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Tim Holt has an important blog post today on his site Intended Consequences. He shares the hypcrosity of Unilever with their videos for Dove showing girls how a plain Jane is turned into a super model and the ads the same company runs for Axe. Tim asks for teachers to discuss mixed media messages from [...]
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So often in the blogosphere and at conferences we hear about passion. Great teachers show passion in working with students and have ways of reaching them, we want our students to be passionate about learning and we want them to follow their passions in their future work place. Well, tonight I went to a concert [...]
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NECC 09 has come and gone and after reading many blog posts about it today I realized I better get busy on my own post. I’m going to start out with a quick post of the things that are running through my head at the moment.
1. Goals-I didn’t do a very good job of meeting [...]
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Well, it’s certainly been a long time since I’ve blogged here! I think about it frequently but just don’t seem to have enough hours in the day. The good news is that I’m still blogging but in a much different way. I’m doing the 365 photo thing on flickr. As a part of this I’m [...]
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Last year I joined Flickr and I saw Tweets about people joining a 365 photo group. I looked at it briefly but quickly decided there was no way I’d ever keep up and forgot about it. Later in the year I joined Photo Friday at the suggestion of Ann Oro. This was a manageable project-one [...]
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I was tagged in the 7 Things Meme by Ann Oro and Lori Feldman.
Here are seven very random things you don’t know about me.
I grew up in Elgin IL and when I was in 9th grade we moved to Moline IL. I went to college in Wayne NE. A week after I graduated from college [...]
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(My First Blog Bost)
I just passed my one year anniversary of blogging. Hard to believe just over a year ago I barely knew what a blog was let alone a wiki, ning, Twitter or the words web2.0 and PLN.
I had a crash course in learning all these terms at NYSCATE during a day long [...]
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I was tagged by Jen Wagner for the Wordle Meme started by Lee Kolbert. It’s an easy meme to participate in. One look at mine and it’s obvious to see that I’ve been talking about projects lately! I also see evidence of a recent trip to Springfield.
For this meme, I tag the following bloggers: Ann [...]
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Before this Thanksgiving ends in 35 minutes I feel a need to write a quick post. In these times that are difficult for so many around the country and world I have so much to be thankful for. At the top of my list is my husband and children whom I love with all my [...]
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While listening to a recent Driving Questions podcast by Kevin Honeycutt he made an interesting statement in regards to a PLN. He said you can’t shoplift, you have to put something back on the shelf. This statement made me think I’ve been shoplifting lately. I don’t spend as much time as I’d like on [...]
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