Does anyone remember it? I honestly can’t, but realized this week that I have been taking it for granted. Before there was Twitter, I used chat, email, BBS’s and even an email pager with a QWERTY keyboard to keep conversation flowing while I observed meetings and presentations. I can’t imagine life without a Backchannel! Thursday [...]
Here’s my first REAL podcast on injenuity.com. It’s unedited, do be gentle on me!
I mention “Technology Task Force” in the podcast. The correct title is Technology Transformation Task Force.
I spent two hours in the hair salon today, and while I emerged looking a little too much like Snow White, I thoroughly enjoyed spending time with people who take life less seriously. I am so immersed in the world of educational technology, that I sometimes forget there are people out there who have no [...]
I don’t think I did a very good job of explaining the thinking process behind my Twitter experiment yesterday. I’ll try to do so now. When I first joined Twitter, I was in the middle of a research project. I needed information, lots of information, and in a short period of time. [...]
Twitter Karma couldn’t handle the task, so I went through all 303 people I was following and removed them. Although none showed on my list, it still said I was following 4! Before I was even done, Mark Wagner noticed something was up. Since he sent me a reply, I added him first! I added [...]
I had a crazy thought on my commute this morning. Well, I had many, but this is the first one I’m applying. I am going to try to rebuild my Twitter network and see if the dynamic changes. My hypothesis is that it won’t. I’m going to use Twitter Karma to stop following everyone. Then [...]
Friday I moved to a new office and it made a huge difference in the way I approached my work. Here’s the hallway outside my old office:
It was in a long building, with short hallways crossing it. There were only a few classrooms and I had to keep my door closed because of [...]
I posted on Twitter asking if anyone had suggestions for a blog topic today. @shareski was the first to respond with: @injenuity Here’s one: “How to eat chips, watch sports on TV and stay thin”. That should take up all your creative juices. While he may have been attempting to stump me [...]
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We talk a lot about Internet safety for kids. We protect them from sexual predators. We are beginning to scratch the surface of cyber-bullying. There are a few other considerations that do not receive as much attention. The first is the commercial nature of the Web and how it shapes our decisions as citizens and [...]