(Wii) Music to my ears

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Yesterday, my husband and I received our copy of Wii Music, but before I can tell you about my musings about Wii Music, you first need some understanding of my musical history.
When I was in elementary school, I sang enthusiastically in the school chorus.  In 5th grade, I tried out for [...]

Podcasting, screencasting, and video sharing

I’m a PC user.  I like spreadsheets.  I dislike the Mac user interface and I’m disappointed every time Windows tries harder to imitate it; I want to see my hierarchical file structure as soon as possible, thank you very much.  That said, Macs have at least one clear advantage over PCs–Garage [...]

Some thoughts on educational uses of the annotation tools in Diigo

This week, Dr. Wiley asked us to highlight and annotate a classmate’s blog posting. I annotated several classmates’ postings:

“Educational Uses of Pod and Videocasts” on LeLute’s Weblog
“Learning in Dense, Distributed, Social Networks” on web technology in small doses
“Relevance, Permanence, Social Discourse and Filtering . . . or . . . “If I Were a Middle [...]

Slideshare and “Presentation Design Tennis” in an online course

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SlideShare is an important part of the online course that I am teaching this semester.  Most weeks, I’ve created a short (3-6 minute) slidecast to introduce the topic for the week and draw attention to the week’s assignments.  If you are interested, you can view my presentations by visting my slidespace.   [...]

Delicious and Flickr in Education

David Wiley has asked those of us in his New Media, Social Media, and Learning Course to post on educational uses of Delicious and Flickr.
Delicious
One of my early posts on this blog (before people who weren’t related to me started to read it) was entitled “Tools for Personal Learning Networks: Social Bookmarking and Citation Management.”  [...]

Social networks and learning networks

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About a year ago, I started teaching a course on Instructional Technology in Teaching and dived head first into the world of Web 2.0. Somewhere a long the way, I found a blog post that mentioned the term “personal learning network” and was intrigued because it described the process that I was using [...]

I’m doing my homework, really . . .

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Yesterday, I spent a fair amount of the afternoon augmenting my Facebook profile.  This is not something I do very often, because frankly, I feel that Facebook’s best use is for killing time and I tend to agree with Thoreau that killing time wounds eternity.  Still, it was my homework to browse through [...]

My social graph

TouchGraph is an interesting data visualization tool that I like to play with every now and then; I find it a fascinating way to surf through the results of a Google Search.  After completing course readings on the social graph, I thought of Touchgraph’s ability to visually map Facebook contacts and decided to see what [...]

Goals achieved and set

This summer I accepted a challenge to set three professional development goals. I’m about a month late in reporting on my progress, but it feels good to say that I accomplished all three of my goals.
1. I read Influencer: The Power to Change Anything
and participated in the CASTLE online book club.
2. I prepared [...]