[Update: I added a complete novel you should be able to guess, just to give you an idea of what this would look like (h/t to Adrienne for the spark).] Going Deeper with Post-Clouds Since a lot of people seemed to enjoy the TweetClouds as Windows of the Soul meme, I thought this bit of [...]

First, a mini-photo essay on my own point of view about privileging writing over speaking when grading in the collaborative, networking, multimedia century: Three weeks after the Diigo stampede, I’ve been concerned that the new trend of putting Diigo annotations on posts instead of leaving comments in the thread was a negative thing. Only Diigo [...]

I promised in an earlier post to give the link when Teachers Teaching Teachers posted its podcast with students weighing in on “How to Be Unschooly” in blogs, Twitter, and more. Consider it done. It is so worth a listen. There’s something to say, too, about the back-story on this. Soojin, the Korean student who [...]

[Update 2: Goodness! A 75-comment debate exploded in less than a day.  Best sustained conversation among all commenters (not just responding to the post) that I've ever seen on this blog.  A true "cocktail party" about an important subject: Assessing with a bias toward writing, versus assessing to reward non-written communication skills equally in grades.]  [...]

I just had to share this opening. Blogs are not uncommon, but opening lines like this one from Charlie Roy? Obviously written with care (and some intangible verve), they’re pretty rare. Just had to share: All of us have seen presentations that dull our intellect and shorten our lives. We cope and endure often times [...]

[Update 2: Most of the clarification promised in the update below is in the comment thread. I still don't hear a lot of testimonies that RSS is really sticky with non-geeks, though, even from its strongest defenders. So I'm still wondering if we shouldn't be looking for other paths to conversion in our PD sessions [...]

It’s almost 6 p.m. here in Seoul, and that’s bedtime for this nocturne. Before curling up in Morpheus’ arms, I want to throw this screenshot of my Tweetcloud up here (thanks to Cathy Nelson for sharing that one). It’s an interesting little thing, this tag cloud of your most frequent tweet words. The largest words [...]

Short and sweet, that’s the question. I find it fascinating from the angles of psychology and sociology. Lots of talk about “self-promotion” on Twitter around the blog-hood these days. I frankly don’t know what it means. I say as much in this reply to comments on my last post: I also wonder about all the [...]

David Jakes’ post slamming questioning Twitter has done a good job of generating reflection on “the uses and ‘abuses’” of Twitter. I left this comment there, and want to copy it here for my records: The dismissals of Twitter as idle chatter, or stunted substitutes for extended thinking, miss something I’ve noted (and practiced) on [...]

International School of Bangkok‘s Justin Medved asked me to spread the word about their elementary and middle school Project Global Cooling events, both of which will be Ustreamed: Middle School Concert for Climate Change – 12-2 pm Bangkok Time on Thursday April 24th Elementary Earth Day Festival – 8am – 1pm Bangkok time on Friday [...]