I think that WIKI could be a great tool to use with students. It would certainly be agreat way to conduct peer feedback. This wold especially be true if the site track changes and revisions of the writing.

I think tracking revisions would have to be a requirement for class work. I know that if people were editing stuff I wrote I would want to be able to see the changes. From a practical standpoint, in a public school the teacher would need to know who to nail if someone were screwing around with someone else’s work.

I would like to try wiki in my classes. The hard part would be structuring the time well. Also I would have to teach the kids another new technology. Finally I am sure someone in administration would grip. Not that I would care about that.

This seems like a good environment to link with other sites. I would certainly like to explore it more and see how I can use it in my classes. I would love to be able to use tech more in the classroom. Alas no computers.

Edublogs:

I like the layout of this site. It is fairly easy to use and seems to have some good features. I plan to keep working with it and get better. Since I am coning from a weblog background, mnost of it has been easy to pick up.
Tabulas:

I dont know about this one. I need to spend some time on this one. The group functions would be nice to use in a class. The problem is finding the time to have the kids use it.

TappedIn:

I am still unclear what I might use this for. I think it would be a good place for a faculty to gather and examine things away from the students. The big problem would be getting older people to use it since we have a few that dont check their email at CMHS. Go figure.

MOOOOOOOOOOOOO:

I like to MOO. I don’t have a hard time following the threads that go on in it. I konw that a lot of teachers would. I beleive that most of ny students would not have trouble sine the pace of the MOO is far less than the multiple IM windows they have open. The only problems I had with the MOO was loading the software from last weeks. It brought my system to its knees. This could be an issue for use in schools.