Texting and Multi-modal Texts

The important things I learned from the video are text reflects casual speech, someone has always been concerned over people's inability to write "properly", and texting has it's own linguistics.  But the most important thing I learned is that texting is not language at all.

I'm not sure that I see myself really using Blabberize in the classroom.  Though simple enough to use, saving and sharing the results have been difficult for me.  I had to remake mine several times before I could get it to save and share at all.  The only potential I see for it would be to introduce characters from a story or figures from history, but I'm not sure that the effort to actually get the site to work and save the material is worth it.