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Old tech, new tech, online, offline - this revolution has used everything.

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Comedy gold. The subversive power of social media has one of its finest moments. Couldn't happen to a more deserving target.

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Jason is right, I think, that the more FB or any social media service tries to be the whole web experience, the less successful, or at least less useful, it will ultimately be. Twitter and Amplify, along with Diigo, remain my favorites because they each do one thing well. And also because they are all very responsive to their user communities, remaining very focused on the user experience and what their users tell them they need.

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I love Prezi as a collaborative classroom tool; but here, as so often, Howard transcends.

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Take a look at Gina's post. Whatever our relationship to learning, emerging tech, social media etc, we should all be cautious in filtering and analyzing our sources, as Gina is here.

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Amplify + education = ?

How would that work? To the extent that Amplify combines social bookmarking and annotation or commentary, on the one hand, and blogging (micro-, midi-, and now full-blown) on the other, it replicates or parallels tools I already use in and out of the classroom - diigo, blogs, and twitter (read more <a href="http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/EngagingStudentswithEngagingTo/192954" target="_blank">here</a>).  It also plays well with those other tools - I was particularly grateful when the team added diigo to the integrated services.

The question for me is whether there is added value in combining elements of these things in one platform in a formal educational context.

Informally, I learn from Amplify every day. I am clearly an active and enthusiastic user. Can and should that transfer in some formal way to my role as educator? I'll be thinking about it, experimenting a bit, probably. And reporting back in this space. In the meantime, I would welcome input from educators, learners, researchers, and everyone else, with ideas on what Amplify can do for education.

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Seriously - when Josie can tweet something like this and it makes perfect sense, the only response is to marvel at the era in which we live.

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