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8 months ago
in SimplyBox - revolutionizing student research? on Thoughts from a technology specialist...
Jerry,
This was terrific and your tutorial saved me a few hours of having to figure this out for myself. Thank you for sharing this great find!
This was terrific and your tutorial saved me a few hours of having to figure this out for myself. Thank you for sharing this great find!
9 months ago
in If I Can Do This, Anybody Can on Drape's Takes
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That's awesome. I think sometimes, the best conversations and even, presentations come out of spur of the moment opportunities like the one you described. I wish I was there to partake. I tell (skeptical) teachers all the time, about my background, as an elementary teacher who was always too nervous to speak in front of her own faculty. On parent night, my stomach would hurt and I'd avoid talking to the parents by showing a self-playing 30-minute PowerPoint of the kids work instead. It's hard to believe that I would do that, but I've grown to be a trainer, collaborator, presenter, blogger, Twitterer, etc. by making myself take small steps out of my comfort zone. If I can do it, anyone can!!
Thanks for sharing your story. ~Lee
That's awesome. I think sometimes, the best conversations and even, presentations come out of spur of the moment opportunities like the one you described. I wish I was there to partake. I tell (skeptical) teachers all the time, about my background, as an elementary teacher who was always too nervous to speak in front of her own faculty. On parent night, my stomach would hurt and I'd avoid talking to the parents by showing a self-playing 30-minute PowerPoint of the kids work instead. It's hard to believe that I would do that, but I've grown to be a trainer, collaborator, presenter, blogger, Twitterer, etc. by making myself take small steps out of my comfort zone. If I can do it, anyone can!!
Thanks for sharing your story. ~Lee
11 months ago
in Update on Discovery Educator Network scraping my content… on There's a Blog in my Soup!
Patrick,
What Heather did was wrong, but at this point you should leave it alone. Many of us are novice bloggers and are just figuring things out. I can imagine how humiliating this must be for her and rest assured, the lesson has been learned.
We can all benefit from Heather's inappropriate action on her blog. Your reaction is justified and serves to help us all realize how serious many bloggers are about what they do (and rightfully so). Intellectual property is a serious thing and yet, such a difficult thing to protect.
Legal action? What are the damages? In fact, I'd say it has not only generated good publicity for you, but has served as a good "community service" warning for all of us. The Discovery Educator Network is all about education, teaching and learning. That's what's happening right here, right now and like it or not, you've been pulled into it and at the same time you're making a positive impact on the blogging community, so... Let it go. Lesson learned. 'nuff said.
What Heather did was wrong, but at this point you should leave it alone. Many of us are novice bloggers and are just figuring things out. I can imagine how humiliating this must be for her and rest assured, the lesson has been learned.
We can all benefit from Heather's inappropriate action on her blog. Your reaction is justified and serves to help us all realize how serious many bloggers are about what they do (and rightfully so). Intellectual property is a serious thing and yet, such a difficult thing to protect.
Legal action? What are the damages? In fact, I'd say it has not only generated good publicity for you, but has served as a good "community service" warning for all of us. The Discovery Educator Network is all about education, teaching and learning. That's what's happening right here, right now and like it or not, you've been pulled into it and at the same time you're making a positive impact on the blogging community, so... Let it go. Lesson learned. 'nuff said.
1 year ago
in MicroBlogging Is About to Go All McDonalds On Us and I’m Tired Of It. on David Risley
I don't think anyone will argue with you, David, about not needing ANOTHER social network. Not many of us have patience for multiple places to do the same things.
I would argue though, that usage is killing Twitter. That's why the vultures are coming in. Twitter was never intended to be used the way its being used today. Originally, the tagline, "What are you doing?" was meant to be like an IM "away message." You could broadcast a message to 900 of your closest friends.
The developers at Twitter didn't anticipate that all 900 would be @replying to you. The evolution and the impact on the servers came as a surprise to those at Twitter. Also, even IF the Twitter servers are tweaked (no pun intended) to handle the load, I still believe the next best thing will still kill Twitter. For awhile people will stick around. Just like there are still people who have TVs with rotary dials.
Today, people have a low tolerance for sameness. Everyone gets bored easily and needs that next fix more quickly than the last. Look at cell phones today. Who keeps their cellphones beyond 2 years? (And its not because they are breaking.)
Here's why Twitter is not safe:
Twitter evolved into a conversation tool, but the end user has a hard time tracking conversations and has to rely on a 3rd party app to do so. Plurk allows users to follow conversation much more easily. Users can even link to entire conversations on a single page. Here's an example:
http://www.plurk.com/p/14zxr
Interfaces are slightly different, but people will learn. Problem with jumping from Twitter is that people don't want to leave their networks behind.
Plurk allows you to import your friends from Twitter and identi.ca is coming forth with a Twitter integration feature, as well.
My point being that these apps are just small blips on the road to social networking progress.
We may have to agree to disagree here. I do love Twitter and I'm loving Plurk too.
There's room on the playground (right now) for a few to play nicely, but pretty soon there will be a shiny new toy coming along and Twitter (and Plurk and all these other Twitter-wanna-be's) will be buried under the sand.
Don't get too attached.
~Lee
@teachakidd on Twitter and Plurk
I would argue though, that usage is killing Twitter. That's why the vultures are coming in. Twitter was never intended to be used the way its being used today. Originally, the tagline, "What are you doing?" was meant to be like an IM "away message." You could broadcast a message to 900 of your closest friends.
The developers at Twitter didn't anticipate that all 900 would be @replying to you. The evolution and the impact on the servers came as a surprise to those at Twitter. Also, even IF the Twitter servers are tweaked (no pun intended) to handle the load, I still believe the next best thing will still kill Twitter. For awhile people will stick around. Just like there are still people who have TVs with rotary dials.
Today, people have a low tolerance for sameness. Everyone gets bored easily and needs that next fix more quickly than the last. Look at cell phones today. Who keeps their cellphones beyond 2 years? (And its not because they are breaking.)
Here's why Twitter is not safe:
Twitter evolved into a conversation tool, but the end user has a hard time tracking conversations and has to rely on a 3rd party app to do so. Plurk allows users to follow conversation much more easily. Users can even link to entire conversations on a single page. Here's an example:
http://www.plurk.com/p/14zxr
Interfaces are slightly different, but people will learn. Problem with jumping from Twitter is that people don't want to leave their networks behind.
Plurk allows you to import your friends from Twitter and identi.ca is coming forth with a Twitter integration feature, as well.
My point being that these apps are just small blips on the road to social networking progress.
We may have to agree to disagree here. I do love Twitter and I'm loving Plurk too.
There's room on the playground (right now) for a few to play nicely, but pretty soon there will be a shiny new toy coming along and Twitter (and Plurk and all these other Twitter-wanna-be's) will be buried under the sand.
Don't get too attached.
~Lee
@teachakidd on Twitter and Plurk
1 year ago
in Five Things You Could Learn From Bob LeDrew on Chris Brogan
Chris,
Great post and very applicable to my work as an administrator in education. I tend to over analyze my "performance" when in a meeting or presenting, or even in conversations and this is something I am really working on.
You've inspired me to write a post on my blog about this as well. I'll get right on it after I'm done obsessing about how it will turn out. :)
Thanks for such a thought provoking post.
Lee (aka @Teachakidd)
Great post and very applicable to my work as an administrator in education. I tend to over analyze my "performance" when in a meeting or presenting, or even in conversations and this is something I am really working on.
You've inspired me to write a post on my blog about this as well. I'll get right on it after I'm done obsessing about how it will turn out. :)
Thanks for such a thought provoking post.
Lee (aka @Teachakidd)
1 year ago
in What Were Your First Steps on Chris Brogan
Not sure this would be considered Social "Media" but 30 years ago, I set up a CB radio base station in my bedroom and used to "chat" with my friends (most of whom I didn't really know - just like with today's teens and "chatting"). Since then, I'd say AOL 1.0 chat rooms, then the big leap to Digg. As for an role models? Hmmm, I'll have to think on that.
1 year ago
in It’s Not Spam, It’s Marketing On Twitter on SheGeeks
Not sure I understand, how is it spam if they follow you and you don't follow them? You can choose not to receive their updates which is how they are pushing out their messages. ~ Lee
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1 year ago
in Happy Birthday To Me on LOL: Life of Leo
Hi Leo,
Like you, I work to reach out to educators all over. In my case, mostly 12,000 teachers in my district alone but often I get to do presentations at conferences elsewhere and online, etc. A project I'm currently working on is building a del.icio.us network of Twitter_EdTech people to share their bookmarks. It actually started out with the Twitter network, but I'm hoping all educators with similar bookmarks will join the network. If you wouldn't mind taking a look at how it works, and if you would join it would require only a second of your time and would do a lot for the credibility of this project. There are two brief posts for you to read. The first one is just how it works. It's the call-out to join. The second post is the follow up on how I plan to expand the use of the network to share with others during a breakout session at a technology conference. Your feedback is greatly appreciated.
http://macmomma.blogspot.com/2008/02/creating-d...
http://macmomma.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-tweet-...
As if I haven't asked enough, if you can give a small plug for others to join it in your blog or as a tweet, that would be awesome!
Thank you so much!
Like you, I work to reach out to educators all over. In my case, mostly 12,000 teachers in my district alone but often I get to do presentations at conferences elsewhere and online, etc. A project I'm currently working on is building a del.icio.us network of Twitter_EdTech people to share their bookmarks. It actually started out with the Twitter network, but I'm hoping all educators with similar bookmarks will join the network. If you wouldn't mind taking a look at how it works, and if you would join it would require only a second of your time and would do a lot for the credibility of this project. There are two brief posts for you to read. The first one is just how it works. It's the call-out to join. The second post is the follow up on how I plan to expand the use of the network to share with others during a breakout session at a technology conference. Your feedback is greatly appreciated.
http://macmomma.blogspot.com/2008/02/creating-d...
http://macmomma.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-tweet-...
As if I haven't asked enough, if you can give a small plug for others to join it in your blog or as a tweet, that would be awesome!
Thank you so much!
1 year ago
in Do you think Twitter will see mass adoption in 2008? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist on Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist
I definitely think people need to give Twitter a chance because too often people get the wrong idea when think "social." And so social networking tools, like Twitter, get a bad rap! For me and my "network" it's more about advancing our ideas. We are a group of progressive educators who try to get teachers and decision makers to think out of the box. Our circle uses Twitter, for example, to share examples of great teaching practices. We blog about these contantly and share great ideas. It is a non-linear effort to push people out of their comfort zone to teach students IN their comfort zone!
http://www.macmomma.blogspot.com/
http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/kolbert/
http://www.macmomma.blogspot.com/
http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/kolbert/
At the same time, I manually go through my list of followers every now
and then in case I'm not following someone that I should be. The
amount of spammers following me makes that a pretty tedious process.
Also, some of these spam followers can use your messages to find new
content and sites to scrape.