Merianna Harrelson

I am the Pastor of Garden of Grace United Church of Christ in Columbia, SC and the Director of Consulting at Harrelson.Co. I am always looking for a good cup of coffee and a great book.

Be Yourself

There was a trend on Twitter identified not by a hash tag, but rather a yellow sign placed in the bottom left corner of your Twitter profile picture that looked a little like this:  I understand that this provides a continuity and a marketing symbol for the movement, but the Save our Schools March was …

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Unlimited Access

Should unlimited access between teachers and students through social media be restricted? School administrators acknowledge that the vast majority of teachers use social media appropriately. But they also say they are increasingly finding compelling reasons to limit teacher-student contact. School boards in California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia …

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7 Reasons Not to Use Blogger in Your Classroom

1. You are a professional. You need a professional blogging platform. 2. Flash Player slows loading time. Each second that your blog takes to load loses you readers. 3. Flash doesn’t work on IOS devices, which means that you are losing readers that depend heavily on mobile devices for their reading (like me!). 4. It’s …

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It’s time.

I’ve been talking for a while about the potential shift that public schools are about to experience. It was based on a gut feeling and a lot of reading. I’ve been misinterpreted as saying that I don’t believe in public schools, but I do. I just see what’s coming. I know that if teachers and …

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