Off the Grid
February 16, 2008 by Kate Olson
I’m heading ‘up north’ this weekend to visit family and will be off the grid for a few days and I’m honestly looking forward to that - I’m at the point with my networking that I almost need to be FORCED to stay away!
Here’s some reading to keep you busy until I’m back 
“Is MySpace Good for Society? A Freakonomics Quorum” - New York Times
I’ve also added more resources on my Parent Workshop wiki if you are interested in social networking for teens and the parent perspective.
The Budget-Minded Laptop - Technology in the Middle
Schools of 2020 - Vicki Lyons’ presentation wiki for the Western Wisconsin Education Conference session I attended yesterday. Lots of good resources here. Vicki is the director of IT at the School District of La Crosse, where I teach.
The Power of Naive Questions - Hoovers Business Insight Zone - I was referred to this by Diane Cordell on twitter the other night when I said that I felt comfortable asking the “dumb questions” on twitter because it’s part of my personal learning network and that’s the PURPOSE of learning networks!
Enjoy the reading!
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Perdonad que escriba aquí, que quizás no sea el sitio adecuado, pero es la única manera de contactar con vosotros.
Soy un profesor de Magisterio de la Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, en Toledo (España). Estoy realizando actualmente una investigación para poder completar mi tesis. Trata sobre la utilización de los Blogs en Educación, o como prefiero llamarlo, sobre los Edublogs.
Para poder llegar a algunas conclusiones generalizables necesitaría que colaborarais conmigo. Y es para esto para lo que solicito vuestra ayuda. En principio simplemente se trataría de rellenar un brevísimo cuestionario por parte del profesor creador del Blog y de sus alumnos/as valorando la influencia de su edublog en algunos aspectos educativamente importantes.
Por favor, si están dispuestos a colaborar, les ruego me escriban un email a JoseFrancisco.Duran@uclm.es para que les pueda enviar en un archivo adjunto el cuestionario y luego me lo devuelvan relleno.
Muchísimas gracias.
En Toledo tenéis un amigo (y aprovecho para invitaros a visitar esta preciosa ciudad).
Un abrazo.
Note - I am NOT fluent in spanish! I took a minute to translate the above comment in AltaVista Babel Fish Translator and here is what it came up with………..helped me get at least the general idea
“You pardon that it writes here, that is not perhaps the suitable site, but is the only way to contact with you. I am professor of Teaching of the University of Castile Mancha, in Toledo (Spain). I am making at the moment an investigation to be able to complete my thesis. It treats on the use of the Blogs in Education, or as I prefer to call it, on the Edublogs. In order to be able to reach some generalizables conclusions it would need that you collaborated with me. And it is for this for which I ask for your aid. In principle simply one would be to fill up a brief questionnaire on the part of the creative professor of the Blog and his alumnos/as being valued the influence of his edublog in some educative important aspects. Please, if they are arranged to collaborate, them request writes an email to me to JoseFrancisco.Duran@uclm.es so that the questionnaire can send them in an attached file and soon me they give back it stuffed. Very many thanks. In Toledo you have a friend (and I take advantage of for invitaros to visit this precious city). A hug.”
Glad to have you back ;0
Kate — I’m glad you liked my “Naive Questions” post — I’ll be writing more in this vein over time, because I think these sorts of questions transcend the challenges of business, education, personal effectiveness, and so on.
I’ve just started following you on Twitter, and I’ll tell my sister (former 8th grade teacher, now elem. librarian, curious re 2.0) to do the same.
Cheers for now.