Posted on March 21, 2009 by Kimberly McCollum
The following is a slightly altered version of a post I made on the AEA Technology Forum. The original post was a reply in a thread about whether AEA should consider writing guidelines for bloggers at the AEA conference, and if so, what kind of guidelines they should be.
I haven’t seen any good guidelines for [...]
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Posted on March 16, 2009 by Kimberly McCollum
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On March 16, 2008, I clicked “Publish” for the first time and declared myself “(No Longer) Alone in a Library”. Though my posts make no reference to it, a year ago, I was just out of the hospital, sad and scared, and needed not to be alone. The first comments, [...]
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Posted on March 15, 2009 by Kimberly McCollum
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In November, I was drafted into the service of my congregation’s youth program. In January we discovered that there would be a regional basketball tournament in March. As the only woman among us who had played basketball competitively (I played varsity in high school), I became the coach.
As I was preparing [...]
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Posted on March 13, 2009 by Kimberly McCollum
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I became a heavy user of images with creative commons licenses when I first started posting content for my students on the web. At some point, my heavy usage led to feelings of shame. I realized that I was a free-loader and had contributed nothing. I didn’t like the feeling, so I began [...]
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Posted on March 9, 2009 by Kimberly McCollum
At some point when we were dating, my husband sent me a link to his blog. I had never read a blog before, so I was a little worried that the blog was a red flag that I was dating a weirdo. He explained that he was a quiet guy and that reading his blog [...]
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Posted on March 8, 2009 by Kimberly McCollum
Thursday was my second day at the the 2009 SITE conference. I attended the last part of Lisa Hervey’s presentation, “Lost and Found in Translation: A TPCK View of Mid-Career Teacher Beliefs and Practice.” I regretted arriving late! Hervey’s study seemed to be a more qualitative approach to examining Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge. My colleagues [...]
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Posted on March 6, 2009 by Kimberly McCollum
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I ended up attending the 2009 SITE conference in Charleston almost on a whim. I didn’t propose a presentation, but my good friend Andrea did: “Online Social Networking Used to Enhance Face-to-Face and Online Pre-Service Teachers Education”. The abstract states,
“In this presentation we will share our experiences with teaching a technology course for [...]
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