Posted in Ramblings on Apr 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
Now, this is NOT my usual type of post, but things have been a little crazy ’round my life these days and I thought I’d share something that made me giggle today. I hate email forwards, but I have to admit that I’m glad my friend sent this one to me - just had to […]
Posted in Blogging, Ramblings, Teaching on Mar 30th, 2008 5 Comments »
Well, it’s the end of spring break for me and I’m heading back to “on-site” work tomorrow (Monday). I’ve been working (the kind of work I adore) this whole time while enjoying being at home and with my family - reality will hit and hit hard when I have to drive 45 minutes to school […]
Posted in Blogging, Ramblings, Research, twitter on Mar 27th, 2008 13 Comments »
Well, the numbers are in for the age surveys I posted a few days ago!
Twitter Age
The results were very close to my estimate (37) of the average age of my Twitter network (right now I have 378 followers, although it was less when I first started the survey). I had an amazing 226 responses (and […]
Posted in Blogging, Ramblings, twitter on Mar 24th, 2008 3 Comments »
I’m really interested in finding out the average age of my twitter network and overall personal/professional learning network. Why? Well, at 27, I seem to be the youngest person in my network and I’m really interested in finding out why. Am I naturally attracted to socializing and learning from *my elders*? Or is it as […]
Posted in Ramblings on Mar 23rd, 2008 5 Comments »
I just saw a tweet from @krusk about this Newsweek article from 1995 - “The Internet? Bah!” by Clifford Stoll. You have to read it for yourself to really enjoy it, but here’s the bit that made me giggle the hardest:
“Then there’s cyberbusiness. We’re promised instant catalog shopping–just
point and click for great deals. We’ll order […]
Posted in Ramblings, Teaching on Mar 21st, 2008 7 Comments »
A few days ago Aaron Strout of Mzinga tweeted about wanting to have job candidates apply through social media and I responded immediately with “DO IT”! Well, he has his jobs posted now and this is a must-see for all educators - this is the world for which we’re preparing our students - can anyone truly […]
Posted in Ramblings on Mar 18th, 2008 2 Comments »
@ijohnpederson just tweeted this to me:
and I couldn’t stop myself from blogging about it immediately. This article is a must-read - “We Have the Technology to Change” by Michelle Levesque. Michelle says (referring to her new hobby of programming in high school):
“No one explained to me that my new hobby was much more common among men […]
Posted in Ramblings on Mar 16th, 2008 5 Comments »
This is a local issue, but one that is being played out across the US, so I thought it fit here. My district will be holding a referendum on April 1st that will determine the entire future of the district and the education of our children. While I don’t currently live in the district, I […]
Posted in Ramblings, Teaching on Mar 11th, 2008 9 Comments »
I know this won’t be popular, but isn’t there some value to “because I said so” as a response to a question? As a parent? As a teacher? As a boss? I know all the stuff out there on giving reasons for everything and respecting roles and setting the tone for respect, but isn’t there […]
Posted in Ramblings, twitter on Mar 7th, 2008 4 Comments »
I couldn’t resist writing this and please note that I balanced my posts well today - only 1 out of 2 mentioned Twitter
And speaking of that, take a minute and read Kelly Christopherson’s excellent post “Go to the source“ where he worries “that the gap between the “users” and “non-users” will widen because […]
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