A comment left by Dan Christian yesterday on my post about the changing landscape of blogging. Has me back here thinking about my job as an educational technologist.First I think we need to understand how I view my job and what I think the job of an...
Topics: Blogs, conversations, learning, networks, Twitter

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What? My Technorati Authority rating is down to 188? Wait? How? It was at 198 just hours ago? To make matters worse it was at 251 in June.What happened? Where did all the links go?Don’t worry…I have a theory…here me out.First of all...
Topics: Blogs, conversations, Twitter

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This is a must watch video for every educator. In grades 4 and above educators should then turn around and use these when teaching any lesson where students are researching information.These…right here….are the new literacy skills that...
Topics: google, search, Video

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Just finished up a full day at UNIS-Hanoi and thinking about where the conversations focused today. I spent the day talking with groups of teachers; Math/Science, Languages, Humanities, etc. We talked about my opening session and then got into some ideas.
Topics: collaboration, community, facebook, google, Twitter

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In about 20 minutes I’ll be in a taxi on my way to the airport to visit the United Nations International School in Hanoi. In preparing for the conference I’ve been up dating a couple of my slides and like to use Google as an example of what...
Topics: education, google

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