"Thing Eight"
For thing eight I chose Twitter. I have never Twittered but I follow several people or things who are very good, like Richard Byrne, Mary Beth Hertz, edutopia, and several "google"  sites. These all have something to do with education and or iPads. I also follow my schools athletics teams on twitter this I have found is an excellent way for the coach to communicate with their players and family members about upcoming games. It is also a good way to get those last minute messages posted. One of our teachers has his students twitter answers to questions during class time. This has proven effective, but only for students who have a devise they can twitter from. One downside we found out quickly was after a district technology meeting one of the members, a teacher twittered about something that had been discussed during the tech meeting within a few hours someone called and email our district technology person saying they had talked to the teacher about getting  new technology for the district. The teacher had NEVER talk directly to this person, just through his twitter feed. Like most posts whether on twitter or Facebook or another social site once it's out there you can't take it back.