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Re: No need to ask, “What did you do at school today?”

jparker119 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:59:37 -0000

This ideas sounds fabulous and informative for parents. Students when asked what did you do at school today usually respond "nothing.' Parents can see what their children are actually doing. My one concern would be privacy. Pictures and information are being posted on the Internet. I have students who names and pictures are not allowed to be posted. How can this situation be handled without embarassing the child who cannot be in the pictures?

Re: Teaching with Twitter

Sue — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:08:15 -0000

Great presentation - thanks for sharing. I have to do a session on twitter for staff and you have given me a lot of good ideas -thanks!

Re: 38 ways to find great edublogs

CNA Classes — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:02:10 -0000

Thanks for this. I've been looking for some .edu blogs as I'm aware of their importance in Google's eyes.

Re: How To Teach with … Twitter

Leesa Watego — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:09:20 -0000

Great resource. Perhaps an update too on Twitter Lists will be useful. I'm going to create a list for my student group to follow when semester comes around again. Its a comemrcial course for visual arts students.

Re: Blogging. What is it? How do you do it? What does it have to do with learning & teaching?

swingtrading — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:10:18 -0000

Interesting post. I have just bookmarked this at stumbleupon. Others no doubt will like it like I did.

Re: 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Education

Term Papers — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:48:15 -0000

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. While the service, itself, costs nothing to use, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees.

Re: 38 ways to find great edublogs

usedtrucks — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:55:15 -0000

Great stuff. I found a few blogs on there that I hadn't heard of before, so it's always nice to learn of new ones.

Re: How to Stop Blog Spam in Edu-Blogs

carolct — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:17:44 -0000

Well, if you don't put your web address in the comment , it won't show and you won't be spammed that way. Your email never shows. So you won't get spam that way either :)

Re: How to Stop Blog Spam in Edu-Blogs

lace123 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:35:44 -0000

how can we avoid spam in putting a comment here?

Re: Horizon Report 2009 Australia-New Zealand Edition

robert — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:59:00 -0000

Nice information, It was worth to visit here, Regards.

Re: How to Stop Blog Spam in Edu-Blogs

carolct — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:42:12 -0000

Yep, I agree. Though sometimes I get emails from people starting out, asking if I'd look at their product and write a review. For start ups I don't mind so much.

Re: How to Stop Blog Spam in Edu-Blogs

carolct — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:40:40 -0000

Thanks for the comment Karen. But get that 15 in with the decimal point in the right place. So it's 0.15% legit comments and 99.85% spam! Do people have nothing to do with time???? Comments with Disqus have a no-follow tag anyway so they do not benefit in the search engines at all.

Re: How to Stop Blog Spam in Edu-Blogs

Karen Olinarez — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:38:39 -0000

I totally agree. Wow, Almost 15% is spam? no wonder.. Lots of money in elearning blogs..

Re: 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Education

Student Jobs — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:39:58 -0000

Great information! It is very useful for us. Thanks for sharing with us.

Re: How to Stop Blog Spam in Edu-Blogs

Karenne — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:56:39 -0000

Great! Thank you for this advice - the issue has been really driving me nuts.

The thing I can't stop though are companies in my own niche, sometimes even contacts who write emails asking me if I wouldn't mind blogging about their products.

The cheek -- I really, really don't know what some people have in their heads at times. I do talk about other people's work but it's resources I have found myself or I really respect what they're doing.

When someone does this, respect goes out the window and an automatic black mark.

Karenne

Re: How To Teach with … Twitter

carolct — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:06:34 -0000

Thanks Sarah, I hope to build a whole collection of these!

Re: How To Teach with … Twitter

twitter-12103882 — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:49:06 -0000

Great resource Carol - thanks very much

Re: 12 Key Messages for Education in a Social Media Age

twitter-53198862 — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:27:25 -0000

Thanks, this is a really helpful article. Looking forward to reading more of your material!

Re: Computerliteracy skills of tomorrow’s adults

pfanderson — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:26:15 -0000

Thank you! My son got a kick out of seeing his picture here. I am interested in what you are doing here, and look forward to seeing the sequel piece. We are working here also on that "transition" or soft dividing line between play and work. Useful observation.

Re: Research shows Online Learning Better than Face-to-face

Teaching Jobs | Blogger — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 03:15:39 -0000

Although I love the idea that online learning is more effective, I'd still think it would depend on the approach of educators in the use of online technology in communicating with their students.

Re: 38 ways to find great edublogs

Edu Blog Finder — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:52:37 -0000

I've found the best edu blogs to relevant sites from the sigfiles of people on college message boards devoted to that topic. Look for people who post a great deal of meaninful posts. This way you know if they're going to place edu blogs urls in their signatures that they stand by it.

Re: Blog, Twitter, Facebook - Where to start

carolct — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:29:16 -0000

There's a lot to think about Cheryl when you haven't done this stuff before. If your church is going to have a website, the church could also have a blog with designated church members posting to it. You could also have a blog of your own and perhaps the church website could have a list of members blogs.
I'm happy to have a dialogue with you, you can contact me here http://tinyurl.com/ContactCarol

Re: Blog, Twitter, Facebook - Where to start

cheryltolan — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:59:46 -0000

I'd like to know how to start a blog as an apostolic ministry gift of prayer; our website is not yet up. There are those who want info about the ministry, and look forward to blogging, but really need to know HOW to get it started, do I need to start one of my own, or maybe even better--how do I start a website such as facebook--with my own name?
Thank you,
God bless,
Cheryl

Re: 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Education

pleft — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:21:13 -0000

Great suggestions, Carol. I've been gathering some ideas on my wiki of uses that have arisen naturally from just setting up Twitter as a sort of 'back-channel' for a course:

http://www.verso.co.nz/mw/index.php?title=Twitter

Thanks for the informative post...

Paul

Re: Close My Local Library

Bill — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:35:40 -0000

Idea - libraries in Seattle close for a week to save money. Short intermittent closures might help in your area, too? While we're on the subject, this might interest you http://www.librarything.com/