Posts Tagged ‘ Twitter ’

4Google 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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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 am at the OACAC conference and will be facilitating discussions are web 2.0 and college admissions. Luckingly, over at MASHABLE,  Vadim Lavrusik has a great article exploring how universities are using social netwrking: Instead of focusing their attention on promoting information to mainstream media, some university public affairs offices are using the power of social media to...
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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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0Cross posted on Always Learning In January, I shared a list of international school teachers (those teaching outside of their home country in a school catering to expatriate families) on Twitter (or blogging). In the last few months, even more teachers have added themselves to the Google Form, so I thought I would do a...
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0Can learning communities in the classroom find similar success online? Yesterday, I saw how two teachers at IST, Sam and Chad, create learning communities with their grade 4 students. They invited a group of teachers from BISS, Rego, TIS, and IST to attend their upcoming EARCOS Teachers’ Conference 2009 workshop presentation here at IST. It is...
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0Cross posted on Always Learning A few weeks before our semester break, I wrote a post called International School Teachers Connect! in the hopes of discovering more international school teachers (those teaching outside of their home country in a school catering to expatriate families) on Twitter (or blogging). Amazingly, within just a few days dozens of...
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0 Your votes are needed. The US election is done, so is Dancing with the Stars and American Idol is weeks away. So why not spend some time supporting your favorite Twitter friends by nominating them for a Shorty Award. You can nominate as many people as you like in any number of categories (humor,...
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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=ddO9idmax0o
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