Daily Spotlight on Education 02/28/2009
The earliest paper in backchanneling. I've seen the quieter students come out. Also, having Google Jockeys is essential to the process. Also, a way to archive the channel and sort of agreed upon use for the backchannel is helpful.
WNY Education Associates » Allowing the Dispositions of Practice to Guide Online Exchanges
Angela Stockman has excellent ponderings and points about the issues of supporting face to face communities with online communities and why many resist such an effort. Great thoughts to consider for those who are working to move towards this.
Mr. Tweet -> Your Personal Networking Assistant!
Very cool tool to help you get a handle on your twitter followers, find people you should follow and more. Neat tool.
Sue waters wants us to share our great tweets- how do you do this? Tag it #gr8t -- do one a day - your favorite tweet and tag it that way.
The tricky thing is how it will handle it as when I reply to give another credit for the #gr8t tweet, how will THEY get credit? Just not sure, but anyway, her tips for joining in the twitter conversation are good ones.ETLMS Blog » Blog Archive » The “Personalities” of Blog Writers
Neat blog over at etlms - Educational technology & Library Media services - lots of interesting current things over there. I' a subscriber now!
State of the Art - Google Geniuses at Work on Free Goodies - NYTimes.com
Pretty easy to read overview of Google services. (Hat tip to nichols sj for this referral.)
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.