Last weekend I began play around with LiveBinders. LiveBinders allows you to organize web pages, images, PDFs and documents into a virtual binder complete with tabs and sub-tabs. I had a little trouble getting started as I did not know you could add text to a page – such as the main tab pages, and how to create sub-tabs. I guess I should have watched the tutorials first. 🙂 I also noticed that in firefox I was not able to…
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…
The following is a post by Becky St. Onge who is a fellow collaborator and learner. Aesop proclaimed “In union there is strength.” Margaret Meade said we should “never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Vince Lombardi maintained that “individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” For centuries…
Jen Wagner has tagged me with the Wordle meme begun by Lee Kolbert. I was also tagged by Martha Thornburgh. This works well with Teach 42‘s posts Day 27 and Day 28 of 30 days to being a better blogger where he referenced Lee’s meme. So here goes. I first used my RSS feeds, I have 4 feeds and I found it interesting that they produced different Wordles. One seemed to only show my first few posts about the MassCUE…
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…
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.