Thing 11

I found this slideshow to be pretty inclusive of many things we are discussing in our class. Even though this appears to be from a couple years ago, it's kinda cool to see some of the early(ier) thinkings of the "social web"

http://www.slideshare.net/charleneli/sxsw09-the-future-of-social-networks

One possible use of slideshare in the classroom would be to assign the students to find information on a math concept, instead of giving them the information. The slides below would be for a quadrilateral lesson. Information is completely at their fingertips. We don't have to show them how to do every little thing, tell them what they need to know, let them find the information and then prove that mastery to us...just assign topics to know but not solutions.

http://www.slideshare.net/corinnegallagher/sorting-quadrilaterals

Problems would still be that digital divide that people talk about, not everyone has a pc or internet at home, or access to the library after school to use the "free" computer and internet at the library.