Developing the Global Student

A few months ago Julie Lindsay inadvertently started a new meme about a day in the life of a global educator. Silvia Tosolino joined in and tagged me way back when, and somehow, I never found time to post. But, lately I’ve been thinking about that meme… I have a pretty good idea of what…

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Keeping Up

A few weeks ago, Kelly Christopherson posted an interesting thread, Walking the Talk, on the Classroom 2.0 Ning forums asking whether the teachers who promote web 2.0 tools are actually using the tools themselves. My response was: Absolutely! Doing these type of things myself is the only way that I can truly understand how they…

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All A Twitter

I have finally joined the Twitterverse. Not that I ever think I have anything that interesting to say, but I do like the community atmosphere, the constant sharing of great websites and blog posts, the real time updates from my friends, and the instant gratification of instant messaging with dozens of people at once. Who…

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The truth about tagging

I am definitely inspired by Lisa’s kids and I really do want to tag my posts, but I just can’t seem to get into the routine. Clearly, I need to either: a) be convinced that it is absolutely essential to the blogging experience. What exactly does tagging do for me? or b) find an easier…

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YackCasting: Yet another use for YackPack

Thanks to Clay’s constant innovation and creative thinking, we discovered another excellent use for YackPack today. Clay wanted to be able to record live conversations using YackPack (to get around the user limit restrictions when recording with Skype). So, today we tested out recording a live conversation with YP and then publishing the conversation. Basically…

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