Year: 2007
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Surprise, your preschool teacher is a rock star!
I was pretty surprised to learn one of our 3 year old’s preschool teachers from last year, “Miss Alana,” is not only a fun teacher who my daughter loves– she is also a singer in a local Oklahoma City rock band which has a very active MySpace page! Of course MySpace started as a social…
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Blogging histories
I was interested to hear Will Richardson discuss the number of blog posts he’s written and comments he’s received since he began blogging years ago, in his NECC preso “From Hand It In to Publish It: Re-Envisioning Our Classrooms.” Since I upgraded my WordPress blog engine to version 2.2 yesterday and can now use WordPress…
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Thoughts on moderating comments?
I’m curious what others’ current views are on moderating comments on a professional learning blog like this one. Until yesterday, I have not had comment moderation turned on, but for some reason an offensive comment and link got through Akismet and the other anti-blog spam plugins I had activated. This was more troubling than it…
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Happy 4th, a new look…
We had a relaxing and outstanding 4th of July in Edmond, Oklahoma! One of the highlights of our local parade this morning was seeing Darth Vader riding a Segway!   Besides enjoying the company of family and friends as well as some good food today, I was thrilled to have time (at last) to update my WordPress…
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Thoughts on bit literacy and information overload coping strategies
One of my favorite rhetorical questions to ask during workshops is, “Is anyone here NOT receiving enough email?” I don’t know an adult soul who spends time online (my own children and other kids who don’t yet have email accounts are not counted in that group) who suffers from a LACK of email. Remember “the…
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Reconsidering the Bering land bridge theory
We watched a superb NOVA special from February 2007 this evening (via Netflix) titled “America’s Stone Age Explorers.” The PBS website accompanying the special includes terrific resources for additional learning on the topics addressed in the program. Remember studying in school the Bering land bridge which scientists hypothesize became the transit highway for the first…
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I can hum, so I can find a mystery song
Wow. I am blown away. In a response to yesterday’s post “Challenging Internet search tasks,” Kern Kelley shared a link to Midomi.com. The website describes the service the following way: Search with your Voice: Search for music by singing or humming part of a song. All you need is a microphone. Sounds too good to…
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Challenging Internet search tasks
Have you had the experience of not being able to remember the title of a song you like, or the musical artist? I have been racking my brain to remember the title and author of an accompanying song to an iTunes advertisement I really liked, and at last I found it this evening. I have…