Social Networking and Schools

So here I am, so clever (!) getting ready to develop a Web 2.0 class for my doctoral students, only to discover that blogs, social networking sites and some wikis are blocked by their schools and school districts! Who knew?

I actually wondered, since when I gave a presentation on social networking at Good Counsel Academy in November there was much tittering when I suggested that the causes section on Facebook would be a good way to identify folks who might share some of the same interests that the students have.

Oh well-that's what happens when you fall in love with the technology and don't always see the dark side. Just another challenge!

Fakebook?

Okay, so like many other "adults" I've discovered Facebook (and LinkedIn, too, but that's another story for a different day). I think it's fun, and maybe it does make me feel like a young person again. But I was really surprised by the Op-Ed piece in this Saturday's New York Times The Fakebook Generation. I didn't realize that my idea of fun would be someone else's idea of, well, comedy, entertainment, distraction.
Live and learn!