such network!
I'm using blogs in all my writing courses, and require the students to read and comment on each others. I had a wonderful class wiki one year, but it was dependent on a platform that doesn't exist any more, and I've been unable to persuade the IT people at my college to give me one.
Here's an enormously effective use of web materials for teaching:
The Canadian History Project (http://www.canadianmysteries.ca/indexen.html)