Thing 19

Aside from Facebook and Twitter, I honestly never realized that there were so many social networking sites out there. In this age of technology, it is wonderful that teachers have the opportunity to use these resources to reach out to their students and parents on a different level and keep in better communication than we have been able to in a long time.  I have been a member of Instagram for a couple years now and I love it. I love to take pictures of my animals and their crazy antics and just have a network where I can keep and share pictures from fun events in my life with friends and family. It is not necessarily a social networking site I would consider using in the classroom because it is difficult to add text information. 

While looking through the sites, I found Good Reads, which is a social networking site devoted to sharing book recommendations between friends. I think this is wonderful because I love to read and I am often looking for the next wonderful thing to feast my eyes on. However, I am often baffled as to what to read because there is so much out there and I could spend hours at the book store reading the backs of books just trying to find one to read. This site allows me to create a profile and read others recommendations of books and communicate between others as to what I enjoy and let them help me in the search.