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Today one of my colleagues sent a link to "How One Teacher Uses Twitter in the Classroom," the story of University of Texas at Dallas History Professor, Monica Rankin's use of Twitter.  The included Youtube video has a number of interviews with students describing why this is a such a useful tool.

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Almost the first day of NECC and I'm attending the Edubloggercon. This is an "unconference" which is supposed to be very unstructured. This has been "organized" on its own wiki for several months now.

But this one has over 200 people attending so we drop back to the way conferences get organized more traditionally. We've all voted on what the schedule of discussions should be using polleverywhere.com.

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Last night, I think I finally started to "get" Twitter! I had my window open and just randomly commented on whoever I saw say something interesting. Kind of the "bull in a china shop" approach. Had some wonderful exchanges with Mindelei (who I only know from last night's conversation), DMCordell (who I've followed on Twitter and worked with online), and many others.

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Last night I spoke to a parents' group about Social Networking and balancing the opportunities and dangers on the Internet for kids of varying ages. By the end, we started to get to the fact that we really are at the very beginning of all of this when we look at things like Club Penguin or MySpace. Today, I came across this slide show from Cory Ondrejka . Mr. Continue reading...

Today, I'm attending the final day of the Internet2 Spring Meeting in Washington, DC. Right now, the main session is going on, but I hate sitting at the back of the room straining to balance on one of the chairs and trying to see over everyone's head to squint to view the PowerPoint slides. Instead, I'm in a comfortable chair in the lobby, watching the whole thing via the live stream, which of course will be available long after they finish talking. Continue reading...

Just finished reading an interesting blog post from Wes Fryer of Oklahoma entitled Blogs, Wikis, District Polices, Walled Gardens and the Open Web. Continue reading...

I just finished reading an excellent article by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach reflecting on her own use of the network for learning and on how teachers can become more involved. Her latest blog posting is entitled So Much to Say-- So Little Time. She says a lot of what I've been experiencing as I continue my use of Twitter. Continue reading...

I'm starting to really think about my conference presentation for this year's Delaware Instructional Technology Conference. My topic and blurb as submitted.

How Do We Know?

When we were in school, the question was "What do you know?" Now, for most of us, the question is "How can I know this?" and "how do I know it's true? " This presentation will go beyond searching to discuss some real-world dilemmas in Knowing in the 21st Century.

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Still trying to figure out what makes sense in my use of Twitter, I found this video via a Twitter post from Mark Wagner.