I found this chapter very interesting but it is very unclear to me how I can use the social web ssuccessfully in my math classroom to improve education. I was very interested to see how, for example, Twitter could be used in the classroom. So I went to the website Twitter For Teachers . At this website I found a video on using Twitter in the classroom. I was turned off becasue it looked like a college classroom which is much different then a middle school classroom. The students were using twitter to tweet opinions, issues, and other quick thoughts which they may be less likely to say out loud in the classroom. Good for college but risky for middle school students. For personal use I could see using Twitter to find other people who are tweeting about a book I'm reading maybe to get thoughts like I would get in a book club.
In chapter 5 there was a significant description of how to use social bookmarking web sites for searching more eficiently versus using other search engines. The bookmarking services are a community of people who join and and then save links and tag them with their own keywords. I checked out delicious.com http://delicious.com/ and searched for George Babbitt who is the main character in the novel I'm reading and got zero results. That was surprising because when I googled George Babbitt I got many results. This result indicates to me that the website is not yet populated with many links. Sooooooo, I'm not quite sure why it is better to use a social bookmarking web site for searching then a high powered search engine like google.
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