Tusso’s Blog

So I joined Twitter. Like most people in the class, I have mixed feelings. I feel that while Twitter can be a useful tool that allows information to be brought to you rather than you having to search for it. However, I also think that it is overrated and sensationalized. I guess you could argue the same thing about facebook, but I prefer facebook because it is not just about following and partaking in “who said this or who said that.” We’ll see how this goes. I didn’t want to completely knock it though until I try it.

I’ve been doing research for Tony, Terese, and my Skype presentation on Thursday. A lot of the resources come from teachers’ blogs. Here is an example of one honors British Literature class in New Jersey that I found at Apace of Change Blog. The teacher and his students developed questions using their wiki page and then skyped with another teacher in Wales about the history of the area. I’ll be sharing some resources like this. Tony and Terese will look at tutoring through skype and reinventing pen pals to have “skype pals.” We’ll also be demonstrating how skype works.