2009 Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education Conference in Charleston–March 4

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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 [...]

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 [...]