4Brian Grenier wrote a blog post back in 2007 that I think I missed where he asks the question how do you write a blog post?
Miguel Guhlin just wrote a great post in response to Brian’s thoughts. In my COETAIL course yesterday we had a great discussion around how blogging was going for those...
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Random Thoughts
Blogging Process – Find Your Flow
Facebook, Privacy, and Cyber bullying
31Just returning from a full day of thinking and teaching starting with Saturday school and talking to some students who got in trouble for cyber bullying on Facebook. I love getting the opportunity to talk to students about their social world and continue to find it fascinating on their views of what they consider...
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My Google Chrome Extensions
28Last week Google Chrome updated itself on my MacBook and now allows Chrome extensions. I’ve almost completely moved over to Chrome as the speed of the browser just blows both Firefox and Safari away in my experience…and the way it handles gmail, gdocs, gwave, and the rest of G is just smooth. What’s been...
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Bring Buzz to Edu Apps
31Google Buzz has been out for a while now and has been slowly making its mark on the social-networking scene.
As I’ve been investigating Buzz (a.k.a. playing with it…but investigating sounds so much more important!) and how it changes social-networking, it hit me the other day how this might just be the communication tool I’ve...
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Proper typing out, thumb typing in
27Just as I’m having conversations again around why we should or shouldn’t teach typing in our schools technology has once again moved us into another typing realm. The thumb typing.
I’ve watched more videos than I care to count about the iPad (my thoughts here) and in a recent survey to our students here at...
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You mean the teacher still matters?
23Four great articles have come to light lately that point to research being done and what many of us in the Ed Tech community have been saying for a long time might just be on the horizon. That is that this technology stuff can improve education.
So let’s start at Mashable one of my favorite...
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The iPad: Not the Right Product for Education
17I’ve been reflecting the last couple days on Apple’s new iPad. The product that, before it’s announcement, some had claim would revolutionize education.
If it does…..it will be a shock to me.
I have nothing against Apple (I’m typing on a MacBook that I love), I just think this piece of hardware is not what we...
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Help a Newbie get to ISTE10
6Beth Still grabbed me at NECC in Washington D.C. this summer and introduced me to Richard Byrne who was attending his first NECC conference. We had a nice chat and Beth reminded me that Richard was here because of her Newbie Project.
She told me then and there she’d be hitting me up to...
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