I have been an active member in the DEN in SL since the beginning. It has been and continues to be one of the best parts of my learning network. The DEN in SL has been nominated as one of the ‘Best Educational Use of a Virtual World 2008′ by members of the eduverse. This is quite an honor as the other nominees have made great use of virtual environments as well. I recommend you visit EduBlogs Awards site and…
Thanks to Teach42 there are going to be a ton of post on, Why I Blog? This is the challenge for day 22 in the 30 Days to Being a Better Blogger. So here is my brief response, as I have posted this on a few times before as I reflected on why I keep blogging. I started blogging to learn how to blog I still blog to learn how to blog – that is why I am participating in…
Well today is day 10 of the 30 days to being a better blogger challenge. I have managed to keep up. Day 4 I updated my creative commons license. Day 5 I globalized my blog by adding a Google translation widget to my side bar. Day 6 I asked non-blog readers to look at my blog and give me feed back to its look, feel and ease of use. Day 7 I invited a colleague to be a guest blogger,…
Today is day 3 of the challenge 30 Days to being a better blogger. Today we were to thank those who linked to our blogs, helping make those connections that make the web the web. I thanked the 2 individuals who most recently linked to my blog. If you get the change please take a look at what they have to say. IMC Guy and To Learn Twice. Yesterday we were to add some tools to look at the statistics…
I received this information in a comment on another post. Passing it along. Dear Madam: I’m a senior in high school in the United States and I am doing a project about technology use in other countries. I am trying learn about the types of technology that have had the greatest impact on our world as a whole, over the last 10 years, instead of just seeing how technology plays a role in the United States. I am hoping that…
The following is just a brain dump as I try to develop some workshop material on Digital Citizenship and communicating. Just thought I would share. Back in the day when I started teaching I used a ditto machine, occasionally a copy machine, phone and the US Postal service. There were no mobile phones, texting, email, discussion boards, internet, among others. Somehow we managed. Now there is a large number of ways we can communicate and connect, to some this is…
Sometimes I just get overwhelmed. I have been feeling this way for a while. Looming, serious budget cuts at schools and across the state, too many committees to belong to, too many teachers not willing to step out of their comfort zone, a very busy family. I just feel tired. How to get out of the funk? Take stock of the good things going on. I just began teaching a new grad class – seems like a great group a…