Posted in Community, Daraja Academy, Networking, RSS, Twitter on Mar 16th, 2009 2 Comments »
The more we begin to use tools like Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites as part of our regular means of conversation, communication, and connection the more creative uses for these tools each of us will find for reaching out and connecting to more and more people. Below is a brief example of something [...]
Posted in Blogging, Community, Twitter on Mar 4th, 2009 1 Comment »
This is why I blog and twitter and facebook and flickr and youtube and all that jazz. I have a deep faith in the power of human beings to get togther and solve the world’s problems through a shared understanding that if we just sit and understand each other, the world is not as complicated [...]
Posted in Twitter on Feb 11th, 2009 2 Comments »
Funny Twitter Story: I am sitting in my windowless classroom, catching up on PLN work, lesson planning, and web-surfing when I see this:
Remembering that it was beautiful out only a few hours earlier, I run outside to find that he is right; a truly apocalyptic scene looms just outside my window. [...]
Posted in Collective Learning, Flickr, Networking, Power of Web 2.0, Twitter on Dec 12th, 2008 3 Comments »
Educators often talk about inquiry-based learning. We are always trying to inspire students to ask essential questions and find ways to answer their inquiries themselves, using innovative methods and new digital technologies. Find and build networks we tell them. Use the power of the new Web is our mantra.
Readers of this blog may have noted [...]
Posted in Art, Community, Power of Web 2.0, Twitter, Writing on Dec 11th, 2008 4 Comments »
Earlier this evening, I was trying to get more out of my social networks by engaging in more artistic collaborative projects. I hatched the idea for the “live” poem. The idea is simple:
Send out a request on Twitter for participants.
Create a Google Document.
Find an image from Flickr (Make sure to pick one from the Creative [...]
Posted in Networking, Twitter on Nov 15th, 2008 6 Comments »
I just read a great blog post by Jason Chambers, an international educator I recently met at Learning 2.008 in Shanghai, in which he says
One of the problems with the modern ability to publish is that if you’re going to choose to publish a poetic journey through your each and every thought, then you may [...]
