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Unintended Consequences
Today’s post is a presentation I’m giving in just an hour and a half about social networking. I haven’t added all the cites yet, but this will update automatically. Enjoy! Update: Here is a list of the...
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I can haz grammar, plz
On the same day as a report comes out that educators should harness txting to teach kids to write comes this post about how awful writing is on the Internet. Admittedly, some of the text quote in that...
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Spreading Myself Thin
I mentioned the other day on Twitter that I was spread out across too many social networks. I have Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, the blog, a Ning I’m participating in. It’s all too much. But each...
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What social media I use
Earlier this week, Jackie talked about using Twitter and how it’s been going. She finds Facebook more “conversational” for her, but Twitter still has its purposes. Obviously, I’ve been reinvesting my...
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Disconnected
The last two summers, I went to several conferences. I wanted to learn more and to connect with people in my new field. This summer, aside from edcamp in May, I went to nothing. There are two or three...
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Automation only goes so far
Pretty much this entire school year, I’ve been trying to come up with a good way to syndicate content to my school web site for my colleagues. I’ve tried various iftt recipes. I’ve gone back to...
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Why I think social media is important
Many people think social media is a waste of time. Or if they don’t think that, they think that maybe there’s value in it, but they just haven’t made the time to really engage with it. They often...
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Why Connecting is Cool
This week I’ve participated in two social media events that have inspired me and restored my faith in humanity. Along with Andrew Carle, I help moderate the #makered Twitter chat on Tuesday evenings,...
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Digital Connections: Reality, Addiction, or Something Else?
Over the last couple of days, I’ve spontaneously bumped into several conversations about “being online.” People are wondering, as they have since online was a thing, whether being online is a good...
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And we pause for the World Cup
English: Slovenia – USA at FIFA World Cup 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) At 4:00 yesterday, I settled in to the couch with a beer and some chips and dip to watch the US play Belgium. Spoiler alert, we...
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Tabs
The invention of tabs for web browsers has been one of my favorite things that’s happened in the browser world. However, I’m notorious for having a bunch of tabs open at once. I currently have 20,...
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Year End Review
Being in the digital world for me has meant having access to material from the past year ( or past almost 10 years). I’ve often used this blog to settle arguments about what we were doing 5 years ago...
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