Category Archives: open thread

Some TGIF Fluff: Tweetclouds as Windows of the Soul

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 […]

Open Thread: What Do We Mean by “Self-Promotion” on Twitter?

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 […]

Open Thread: What Should I Offer at Shanghai Learning 2.008?

I’m afraid this will sound presumptuous, when I intend it in the same way as when I ask students to give me feedback to help classes improve. What I’m talking about is this:
I’ve been invited to present three sessions at the Shanghai Learning 2.008 Conference next September. What I offer is largely up […]

Another Little Writing Exercise: Varying Sentence Openings

Just sharing another quick writing exercise to follow up on the “titles and introductions” lesson using Alltop, since some writing teachers seemed to appreciate that one.
We did this lesson in my PLN/Networked Learning writing elective last week.  So many of my students, after 10+ years of writing in school, were writing post after post of […]

Open Thread: Your Favorite Teacher Blogs, by Subject Matter?

As the title says, short and sweet: What are your favorite blogs for 21st century teaching, by subject matter? 
As a classroom teacher myself with a 3/4 teaching load plus unofficial tech coordinator duties for k-12 at my school, I don’t have much time this year to stay abreast of all the great teacher bloggers […]