Wisconsin is a state filled with farm land and small school districts across rural areas. Each district can feel like it’s own island, but the educators on Twitter are working to connect those islands. Over time as many of us Wisconsin Educators have become closely connected we have coined ourselves Read more…
It’s that time of year again…nominations for the 2012 Edublog or “Eddies” awards. If you’re new to social media and haven’t heard of the Eddies, here’s what they are all about (copied straight from the Edublog site): The Edublog Awards is a community based incentive started in 2004 in response Read more…
I recently read the blog post, Twitter Snobs or Efficient Learners written by Bill Ferriter. In this post Bill states, “whenever the number of people that I’m following grows to more than 200, I simply get lost in the streams of information that come through my Twitter feed. At that Read more…
When the topic of social media comes up in conversations (both in my personal and professional circles) I am still amazed by how many people say “social media and technology are taking away from the personalization, relationships, and face-to-face conversations.” I beg to differ. In my personal life, facebook helps Read more…
Recently I shared the following article in our state administrators association monthly newsletter and thought it would be great to cross-post here. Maybe this will help you get started or you can pass it on to your principal if he/she is not on twitter. “What is twitter?” “Isn’t twitter for Read more…
Recently, I finally convinced a dear friend of mine to join Twitter (after 2 years of talking about it to her), but was surprised when she said she has nothing worthy of tweeting for others. This is an awesome teacher that can share with me for hours about her classroom Read more…
Almost everyone on twitter is talking about the Edublog Awards right now and I’m slightly embarrassed to admit that with almost 3 years of being on twitter I’ve never paid attention to the Edublog Awards. I can recall seeing tweets about it and have seen Edublog Award badges on some Read more…
My twitter journey began in February 2009 during my first year as a principal. Like most, I was reluctant to sign up after hearing about it, but finally signed up after my 2 favorite principals on the Practical Principals podcast mentioned it in a couple of their podcasts. In the Read more…