#5. "I walk. I prefer walking..." in Augmented Reality

Experiencing Web 2.0 tools in our EME courses have exposed how useful interfaces such as blogs and twitter can be. As a future educator, I can see a future in using blogs because of the writing platform, but also its shareable content. The podcast references the concern of student safety, but I feel as though we deal with this issue by having a teacher moderate what we post on the blogs. This is the same type of implementation I would like to use in my classroom. Contrarily, I could see where using accounts like twitter could be dangerous. Twitter does automatically sign up for a variety of accounts with a variety of mature content and opinions, and for young students this could be alarming, even with the precautions presented in the podcast (common classroom account).

In addition to blogs, I could also foresee using an account such as Scribd to enhance our classroom. Scribd is a digital library and e-book and audiobook subscription service that includes one million titles. In addition, Scribd hosts 60 million documents on its open publishing platform. This would create easily accessible materials as well as a place where students could publish a project they've worked on either in groups or as an individual assignment. These aspects are especially useful inside of an English classroom. 

In an ideal world with unlimited funding, I would love to one day use Meta Virtual Glasses for an interactive experience. I really love Victorian literature, so the idea of using augmented reality to be able to walk the same streets as Charles Dickens or get a street view of war-time England would be fascinating! It's traveling the globe without ever using our classroom. 

Title Quote: Jane Austen's Persuasion