I  enjoyed the class on the Social Web as I was somewhat familiar with the topics presented and didn't feel like I was playing catch up all night long! I really liked learning how to use Twitter as a professional tool.  I am already using it to archive articles I have read or want to read.  I am hoping to get some good information from people I have found to follow and I finally get the use of hash tags.  I think its so interesting that hash tags are searchable.

I viewed the Ted Talk on Twitter and found it fascinating that the process of sending a tweet to a specific person was something that the users came up with and was not in the original ideas about Twitter.

I also was interested to learn about the updated  LinkedIn.  I had previously had an account but abandoned it as it seemed a waste of my time.  The changes they have made gave me fresh insight to its usefulness.  I intend to use its news aggregating function and feel that will be useful for keeping up with current events in education news.  It may also help me find a job when I finish my degree!

I will eventually start a Pinterest board to save  teaching activities and lesson plans that I like. Up unitl now I have avoided Pinterest because I thought I would spend way too much time looking at other people's boards, but i see how it could be another valuable resource for both stimulating my own creativity and finding something that fits what I was looking for.

Diigo has already proven to be a useful tool especially in my research.  I love being able to bookmark a webpage without cluttering up my browser and to be able to find something I looked at days or weeks ago so easily it extremely helpful.

In conclusion, I think that I will be using each of the tools regularly both as a research or locating tool and  in connecting with my colleagues around the globe.