MySpace

The footprints led up to the falls... but Sherlock was alive and well! As for me, I was not traveling abroad, but in South Dakota and Montana and am now back on the trail of Web 2.0. After taking a look at both MySpace and FaceBook I decided to set up a My Space account. I was curious about it because so many of my former students loved it and it made a lot of news on 20/20. The whole process took only a few minutes and was much easier than setting up a blog. Tom is not my friend, but I did invite one friend, yes, only one friend. I don't see a personal use for this at this time, but liked the teen library stuff I browsed through and think it has great potential for school libraries. However, most schools have blocked all social networking sites. Beebo is another very popular site and students quickly figure out the proxy for it and use it anyway on school computers. Students could create a yearbook type site or even a newspaper style site for schools using this. Oh, it probably wouldn't be as cool then! But the possibilities of linking music and video in addition to photos would be great. The ads are a little too much but can be ignored.