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Today I demonstrated Google plus to my students as we compared and contrasted Google Hangouts with Skype and Oovoo . As I went into Google plus, I just happened to be there as Stephen Downes pointed out a grammatical mistake I made on my Leadership post yesterday. My students said: "Hey, Mrs. Vicki, is that guy talking about you?" Oops. He was. I had made a grammatical mistake (again.) Stephen Downes ' Google plus post about my mistake. I don't want to debate my mistake here. I made one. Period. I aim for zero grammatical mistakes and this mistake wasn't in the original post but came when I went back and tweaked the post this morning - as I often do when I think I've written something I like. I didn't proofread after I made the correction and thus embarrassed myself greatly, especially because someone of the stature of Stephen Downes caught it and let everyone know. I totally goofed up. Quite a debate with those who know more than I do ab...

Image via Wikipedia Just taken aside by an Edutopia Article How to Help Students Use Social Media Effectively and I had some concerns to share there and that I thought I'd cross post here. In the article Andrew Marcinek says:  "Educators must model effective writing and editing as well. I comb through thousands of tweets, blogs, and status updates from week to week, and one glaring pattern is typos. Some may argue that this is just a simple error and not a big deal. However, it is a big deal if we want to maintain the sanctity of the English language and get people to connect to our message. If you regularly cannot self-edit 140 characters, do you really think I am going to want to pay to see you speak? Want to buy your book? Or take you seriously as an educator? Not likely." So, below are my edited comments to Andrew's post. About Perfection Quality does matter. I will say this. Right now, I am having a horrible time with my laptop because the sp...