Posts Tagged ‘ Blogs ’

0There are so many great things happening at our school right now that I find I don’t have time to blog about one before I’m deep into another project with another teacher. All that I know is we’re having some fun! Let’s start in Mr. Jessee’s room where I wanted to share a great Google...
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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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0I’ve spend the past week doing a lot of blog reading. With 40+ students taking the grad course here at ISB and another 8 that I’m teaching for PSU makes for a lot of blog reading in a week. I predicted this year would be about building value with these tools and that I...
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0Cross-posted on Always Learning This weekend I discovered TweetDeck and I am totally in love! (Yes, I am late to the party with this one @JavaJive, Jeff showed it to me ages ago, but better late than never, right?). As you may know, I am obsessively organized (often mocked for the obscene amount of folders I...
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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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0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeaEczMry_4 You want to make them laugh while they give you their money. This is Andy Dorn’s approach. For IST’s latest Community and Service project, a Movember fundraiser for students in our sister school in Tibet, he created this promo video and shared it with our school community during both the elementary and secondary school...
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0Link by Link – Don’t Buy That Textbook, Download It Free – NYTimes.com My friend and fellow UTT contributor David Gran sent me a link to an article he knew would strike home with me. This NYT piece looks at the phenomenon of the free, online textbook, which recently has emerged in several academic areas...
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0Asia Sentinel – Malaysia Ponders How to Handle its Bloggers Anyone who questions the influence bloggers can have on political, social and economic sentiments should read this article. Malaysia (where freedom of the internet has been embraced due to the government’s desire to make Malaysia an information technology hub attractive to foreign investors) has begun...
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0The conversation that has been going on around Twitter both here and here has lead to other e-mails and discussions around building networks and specifically how do you get people to comment on your blog? The problem is….you can’t make people comment. What you can do is write compelling blog posts that make people want...
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