Thinning walls

I read several blogs from our classmates and disagree a little with some of them and totally agree with others.  That shows me that this in another topic that has different meanings depending on the Point Of View of the students/person it is coming from.   When I first heard thin walls, I immediately though of the flat classroom and I still feel that this is a version of that concept.  I read the blog, A Difference: Thin Walled World.  This blog was the ideal blog about thin walls in my POV.  I feel that linking classrooms together while still in yours is what a thin wall classroom is. This article talks about online mentoring through blogs.  I myself have never head of it, but this blog has several examples of links to show what they have done.  I really like this and feel that it could be a job or career in the future for people that are confined to their homes or just like to use the internet to help other people.  From what I can tell from this sites is that the students do assignments and blog about them.  They blog about likes and dislikes.  They also have an assignment posted from flickr.  It is a picture that has all the mathematical functions labeled on it from the picture.  It is a great example of math on the internet.  They are trying to get the  internet mentoring to be a good reference for scholarships applications as he states in: “their learning has been enriched via these online mentorships and they have started to think of ways they can pay it forward and maybe get a good reference for scholarship applications they will be making in the near future.”The students are benefitting from the online mentoring then they want to pay it forward as seniors and become the mentor.   I only found one blog that was from the mentor and it was a really great slideshare of geese and why and how they fly.  The blog states that at least one question a day is answered between the two classroom that are working together online.  Since it isn’t clear to me exactly how it is done, I assume that the students blog about a question and the other class will blog back.  Not for sure, but you can read about it yourself:“(another teacher and ) I are collaborating with his two classes of student teachers mentoring my classes via their blogs this year as well. “This person is also mentioning some names of well known bloggers (I assume since they only use the first names) like Clarence (Fisher) and Barbara(can’t remember her last name).  If I’m not mistaken, we had some assignments last semester using these blogs.  They are working on an “Advice Through Ethereal walls” blog.  This one I haven’t really investigated, but I think these people are some people to watch in the field of technology and education.