Thing #19: Social Networking

While working through this Thing #19, I stumbled across Edmodo.  After watching the demo video on the front page this site seems like a very practical tool to use within a classroom.  I love that you can keep a class calendar, submit assignments, and communicate with students through the site.  The interface appears to be very similar to Facebook and an app is available for mobile devices.  I am excited to use this site in my own classroom, and I think my students would enjoy using it.

I have been a member of Pinterest for a few years now and use it frequently for new ideas- mostly crafts and recipes.  Before now I had not considered using it for classroom inspiration.  Other social medias I frequent are Yelp and allrecipes.com.  During college, in 2007, I began an allrecipes.com account and have developed an extensive catalog of recipes and commented, reviewed, and rated several others within this community providing my changes and recommendations on how to tweak a recipe or what went well or disastrous during my experience.  Reading others' comments has actually saved my product several times and created a delightful dish or added a new flare to an old recipe I would not have otherwise thought to change.