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ByJMFor about a decade, I joined my virtual online buddies each Sunday night to review the latest educational technologies on a live webcast called EdTechWeekly. The webcast started in the mid-2000s during the height of Web 2.0. It’s the main reason I’m the within the first 13,600 people to have a Twitter account. We started…
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ByJMLinked here is an Educause article entitled "Engage Me or Enrage Me". Lately, I have been drawn to reading articles like this about educating the so-called "Net Generation". Like others, this article makes a case that we need to edu-tain these students. The main premise of these articles is that education (in this era of…
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ByJMI was tagged by Christy Tucker to share in the latest “random facts” meme … now up to 8. Since I shared 5 back in December, I thought I would add 3 more now: From December: I have a bunch of hometowns: I grew up in itty bitty Lodi, WI and spent every summer with…
46:365 | Bookmarks
ByJMThe education conferences are starting in 2019, and today I received our new bookmarks that I’ll be handing out during booth duty. Even though we are a virtual organization and spend much of our programming teaching how to integrate technology, we’re going “old school” to drive home our mission to support literacy. On the front…
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