Social Networks For Class Discussions

Google has created a new feature called Google Friend Connect. It is a social network but you add it to your own website or blog. It allows users and people to explore your site, rate their viewings, also to chat and meet new people. In a way it kind of works like Face book because you can interact with different users. I think that a feature like this should be used more often in classes. Oncourse is not really a successful means of communication for students to hold discussions about assignments. I know that there some professors use the Social Network but many do not. I think that if professors used networks like these, students would communicate and share their ideas more often. They can also see examples of each other’s work and comment on them. It is helpful to many students to see examples of their peer’s work such as blogs because it could help them understand different point of views. It also helps students learn from one another when they add to social discussions. When I took NEWM-N100 we used a social network called Ning Group just for our class. It helped me have more of an insight on things we discussed in class and what the professors, assistants, and students all thought. It also opened my mind to many ideas and different technologies. I would recommend many classes use networks like these because it keeps the students more in tune to what is going on in the course topics.