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 …
As I share my family Christmas traditions with others, I am often met with a confusing look and the question, “Now how did that get started?” You don’t think about how different your family traditions of beliefs sound to others until you try to start explaining it. I’ve had the same feeling in trying to …
If you are continuing to use Blogger as your blogging platform, you should consider that you don’t own your own blog. If you try to customize by using html coding, you’ll run into this: If you take a look at your code, you’ll notice that it looks somewhat like regular HTML and CSS, but also …
In my church history class last night, we were discussing the Council of Chalcedon. The 27 tenets that the council concluded were important were all in response to what had already happened. They were already behind and their decisions were already out dated. If you are trying to implement internet policies and acceptable use policies …
Many teachers (and professors from my experience!) are troubled and paralyzed by the mobile mystery. What do we do with all of these students who have cell phones? Do we demand that they keep them in their locker? Do we put a basket out in our classes and take them up? Do we confiscate them …
Sam Harrelson has been blogging about the way that mobile devices impacted Cyber Monday sales. Turns out that mobile devices aren’t only impacting the world of marketing. They are also increasing literacy development in children: The research, to be published in the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning next month, found evidence of a “significant contribution …
Learning to use online forums, be they social network services like MySpace and Facebook, blogs, or wikis is not a sexily contemporary add-on to the curriculum – it’s an essential part of the literacy today’s youth require for the world they inhabit. I hear teachers and parents complain about receiving emails and text message that …
As a Twitter user, I find myself hoping to be retweetable. I hope that I say something or find a resource that someone might find interesting enough to retweet. You might say that’s not the reason to use Twitter and that’s not my main reason for using Twitter by any means. Twitter provides instant, free …
Actually, that’s a myth: ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand! When an ostrich senses danger and cannot run away, it flops to the ground and remains still, with its head and neck flat on the ground in front of it. The ostrich, the largest and heaviest bird, are powerful creatures and yet when they …
But these stories don’t mean anything without someone to tell them to I think Brandi Carlile has it right. The stories of our lives: what we’ve experienced; what we’ve seen don’t mean anything without someone to listen. So here’s to you! Thanks for listening to my stories and my ramblings.
