aaahhhhh……I sit here in the open air lounge of the Magellan Resort, a soft breeze is blowing off the ocean as I over look the pool below and out across the bay to three islands. It’s gonna be a wonderful sunset tonight. I’m telling you overseas conferences are really hard….I mean it. 🙂 I’m continuing to think about the Web […]
I leave tomorrow for the EARCOS Teachers Conference (Twitter hash and web tag #ETC09) where I’ll be giving four presentations. My first one is on Networks and Communities and although my Twitter Network has pointed out to me this is not a new presentation for myself…I do feel like there is something different. I’ve pushing myself to think deeper about […]
A comment left by Dan Christian yesterday on my post about the changing landscape of blogging. Has me back here thinking about my job as an educational technologist. First I think we need to understand how I view my job and what I think the job of an educational technologist should include. First and foremost we are educators. Our job […]
What? My Technorati Authority rating is down to 188? Wait? How? It was at 198 just hours ago? To make matters worse it was at 251 in June. What happened? Where did all the links go? Don’t worry…I have a theory…here me out. First of all please do not think that I am all hung up on my ranking within […]
Just finished up a full day at UNIS-Hanoi and thinking about where the conversations focused today. I spent the day talking with groups of teachers; Math/Science, Languages, Humanities, etc. We talked about my opening session and then got into some ideas on what learning looks like in a 1:1 tablet program that they have launched this year…how does it change […]
What does this mean? When a News Agency uses Twitter to release breaking news. And they are following some 1500 people. What does this mean about gathering the news? Have we once again collapsed the time of when an event is happening and when news break? I keep thinking about how I could have used Twitter when we had an […]
I had an idea the other day to use Twitter to get news coming directly from the Sichuan Province. I had just learned about twitterlocal.net a website that will track the twitter users coming from a specific location. So I went to twitterlocal and searched for Sichuan. I took a look at the feed and go figure everything was in […]
We all know what happens when you get administrators that understand this Web 2.0 stuff. Shift happens! Andy Torris a good friend of mine, fellow Gourmet Geek, and oh yeah Deputy Superintendent at our school has the wheels a spinning on what Web 2.0 can mean for a school community. We had a great conversation starter today. What Andy and […]
Last week while at the Second Life ISTE social hour someone brought up Twitter and “I don’t get it.” So I took it upon myself to try and explain what makes Twitter so….should I say addicting. I tried…and failed horribly, but it has had me thinking these past couple days, what is it about Twitter that makes it so interesting. […]
So people often ask me what is Twitter and why do you twit? Well I think theartguy found it yesterday: Time for bed. I’ll “see” you in the morning, fellow lurkers in this virtual teacher’s lounge! When I read this twit, it hit me. This is what twitter has become for many…for us I think. A virtual teacher’s lounge were […]