about you? Today’s post gives each of us a rare professional development opportunity – learning from other teachers who teach the same curriculum as you. Think about it. Wouldn’t the idea of having just a first grade teacher conference be phenomenal? How about a drama teacher conference? Or one for middle school English teachers? What sort of conversations would you have? What resources would you share?
It was the best of times …
Over the past few months – September and October, in particular – if you wanted to be popular on the Internet, you should have blogged or run a website about the presidential campaign. Starting with the prolonged fight for the Democratic nomination in early 2008, and then the general-election fight between Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain, blogs and websites that de
A big question thrown open to learning professionals each month. The responses are usually very interesting.
A manifesto for the Slow Blogging movement, encouraging reflection and deliberation rather than immediacy and frequency. Slow blogging is dedicated to the notion that "not all things worth reading are written quickly."
Describes a movement toward "slow blogging," a more reflective, less frequent style of blogging inspired by the slow food movement. Slow blogging is a deliberate response to the constantly-accelerating pace of online communications like traditional blogging and Twitter. Also discusses Dawdlr, a snail-mail based alternative to Twitter.
Former Vice President Al Gore thinks that Web 2.0 needs to have more
purpose - it needs to be used to help fight global warming.
More and more companies are using blogs to report information to
employers and to the public. Fascinating article about blogging within
major corporations.