November 2011
8 posts
RT @Joelle_writes: I would love to see a Kickstarter for hiring librarians and tech folks for these schools in need. #tcdigital
RT @buffyjhamilton: James Gee: literacy requires mentorship #tcdigital
Guilt by search: How “learning” search engines can turn into amplifiers of what others think about you. http://t.co/U7vErsGS
Just because it’s “easy” to amass data on students, doesn’t mean you should. A lesson for academics & librarians. http://t.co/1btpfHid
Interesting meditation on the costs in staff time of #elearning. http://t.co/9DCAv1wg #highered #education #faculty
How do you think a utopian vision of direct democracy like this would affect #Libraries & #education? http://t.co/XWsLh9yz
When passwords attack: the problem with aggressive password policies. RT @arstechnica http://t.co/pJUfhMlw
Libraries take note: On the death of book publishers and other middlemen. You’re middlemen, too. http://t.co/iXubU4yO
October 2011
12 posts
17 tips to make your #socialmedia persona more attractive of followers. http://t.co/LEV5OehR RT @OEDB_org
Beautiful & heartbreaking scans of Civil War recruitment posters. I’d love to see these used in history class. http://t.co/ahLqk6wI
RT @timoreilly: .@billkasdorf during #sis2011 Q&A: “We have to stop using the metaphor of intellectual property and start thinking of in …
Teaching students the kairos of communicating through social media by … participating in social media. http://t.co/f4QSE6z1
Never forget: The most important part of #socialmedia is “social”. Don’t just set up accounts & pages, engage! http://t.co/BzwIUPfT
RT @PeopleBrowsr: “Every technology that changed the world has done it without us knowing.” @bbough quoting Nicolas Carr. 140 character …
Changing expectations for teaching is needed to drive positive change in classrooms, no matter the school. http://t.co/Zy9C05BD #education
Another example of using the audience’s language, this time teens & bullying. http://t.co/O02LeINW
By 2015, more users will access the web from mobile devices than from PCs. Are you getting ready? http://t.co/BewPWiYH #mobileweb #ipads
Play a game, save lives (potentially): Fold.it. http://t.co/ZSBMxr5G via @engadget
An encyclopedia of misunderstood #jobs, from A(rmy soldier) to Z(ookeeper) from The Atlantic: http://t.co/LNvRNG4x
Awesome animated #visualization of all Kiva.org #microfinance loans flying around the world. http://t.co/0y6rHEfl
5 things #socialmedia can’t do. Sage words of advice. http://t.co/HrSwAufy
September 2011
13 posts
These guidelines are a little trite and mostly common sense, but we can always use a memory refresh. http://t.co/m6Vf7rpD
Things folks of all ages can do for fun and learning on the Libray of Congress website. http://t.co/TkbESRW6 RT @MakeUseOf
Judy Blume & Lauren Myracle help launch Banned Books Week Virtual Read-Out! http://t.co/COkH2t85 via @oif
Leave it to #highered to be late to the party. University offers tuition discount Groupon. http://t.co/3eFhLnOA
If I set up a Skype (or Facetime) account like this teacher did, I wonder if anyone would use it during work hours? http://t.co/xDxnkIXP
Beware using clickers to track attendance: the system is easy to game. http://t.co/Ja4j0FHW #edtech #education
College Spending Trends Show Students Bearing a Growing Share of the Costs http://j.mp/qDRtGb #showmethemoney #highered #tuition #education
Are the great educated guilds & higher education made obsolete by the freelance economy & computers? http://t.co/eFmXgeTc #highered #jobs
Reviews drive many buys on ecommerce sites. Do you think the same could be true of educational sites? http://t.co/GsiklDZ3 RT @gigaom
New Approach to Cuts? Is this the way your university handled bdget constriction? http://j.mp/q8mowM #highered
I like this teacher’s use of QR codes to give hidden answers on review sheets. http://t.co/zll7njzg RT @rayschroeder #edtech #education #qr
Too slow! EasyBib implements feature I daydreamed about recently: generating a citation from a barcode: http://t.co/Fpmcmdf #easybib
Rising costs, opaque rules, & anemic job markets have students worried about college costs: RT @rayschroeder http://ht.ly/68LRE
August 2011
7 posts
About math, but useful anywhere. RT @TLC_edu: Using Podcasts to Keep Your Students on Track via @SimpleK12 Blogs http://t.co/hFHOuAR
Really? RT @central_ipm: How Google+ will succeed http://t.co/UfGzznJ #socialmedia #ELearning
The importance & power of creativity in education. Valuable in the current climate of one-size-fits-all testing. http://t.co/a2CaCtN
Wake Forest has some great ideas for positioning librarians as interdisciplinary experts: http://t.co/U0EVrxi. #wakeforest #librariansrock
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November 2009
2 posts
Is there a Law of Trolls?: http://wp.me/pG26D-3I
This might be the proper way to deal with politicians and other quacks.: http://wp.me/pG26D-3r
October 2009
55 posts
This explains a lot.: http://wp.me/pG26D-54
See the way Galileo saw the universe.: http://wp.me/pG26D-4u
They never give up, do they?: http://wp.me/pG26D-48
Would punk have worked better?: http://wp.me/pG26D-3m
What are the odds on Bigfoot?: http://wp.me/pG26D-35
They’re just like people.: http://wp.me/pG26D-4g
Seeing this might be worth the trip to Australia.: http://wp.me/pG26D-4Z
Why did it take so long?: http://wp.me/pG26D-4X