Before heading to ASW, I was nervous. Breaking into a new field is never easy and I was uncertain what to expect as I met the people who I’ve been reading and tweeting for the past six months. What I found was a community that was tight knit, but at the same time interested in …
Twitter has been blowing up because the No Child Left Behind Act is turing 10 on Saturday. Education Week has put together a powerful compilation piece that relays the feelings surrounding this controversial legislation. So where has this piece of legislation that promised so much left us? Behind. And actually that’s exactly what it was intended to …
After my post yesterday about the influence of twitter for the affiliates, I was reminded that it is in the tension and friction that not only do people feel engaged, but their learning is deep. So to answer my own question, it’s not unreasonable for mobile users to be expect to click a link on …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
