Jen Wagner has tagged me with the Wordle meme begun by Lee Kolbert. I was also tagged by Martha Thornburgh. This works well with Teach 42‘s posts Day 27 and Day 28 of 30 days to being a better blogger where he referenced Lee’s meme. So here goes. I first used my RSS feeds, I have 4 feeds and I found it interesting that they produced different Wordles. One seemed to only show my first few posts about the MassCUE…
Thanks to Teach42 there are going to be a ton of post on, Why I Blog? This is the challenge for day 22 in the 30 Days to Being a Better Blogger. So here is my brief response, as I have posted this on a few times before as I reflected on why I keep blogging. I started blogging to learn how to blog I still blog to learn how to blog – that is why I am participating in…
I spent a wonderful 3 days at Sturbridge, MA. The pre-conference day of discovery was a fun event and Dennis Swain out did himself inspiring the teachers in attendance on how to use Discovery Education Streaming. He also brought with him some wonderful STAR educators to share their expertise. The next 2 days were devoted to the MassCUE annual conference. Our first keynote speaker was Wesley Fryer. He spoke to the differences in today’s students, the importance of 21st century…
Getting ready to attend MassCUE this week. Tuesday I’ll be going to the pre-conference Day of Discovery. There will be about 10 teachers from my district attending this event. Discovery always does a great job of inspiring teachers. I am really looking forward to what they have to offer. The main conference follows, Wesley Fryer will be the keynote speaker on Wednesday and Hall Davidson will be the keynote speaker on Thursday. I will be presenting on Wednesday. I never…
Well today is day 10 of the 30 days to being a better blogger challenge. I have managed to keep up. Day 4 I updated my creative commons license. Day 5 I globalized my blog by adding a Google translation widget to my side bar. Day 6 I asked non-blog readers to look at my blog and give me feed back to its look, feel and ease of use. Day 7 I invited a colleague to be a guest blogger,…
Today is day 3 of the challenge 30 Days to being a better blogger. Today we were to thank those who linked to our blogs, helping make those connections that make the web the web. I thanked the 2 individuals who most recently linked to my blog. If you get the change please take a look at what they have to say. IMC Guy and To Learn Twice. Yesterday we were to add some tools to look at the statistics…
Steve Dembo has issued a challenge 30 days to being a better blogger. I have been neglecting my blog of late and hope to participate in this challenge. Today is Day one, fixing up the about page. I had updated mine a few months ago but will updating today. Maybe I should place a note on my calender to update the page every few months.