Thanks to Skip Z for sharing, here is my Twitter mosaic. I once took the time to print up photos of my Learning Network to make it easier to explain to those who I work with who you all are. This is so much easier. Get your twitter mosaic here.
There has bee a lots of discussion about what it means to be literate in the 21st Century and if there is such a thing as 21st century literacy. Ryan Bretag’s The Great Literacy Debate, Ben Gray’s post 21st century confusion and 21st century clarification. There have been discussions on twitter and plurk and these lead to Will Richardson coordinating an illuminate discussion of the topic. I have never been great with semantics but I do know there are many…
Last night I upgraded to wordpress 2.7. I have never had trouble upgrading before but there is a first time for everything and as the saying goes, tech happens. First thing make a back up – done with no trouble. Next begin uploading what I need to my hosting server. This is where trouble began. I could FTP some files but not others. I would receive a notice that I was not an authorized user and did not have rights. …
Teach 42 shared a video the Networked Student in Plain English. I think this is also an excellent example of the networked teacher. This illustrates very well how I work within my learning network and how we can continue to be life long learners in any area that we have interest. I believe teachers need to be similarly network to enhance their learning and to learn how to effectively use these tools to support student learning. I will be sharing…
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…
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…
Steve Dembo has issued a challenge 30 days to being a better blogger. I have been neglecting my blog of late and hope to participate in this challenge. Today is Day one, fixing up the about page. I had updated mine a few months ago but will updating today. Maybe I should place a note on my calender to update the page every few months.