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Are You a Twitter Ninja?

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Professional Learning Communities and Social Learning

Professional Learning Communities (PLC’s) continue to get a lot of attention as new models of Professional Development for learning.  I’ve been part of formal PLC’s for about 6 years. In the new school district I work for, many of our teachers and schools are new to PLC’s and are discovering their power.  Some of these [...]

Why communication skills are important

Every high school English teacher should show this to their class and they’ll never have to justify why students need to learn to write, read and give speeches. Yikes!

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Some old friends return

StumbleUpon was something I played with over 2 years ago.  I really like they way it seemed to bring a greater sense of serendipity to my learning. I discovered some really cool things. Not sure why I left it but I rediscovered it a few days ago and have already found some neat stuff.  Here’s [...]

News Feed Zero

Taking a page out of Merlin Mann’s Inbox Zero presentation, I considered my news reader habits. I think they mirror Mann’s suggestion for getting your inbox to zero. Okay, I realize email is harder to get to zero. Feeds aren’t usually addressed to you and don’t ever require a response or action. However, [...]