Seth’s Blog: Wondering around I stumbled on a great typo last night. “Staff in the lobby were wondering around…” Wandering around is an aimless waste of time. Wondering around, though, that sounds useful. Wondering why this product is the way it is, wondering how you can make the lobby more welcoming, wondering if your best customers are happily...
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Brian 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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BBC News – Mapping the growth of the internet A great interactive map that looks at the spread of Internet use around the world from 1998 – 2008.  tags: Internet, population Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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A couple of weeks ago teachers from around the world congregated at the American School of Bombay in India for the bi-annual ASB Unplugged 1-1 laptop conference. The week proved very helpful for teachers at schools either exploring the introduction of a 1-1 laptop program as well as for those of us who already...
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How Twitter in the Classroom is Boosting Student Engagement tags: Twitter, classroom, social-learning Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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My Google Chrome Extensions | The Thinking Stick tags: no_tag Extensions slow a browser down as it’s extra code that needs to be loaded, extra things sometimes running in the background, so I’m committed to keeping my extensions to a minimum and keep the Chrome speed a priority. So, here’s my basic package: Posted from Diigo. The...
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Last 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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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...
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Why Social Media Means Big Opportunities for Women Companies looking to reach women — whether as consumers, entrepreneurs, employees, or advocates — have an unprecedented opportunity through social media to engage them. For women, social media presents abundant opportunities to lead, effect change, innovate, and build relationships across sectors, locally, nationally, and globally. tags: women, technology,...
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If you haven’t read the following three articles from this past week in the New York Times, they are worth taking a few moments to take a look. Wifi Turns Arizona Rowdy Bus Ride Into Rolling Study Hall Do School Libraries Need Books? This debate style article has over 300 comments at the moment. It definitely...
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