Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged Twitter
803 Downloads to cap off a week to remember
Jun 17th
(Prepare yourself it’s a long one!)
(Read to the bottom to find out why it took me over 12 hours to post this reflection!) What a week this has been and with the launch of the book today, it’s made it all the more amazing of a week.
As of this writing, Reach was downloaded 801 times today. My networks and communities once again surpassed my expectations. As I told my wife yesterday, I’d be tickled if 200 people downloaded the Free PDF. To have 800+ do it in the first day alone is just mind boggling. As I say in the book, More >
Mining Twitter for Content
May 11th
Take 14 minutes out of your day today or tomorrow and watch this video:
Web 3.0 from Kate Ray on Vimeo.
Is it sad that this excites me?
I love Tim Berners-Lee’s last statement:
“If we end up building all the things I can imagine, we’ve failed.”
This coming from the “father of the World Wide Web”.
The video really talks about now that we have all this information on the web how do we organize it and make it work for us?
In the past week I’ve radically shifted the way I use Twitter, that more closely aligns with this new semantic web approach. It’s been an eye More >
Bring Buzz to Edu Apps
Feb 17th
Google 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 been looking for in schools ever sense Twitter came out.
I’m hoping that Google brings Buzz to the Education Apps soon. There are a lot of schools (including mine) that are embracing Google Apps and taking a serious look at using the set of tools as the default More >
A blog post, a tweet, a connection
Sep 4th
I have to share this story with you if for no other reason….I’ve shared it with anyone that would listen to me at school today. I believe this story shows the power of:
1. What can happen when we allow students to be “out there”.2. What happens when our teachers become networked and can bring that network to their students.3. That through connections educational possibilities are endless!
This couldn’t have come at a better time with Clint H leaving a comment on my last post about a conversation he had with his IT Director:
He has some very persuasive arguments for his ‘walled garden’ approach More >
EdubloggerCon 2009 Reflections
Jun 28th
Last year I was pretty critical of EduBloggerCon. For me it was too big, too scripted, and…well…you can read the post.
This year….smaller, deeper, and more thoughtful. Exactly what I was hoping for and personally what I need to push my own thinking. It was one of those days where you went to one but watch others via Twitter. You wanted to go to all the sessions…and in some ways you did via the conversations that happened between the actual sessions.
Last year I said it was too big…around 250 people. This year around 75 people….not a bad size.
Last year it was to More >
Get Twitter off the web and on your desktop
Jun 1st
Yes, I have once again changed my Twitter Desktop App…and yes I’ll probably change again in the future. That’s part of why Twitter is so much fun. You get to explore, try new ways of looking at your data, your searches, your stream of information.
Twitter is a playground to me. It has been since I started using it in 2007 (man that seems so long ago!). It’s been fun to watch it grow over the past couple of years and hit the mainstream in the past couple of months. I’m excited to see where it goes, but in the mean time More >
Networked Thinking
Mar 27th
All three of my presentation here at ETC09 continue to hit on the point of creating a PLN you can trust and find ways to use. It’s so powerful…..but it’s hard to explain just how powerful of a learning tool it is without having people really get in there and get their hands dirty.
So today I found a new use for my PLN. Every time I try something this like I’m amazed at the help and response I continue to receive from educators around the world who are willing to jump and help out at the drop of a hat.
So here’s More >
Connecting People or Connecting Content
Mar 25th
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 and how we use it to connect. Maybe this is all for nothing…but I can’t stop thinking about it.
When it comes to building social networks or online communities I think it’s clear to understand what you are and who you are More >
