Many people say they do not have enough time to learn something new. I usually say I don’t have enough time to clean the bathroom, however, I just ran in there and scrubbed the basins in about two minutes, and thought of this post while I did it. You don’t have to set [...]
When you are responsible for faculty development, a lot of things can get in the way of actual transfer of learning. You can bribe them to attend workshops, but you can’t make them learn. Mini-grants, stipends and free food can get them in the door, but won’t make the material stick. To [...]
Remember that old question, “are you a leader, or a follower?” If you’re reading this, you are probably both. You probably have your own blog and follow many others. So what happens when we switch out of our natural roles as leaders or followers? In the vast blogosphere, there is plenty [...]
In the world of education, there are borders that many are unwilling to cross. There are borders between academic institutions, grade levels and content areas. There are borders between faculty, students and administration. Even more borders exist when you start factoring in private Vs. public education. What many people don’t realize, [...]
I’m not talking about what I have on while I’m typing. I’m talking about my naked blog. Yes, it is plain. I am quite aware that I am missing all the bells and whistles. I don’t have a blogroll, digg and del.icio.us buttons. The Google ads are missing and I’m not advertising any awards. Maybe [...]
I have been observing an online community lately that is just going down the tubes. They have an excellent platform and concept, but very weak management and community moderation. I see press releases that they’ve raised millions in funding, but I don’t know what they are spending it on.
Here’s a quote from a [...]
…I learned from following (stalking) people on Twitter. I don’t want this to become another Twitter-centric post, so I will state up front that my intention is to share how long it took to become proficient in Web 2.0 technology, the steps I took, and what I could have done better. I began my [...]
There has been a lot of buzz about Twitter (on Twitter) this week. Maybe Twitter just is what it is and we don’t need to analyze it. Maybe we’re a community of educators used to broken tools, so we are constantly looking for workarounds. Twitter has been useful to us the last six months or [...]
I was invited to give a lunch presentation on Social Media at the NWCET Working Connections Faculty Institute. I did not want to give another boring PowerPoint presentation. I wanted to eliminate the stress of remembering to bring a laptop, CD-ROM, jump drive and paper handouts. I wanted attendees to simply enjoy the [...]
I did not plan to spend my day absorbed in Twitter, but I just could not resist the pull! I should have been working on my Social Networking presentation for the NWCET conference. I’ve now decided that I was doing just that. Here are some “tweets” from my first two hours spent [...]