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Tweets on 2008-03-01

@taylorteacher i’ve gotten that a lot on twitter homepage #
@garageflowers I think I need to find some initials - any suggestions? All i’ve got is BS, and i think that wouldn’t look too great #
@peneli people are there, but it’s not very active. I think i’ve updated mine once #
@dmcordell oh no - blogger [...]

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Background: I received an email today from a student about her new blog she created, her love of technology, and asking for advice on her blog. I responded to her, because it’s polite and I want to encourage her. I then tweeted how happy I was that a student was inspired by classroom blogging, which [...]

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BlogBackupr

UPDATE 
Frank alerted me to the fact that when he tried registering his blog it actually asked him for his blog login information. Something happened between the time I registered this blog and he tried doing his, as this did NOT happen to me when I registered Reflection 2.0. When I just tried registering a classroom [...]

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After my post earlier today about web app outages and issues, here are some “explanations” and further reading:
Twitter
As I’m writing this, I’m having major issues with Twitter and twhirl (desktop client for twitter) updating properly……………….sigh.
Here is some info about Twitter’s wackiness on Wednesday night:
Sue Water’s post about her Twitter account being hijacked
The Twitter blog’s post on [...]

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Bringing You in From Afar

Just wanted to mention some new things on Reflection 2.0 that you would NOT know about if you are reading this in an aggregator or email!

I just added a LinkedIn button on my sidebar that brings you to my LinkedIn profile
A new feature from Google Chat that allows you to chat with me directly from my [...]

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Rookie mistakes - live and learn. That’s the story of my day! I started out with my wiki project this morning and quickly encountered a MAJOR problem that I should have been aware of. No excuses, I should have researched this more fully before embarking on the project. I had the entire class (in 9 groups) [...]

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Singapore Revisited

In my post last week about teacher training here in the U.S. and abroad, I quoted a TIME magazine article about practices in Singapore. One of my readers, John Larkin, made these excellent comments on the post:
“Hi Kate
I once taught part time at Singapore’s National Institute of Education after work at Nanyang Technological University. I [...]

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I have been asked on twitter and various other places for links to this and links to that, and I just thought I’d make it easier for those of you who wish to follow my research on blogging, social networking, and other web tools. I don’t always have time to blog about the information I [...]

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I *Heart* Teaching

Today was another one of those days that made me really happy to do what I do.  Almost happy enough to not mind getting stuck on snowy, slippery roads trying to climb the mile-long hill leading up to my house on the way home from school (in my Honda Civic)  
Last week, a colleague [...]

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Geek Tip #2

Ok, here’s something I learned this weekend that is going to make my life MUCH easier when composing and editing blog posts and anything in moodle.  (Very possible that everyone else in the world already knew this and I’m the last to know, but that’s ok.  We all have to learn sometime!)  Thanks much to [...]

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