27Google 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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Posts Tagged ‘ Twitter ’
Bring Buzz to Edu Apps
A blog post, a tweet, a connection
0I 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...
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EdubloggerCon 2009 Reflections
0 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...
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Get Twitter off the web and on your desktop
0Yes, 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...
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Networked Thinking
0All 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...
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Connecting People or Connecting Content
0aaahhhhh……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...
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RSS is about content, Twitter is about people
0I 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...
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Don’t try to control it
0A 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...
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