Tool review 5 - LinkedIn

Hi all,

Please find my Voice Thread link below for the most part of tool review for week 5.

https://voicethread.com/share/5883174/


Possible educational uses of LinkIn:

LinkedIn could be a marvelous resource for students in high ed thanks to its various cool feature sbesides connecting people professionally. I could imagine using LinkedIn for a major research assignment in my freshmen writing class, for example. Students would be asked to pick a topic regarding reading, writing, listening, experience with learning English, or Computer Assisted Language learning, etc. and conduct a second-hand research study (with a strong focus on presenting a comprehensive Lit review). Students will be asked to sign up for LinkedIn, and follow the language-learning-related groups, for example, the Visual Thesaurus, The Computer Assisted Language Learning, etc. or better to join their discussion forums to learn what's going on live. Students then will be asked to include in their research paper a number of most recently updates/works of literature on the field, which they accumulate through exploring LinkedIn resources and/or participate in the discussion. I would say this will be an authentic, straightforward project and within the students' reach.

Will I recommend this tool? 

Absolutely! I don't see any disadvantages of LinkedIn!

Thanks