I am already accustomed to dragging my laptop into the classroom everyday to hook-up to the projector, but if my students had laptops (I taught at a private school) I would use them.
They liked making their own PowerPoint presentations and using YouTube and fun graphics. I had to teach them how to search the web for science information (got into a sticky spot once!). So it is an easy assumption that we would use the internet to gain information.
I have not been a facebook fan, but after this class, I see the potential now for interacting in forums and blogs. This is a medium that is natural to our students - I bet they would be teaching me new ways to use it. The program that I want to use is VoiceThread. The students can have discussions without interruptions. Everyone has an equal voice. It is not as personal because it is on the computer (even with the video rolling).
I want my students to communicate with each other and me with Skype. I tried to get them to email me, but (what I have learned from Ed) I need to make it part of the class, and not just as suggestion. I had students who lost a weekend's worth of work time just because they had an unanswered question. They are too shy to call, and don't have my email address handy. But if they had emailed me before, they could have easily accessed that address.
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