I took some time the last week to organizing my digital life, really clean it up. It can get a bit unruly and combersome. I gather information from twitter, plurk, google+ and my rss feeds in my reader. I post occasionally in them as well. I feel disconnected, disorganized and distracted. I spent time looking for one tool that would let me collect and share from a single place. But nothing seems to do it all. I thought about…
Its been cool and damp on Cape Cod the last few days so I thought I would take the opportunity to work on material for a workshop, Web Literacy: Researching the Web for a Different Perspective, I am facilitating in July. There is a section of the workshop that covers how search engines work. This was pretty straightforward a few years back, before social media and behavioral advertising became main stream. At a basic level search engines ranked material on the…
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.
I was driving from the Cape to NJ today and had an interesting conversation while at a McDonald’s along 95. Not sure how it got started, we were exchanging pleasantries and such and it turned to what we did (he is a retired accountant, I am an educator) and it then turned to education. And did he have an opinion of education! “The purpose of education is to produce workers.” I suggested that it is an outcome of education but…
The pre-conference activities of EduCon 2.0 began Friday afternoon. It started with a tour of SLA, our hosts for this event. I was unable to attend as my flight was canceled and had to get another later in the day. I was able to catch up with everyone one at the Franklin Institute for the opening reception and IMAX movie. I met up with my roommate Lisa Durff (Edith Halderman –SL) whom I never met face to face to, I…