so i went to several panel presentations at a conference today that i thought would introduce me to the reading i need to do to be more media savvy. instead they focused on how to use interfaces, and how to be friends with students through myspace and facebook without having it impact your personal social use of the social network sites. there was a very interesting session on using wikipedia to teach research skills. i really liked it. also an interesting implementation of wiki spaces to teach students academic tone, which will teach them to comunicate better with us, the teachers. very interesting stuff. now i just need to figure out where to get my exposure to academic writing on new media . . . . .