
What are blog shorts? Blog shorts are short posts that serve a variety of purposes, but are purposely short for either the audience or the author.
What are blog shorts? Blog shorts are short posts that serve a variety of purposes, but are purposely short for either the audience or the author.
“What will I write about?” is a question often asked by new bloggers. For just getting started, start short. Here’s how!
Sometimes we need a break, a time to just reflect on a moment — like today with sun melting the snow, revealing the browned grass, soaking its melt into the dormant earth as my kitten explored the outside for her first outing.
How about a poem?
If I hadn’t set my calendar goals, I would have missed out on the opportunity to learn from others and then share for others.
In the news of the world, we learn about what happens in other countries. Do similar events and news occur in our country?
A blog to gather resources: the aggregated posts are my my library, and the search box is my filter to find the relevant information
We seek our answers and converse and share with others through blogs, Twitter, online communities. We make sense of the information and adapt and remix to fit our own situation. We share out we learned. It’s a process of curation in a community of practice.
“Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff.” — a powerful tool that aids in serious research and annotation of the web.
Connected Learners seem to find each other– we gather together to learn from each other about similar interests and passions.
a remix of the information — rearranging the information or turning one medium into another, creating something new out of the same ideas.
An important part of curation is to share the information in annotated form so others can discuss and add to the information. But what if the “curation” in your “stream” is misinformation? And it’s in your Echo Chamber?
Everything saves in Evernote. The best thing is that everything is searchable — even handwriting or words in a picture
What is Evernote? Evernote is a very searchable note-taking application that syncs to every device and is noted for being able to search even text within pictures. There are many options now for note-taking, but I’ve been using Evernote from…
Researching topics helps build the momentum of blogging to keep ideas available for that next post. So, what do I do with the information I find? I curate with tools that fit my needs.