I became a Google+ user this week and I like it. From what I can tell it lets you do pretty much everything Facebook lets you do with some bonuses including being able to edit your status updates and comments and that you can select who the feed goes to via the circle(s) in which you share your updates. The circles I'm using are colleagues, co-workers, GTA, friends, family, volleyball. The status updates still don't have a feature which I really want: nesting of comments. Is that really so hard??? It does let you tag people in your status which I find useful.Another cool feature is hanging out. This lets you connect with up to ten people via audio, video, and chat and from my experience it works rather seamlessly. It also has a YouTube video share which I think will be powerful as a teaching and learning tool. While as an educator, my initial thought was only ten people? My next thought was, the reality is that it is difficult to have meaningful discussions with more than ten people. The rule of ten might in fact result in much more interesting and effective learning. For instance:
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