Hi Maha,
I am watching your interview now – congrats on the DML highlight! How exciting for you 🙂 And well-deserved.

One of the things that just struck me, when you mentioned that your students were blogging and tweeting openly, and then receiving responses from Brazil and other parts of the world…curious about how you think that dynamic might have changed if you had not had such a robust PLN to call upon going into the assignment? For example, if you and your students were learning the new piece of social media/technology concurrently? The students were amazed at the responses that came in – I wonder, would the impact on the students be the same?

I hope this does not come across as a criticism – I”m mostly thinking as I type here, about how the activity may look/be structured in various situations. I”m also wondering if educators who may be new to using Twitter try a similar activity, and what that response would potentially look like. hmm…ok, I guess this is along the same lines of what I posted above, but for some reason they are separate in my mind right now.

Congrats again!