In our reflections, we’ve grown to be fearless in sharing in order to build relationships, no matter the rainstorms around us — because there is value in our voices that will help us all learn.
I see in hashtags, replies, retweets, and URLs that this day I was working on information based on my mentoring work.
A Thing To Consider Brett Gaylor with Mozilla Advocacy reminds us that this new internet is “like life, a thing to consider” and without this internet, our freedom of access to information would be so different. Our Parts So as I…
What theme should I use? WordPress Many participants in #cccwrite are considering WordPress.com as their blogging platform. WPBeginner suggests considerations for choosing a theme, including: “Responsive” — that word should be in the theme description — that means it is…
A Question As the world is busy making resolutions, what is the most important ‘lesson’ you want to teach your students? Note: This blog is part of the #blogamonth challenge. Join in our community of educators and give your blogging…
Are you considering blogging? Have you thought about blogging — about sharing your ideas on a topic of your interest? Are you an educator with experience and therefore strategies to share? Are you a new educator with new ideas to…
Online, I have connections: a neighborhood [or several] in which I can visit, share, collaborate, and celebrate with people all over the world.
Sharing ideas by sharing screenshots and images is helpful, especially if the screenshot is annotated.
Images, Copyright, and Fair Use Images bring your blog post to life– it adds information and interest. But we can’t just reach up into the clouds and grab a colorful image. The images we choose and use must be those…
I’d like to invite my #etmooc and #clmooc colleagues to join — it’s open. Join in the reflection and help out colleagues new to blogging as well as share and connect with new people.
I’ve been enjoying the course offered by KQED, “Finding and Evaluating Information. The course authors have added a wealth of information and links for helping all of us, adults and students, better evaluate the information around us in physical and…
Classroom Blogging A few teachers have wondered about starting class blogs and student blogs. Blogging is writing — it’s thinking and communicating ideas; it can be a place to share daily or used as a portfolio or both. It meets…
Yesterday I chose my One Word: Story. Everyone has a story. Today, I discovered my friend Helen DeWaard’s One Word: Frames. Frames structure our ideas– they can limit us, support us, or enrich us. Our frames structure our stories…
One Word. Story. We humans are stories, each of us unique and different, living out our lives according to our plans and obstacles, making life work as best we can. The year 2017 brought immense changes to the country in…
Connected Learning Making Open Online Collaboration [CLmooc] provides options for all participants [you’re invited] to learn and play together around the concepts of connection, communication, and collaboration, whether online or with technology or through the mail, as in postcards. To…
Thanks to everyone in #clmooc for making it still great. Charlene Doland, Lauren Zucker, Ron Leunissen, Susan Watson, Helen DeWaard,Kevin Hodgson, Sarah Honeychurch, Kim Douillard. This Make Cycle 3 is Doodling, with a Twitter Chat todayThursday, August 3 at 7p ET/4p PT/11pm UTC with the…
