My Twitter Followers
This is a cool little application that creates a mosaic of the avatars of those who follow you on Twitter. Here is what mine looks like:
"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
This is a cool little application that creates a mosaic of the avatars of those who follow you on Twitter. Here is what mine looks like:
We had a fruitful faculty brown bag lunch conversation today. The topic was Building Connections and Communities through the Web. Ten folks present locally, and since Jeff Nugent was using UStream, another crowd actively joined via the internet. I used these slides to guide the conversation: Building Connections and Communities through the Web View more… Read more Timesharing Dogs
There was an interesting point raised by one of my VIF students in our online class taught by Jon Becker and myself this weekend. Half of our online class are Visiting International Faculty studying for their Masters in Education here at VCU, and half are Virginia teachers studying in our Ed Leadership graduate program. When… Read more An International View
A week from tomorrow, I am scheduled to lead a Brown Bag lunch session on “Building Community and Connections Through the Web.” Bud Deihl and I were brainstorming this session (and he earlier also blogged about it). As we talked, we realized that “community” is very nuanced. The following slide emerged from our white board… Read more Communities and Tools
Yesterday, Tom Peters, one of my heroes, listed The 19E’s of Excellence on his business management blog: If Not Excellence, What? If Not Excellence Now, When? The “19 Es” of Excellence: Enthusiasm. (Be an irresistible force of nature!) Energy. (Be fire! Light fires!) Exuberance. (Vibrate—cause earthquakes!) Execution. (Do it! Now! Get it done! Barriers are… Read more Excellence in E-Learning
I am sure that I will not be the only one blogging today about President Obama’s Inauguration speech. Bud Deihl and I walked over to the student commons and watched it with several hundred students and staff. Our new President crafted a wonderful speech with both hope and purpose in mind, founded on the idea… Read more Hope and Purpose