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[EduGeek Journal] Call it socialization.  Call it constructivism, or connectivism.  Or pop-educational mumbo jumbo.  But the factor that makes Web2.0 sites like Facebook so popular is that they help people connect with each other and interact in interesting ways.  Sure, you might come up with a really solid pedagogical way to use blogs in an online course.  Students get out there and do an awesome job journaling their thought processes as they work on class projects. But once the students get out there and create their own blog, those blogs are still independent of each other, with no real networking going on (beyond the two required comments students have to post each week).  Or you are using Twitter to just broadcast class updates, with no real socialization happening?  Students will get bored quickly.  What ever tool you use, you need to utilize the social nature of that tool and get students interacting.

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