I am loving this "thing" so much that I'm having trouble moving on. I have explored several links on the Web 2.0 Awards list. One site I found to be very interesting was Confabb. You can search, track, discuss, and review any conference, speaker, or session. You can also add a conference to the site for others to view.
The section about fun stuff was really fun. I checked out One Sentence and it is for users to post one true sentence. I read several posts and some would be inappropriate for a school setting. I can see this being very useful in the classroom, but it might be better to use a wiki for this so that posts can be controlled. The teacher could create a page and students could go in and work on writing one sentence. This would be a great way to practice summarization skills. Another fun site was fuzzmail. Anyone can type a message and send it to their friends. Their friends can watch exactly how it was typed. For example, if you are typing and then you have to use the back space key, they will see all of this on the screen. If you go back to add a word or change the spelling, they will see this as well. I can't really see and educational use at this time because it moves so quickly, but it could possibly be modified for writing skills. The students could watch to see how the teacher would modify their writing project.
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There is another site that sounds like it might be similar to Confabb called HitchHikr. It aggregates all posts that have the official conference "tag" on them, so that you can read about what is happening at a conference from many different bloggers' perspectives. If you want to check it out, the URL is http://www.hitchhikr.com
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