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Getting to know you
This week, I am teaching a writing course at Oakbrook Prep! Being a teacher without a classroom means that occasionally you get the opportunity to inhabit other classrooms for awhile. This is one of my favorite times because not only does it give me a new perspective, but I get to meet new teachers and new students. I …
Stopping and Going Forward
This morning, I am participating in the service to honor graduates of high school, college and graduate school. When you participate in these kinds of events, it inevitably draws up memories of your own graduations. It makes me think how important it is to create times, especially as we get older, to stop and remember …
Connecting via Social Media
Really enjoying our conversations about Facebook, Twitter and blogging! Hope these conversatons continue!
Blogs I Like
It’s always hard for me to begin the conversation about blogging with people. When they ask me what I write about, I have to say, “I write a lot about education and just things that I read that I want to talk about.” It’s not a science. It’s not a formula. It’s just me and …
No Quiet Time
A peak inside the life of a teacher: The reality is that most of us who work in education definitely do not have quiet lives. Depending on the level you teach, you may have a group of students following you down the hallway at any given time. Being an educator is a great way to …
Is Facebook worth it?
There is much debate as to whether Facebook is worth the $38 shares that it is selling as of today. So what is about this company that is so intriguing to potential investors? Certainly, it is interesting that a Social Media site, initially to just be a time waster, is bringing over $1 billion in profits every …
Connecting via Social Media
As Sam Harrelson and I gear up for our presentation on Saturday on Connecting via Social Media, we have both been confronted with the question, “Where do we begin?” Do we start with the professional benefits that we have both experienced via Social Media? Do we tout the way that connecting to other professionals from …
Top-tier buy-in
The fact that Harvard, Stanford and MIT have bought in should only give us more pause as to why we haven’t: But once an Ivy League university does it, then an innovative practice can be validated. Perhaps online instruction did not look so hot to many professors until MITx, the university’s new online learning program, …