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Virtual Collaboration: Finding Your Birds of a Feather
When I meet with educators for professional development around the topic of project-based learning I often ask experts to join us through Skype. Bud Hunt, Terry Smith, Julie Lindsay, Chris Lehmann, Linda Hartley, Jeff Utecht and others have graced my groups with their presence. Teachers are always impressed with their knowledge and passion, and note [...]
A Teaching Moment: This is Twepardy!
I spend Sunday afternoons putting together my lessons for the coming week. On Tuesday I had a lecture and class discussion on microblogging scheduled. About halfway through creating my PowerPoints I realized how incredibly boring a lecture on microblogging would be.
I scrapped the lecture idea and instead spent the next five hours developing Twepardy – [...]
Finding Balance
I have had a post brewing in my head for a very long time and I think this is the perfect forum in which to bring this issue to light. I would like to take this opportunity to discuss a problem that so many of us have, but are unwilling to acknowledge. The issue I [...]
Prepare for the Deluge of Social Media Created at NECC
It’s crunch time at ISTE Connects, which means we are working around the clock to ensure that we are ready to deliver valuable content for on-site and off-site NECC attendees. We realize that there will be an inevitable flood of social media as soon as NECC 2009 kicks-off, so we’ve come up with some ways [...]
Security awareness for Twitter account access
When it comes to granting other people, applications or websites “access” to any online account you maintain, whether the account is on Facebook, Twitter, GMail, or any other site, my advice is to be cautious and proceed slowly. This evening Dean Shareski brought the website HelpIranElection.com to my attention via a tweet. The website exhorts [...]
Archiving Twitter Nuggets
Twitter can provide an amazing quantity of great ideas and links on a daily basis, if you follow people and organizations who/which both:
Share your interests.
Use Twitter to share links.
With so many outstanding ideas and links being shared daily, it is important to consider how these resources can be efficiently saved for future use.
To date, my [...]
iTouch and iPhone Apps for Education
The power of Twitter and personal learning networks continues to amaze me! Yesterday Oklahoma teacher Christy Paradise tweeted me a question about available workshops or training resources on iTouch and iPhone applications for education / classroom use. After retweeting the question, California educator Sandra McGonagle replied with a link to Tony Vincent’s upcoming live workshop [...]
Meet Your Tweeps at the #NECC09 Tweet-up in DC!
Monday, June 29, 2009 from 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM (ET)
Rocket Bar DC – 714 7th St. NW Washington, DC
It’s time to meet your fellow tweeps at the #NECC09 Tweet-up in Washington DC! If you haven’t been to a tweet-up before it’s really simple – just show up, grab a drink, meet your friends and makes [...]
Skype and Twitter going more mainstream
Technology “norms” can change fast. Not too long ago, if you mentioned “Skype” or “Twitter” to someone in casual conversation, it was not unusual to receive a quizzical response. Thanks in part to mainstream media influencers like CNN and Oprah, however, these technologies and terms are becoming more mainstream and finding their way into the [...]
Demonstrate the Power of a Personal Learning Network: Help Send a Newbie to NECC
It seems like not a day goes by without hearing at least one story about Twitter on the news. The original intent behind Twitter was to help people keep their friends and family informed about what they were doing. Educators have taken Twitter to an entirely new level. We have started using this microblog for [...]
