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Found: Teachers on MySpace
So I was trying to locate public groups that teachers might join and discuss classroom issues. Well, while searching for groups on MySpace, did a search on math. I did not select all categories, I was just on whatever group it had defaulted to, and to my surprise (gasp), I found 15 groups, most of which were hate groups! But on a serious note, when I searched for teaches in all categories, I did find this one, which has over 1700 members.
http://groups.myspace.com/theteachersroom
The current discussion is on class size, which I know many of us struggle with. Large class sizes are harder to teach. The kids just distract each other, making it harder for them to learn and for us to teach.
So if anyone has a MySpace account, you may want to check this group out.
March 30th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Pam, is this the group you sent me in myspace? Also, how did you find the group discussion. I formed the Social Network group, but I can’t even post a comment on it or find the discussion for the other groups. Is there somewhere or something I need to click on to blog with the group?
March 31st, 2008 at 11:40 am
Once I joined the group, I went to the Forum section and clicked on the topics listed there. I was able to post a reply to a discussion thread about classroom sizes. Let me know if this does not work. The group shows up under the Group option in my account.