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Social Media Pressure? Don’t be a Zombie
As educators, we are finding the pressure to be part of many different social media products. “You should be on Twitter”. “Not on Google +? I’ll send you an invite.” Administrators look at the current mandates for Technology in the … Continue reading
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via thinketg.com In the last several months, Technology_Tim and I have explored services that will give us analytics about traffic to our wikis (Google Analytics) and involvement in Twitter (Buffer, Twopcharts, etc.). There has been a lot of data to … Continue reading
Organizing Content: Aggregate, Skim, Read, Analyze
“Know when to read at a pace of 100 words per second, 10 words per second, 1 word per second.” I wish I could remember the name of the person I’m quoting here. He was a professor at Michigan State … Continue reading
Contrived Complexity of Technologies
Some tasks are made needlessly difficult. Often in the name of asthetics others an overemphasis on control. Though I could use several examples of software, website design applications and hardware technologies to make my argument about the power trips of … Continue reading
RSA Animate – Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
via youtube.com This is a great presentation about the what actually motivates someone to perform better and have personal satisfaction. I really like how the use studies to prove that the traditional incentives of monetary rewards in the work place … Continue reading
21st century skills: Teaching or Learning
In Trent Baston’s June 2011 article for Campus Technology, “The Problem of “Pedagogy” in a Web2.0 Era”, he describes the difference between Pedagogy, or thinking about teaching, and learning. He emphasizes the importance of learning in this time of constant production of … Continue reading
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Taking Risks
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. ~Pablo Picasso I’ve been reading and listening to a lot of interviews lately from innovators and “geniuses” of our time. I’ve … Continue reading
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What does your Twitter presence say about you?
Today I’m working on cleaning my Twitter presence. I’ve been meaning to get who I’m following more in alignment with my Professional Learning needs and try to find people that can give me a unique perspective on technologies used in … Continue reading
Google @ EDU Seminar Reflections
Today I was at a google for education seminar to hear from Google’s education division and the stories of how UNCGreensboro and Chapel Hill-Carboro City Schools have transitioned. The punchline… it really is as easy and users are as satisfied … Continue reading
Creativity: How Do We Begin?
I’ve been focusing on the concept of content creation lately. It seems that the future of educaiton is dependent on a much healthier dose of creativity. Both student and teacher will need to be creating more content. Studies prove that … Continue reading
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