I'm teaching senior history and international politics in Melbourne this year. My Yr 11s are doing Twentieth Century history and my Year 12s are studying the French Revolution. My Yr 12 International Politics class are looking at globalisation and internationalism at the moment, and will move on to terrorism, foreign policy, asia-pacific region etc. We'd love to hook up to another class or twoand discuss current evernts

 I'm keen to find classes anywhere in the world for my students to discuss what they are learning. Let me know if you are interested or if you know of someone who might be!

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I just read an article about how social media is becoming the new inbox for the web. Check it out here. A couple of the things the author mentions that I highlighted were:
*that 'Facebook Me' is being used like 'Google it' and instead of email addresses people are exchanging social media information. Don't worry about asking for someone's phone number, just ask them if they are on Facebook.
*Social media is more effective than emails as it allows for more fluid conversation and if you can read status updates like 'I got a new job' or 'saw X movie last night and thought it was fantastic' then there is no need for emails to be filling up inboxes.

The most important part of this article for me was the last bit where the author, Erik Qualman, states that even though consumers do not want to communicate via piles of emails, many businesses have not caught on to this. It just made me wonder what we are missing in education. How do our students WANT to be communicated with? What are we really missing? Would we be able to reach them more effectively if we communicated with them through their favoured social media outlets (as well as f2f) ? I suspect we could.

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