I have not limited myself to one post per day because it's never really been a problem for me, as it is for others. The developer community at facebook recently brought back the interactive friend thing (or sociogram) of your own social network on facebook. This is huge. There is a big problem because it is so slow to use, but the interactivity is great and the analysis that you can do with it is great. The way our sociogram website is set up does not involve interactivity, but only provides a snapshot and some analysis of your social network in the classroom. But you can download the file and open it on your own computer with no problem. I am going to have to re-evaluate everything we are doing and find out if there is a way to include http://www.touchgraph.com into our site now. Schools need this and students will understand it better than teachers. Right now our site is designed to help teachers and parents, but ultimately I think that this information will be much more powerful in the hands of the students.

Just a side note. Not only does http://www.touchgraph.com provide the background software for this, but they have something amazing that I have never thought of. It's a network map of websites. Who links to who? Who do those that you link to or that link to you link to? (If that makes sense). This could be great for our network map of books starting with love is the killer app.

Labels: facebook, network mapping, sociogram