Aug

20

Reflections on Summer 2008

August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment

This has been an extremely eventful summer for me.  Spending eight weeks participating in the RET program at Notre Dame proved to be challenging and stimulating.  A week-long jaunt to Boston for Alan November’s wonderful Building Learning Communities dropped me head-first into the education 2.0 world.  As school is now starting soon, I think that [...]

Aug

1

Sometimes smart technology …

August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment

is hard to find.

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Sometimes the tech requires multiple exposures to prove its utility. For me, twitter is a prime example. Login, post a snip of your life, share. It works. Twitter makes it easy to not only connect with others, but form a digital bond. I was completely ignorant to [...]

Jul

21

Building Learning Communities 2008

July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Well, my head is slowly decompressing from the aftermath of the Building Learning Communities Conference this past week in Boston, MA. I went into the conference feeling pretty technologically adept and have since realized that I lived in a Web 1.0 world. The disturbing thing to me is that I also feel [...]

Jul

21

Ning in Education

July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

If you are in education and have not yet joined ning, make sure that once you have registered that you join the education group as well as the classroom 2.0 group.

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