Yet Another Wordle
I was on vacation when the Wordle craze started, but I still found it compelling. Thought I would take a look at how it viewed my blog posts for the last month. Pretty, and some interesting words jump out at me.
"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
I was on vacation when the Wordle craze started, but I still found it compelling. Thought I would take a look at how it viewed my blog posts for the last month. Pretty, and some interesting words jump out at me.
Meet my granddaughter Molly! She will be 2 weeks old this Thursday! Linda and I are spending the week up in Natick MA with Molly and my daughter Melissa and her husband Chris. Somehow, after playing with Molly all day, blogging is the furtherest thing from my mind! Not to mention my end of year… Read more Why I Am Not Blogging This Week
Our office is in the midst of packing up to move across campus to the Grace Harris Hall. Moving is one of those routine things in my life. In 22 years in the Navy, Linda and I moved 12 times. There is an old Navy saying that three moves is the equivalent of one good… Read more Change
Yesterday, I started my update of the educational blogs that I follow, noting that my initial post “Education Blogs” is still relevant. Those yesterday and today are listed alphabetically and not meant to denote priority order – I find all of them relevant, and there are a dozen others that I tried for awhile and… Read more Maturing Educational Reader (Pt 2)
Doing a Lunch and Learn session tomorrow on PLEs. At Jeff Nugent’s suggestion, I tailored it around my own journey this year in building my PLE. Having a little problem with SlideShare embed…so above is the presentation but click here to view. We will see which generates more conversation, my face-to-face session or this blog… Read more My PLE Journey
. My wife I and stepped away from technology yesterday and spent the afternoon in the Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens here in Richmond. . It is still early in spring and the air was a bit chilly, but it was amazing to see the rich colors that were evident. The gardens have several ponds and… Read more Spring Has Arrived
3. 1 4 1 5 9 2 6 5 3 5 8 9 7 9 3 2 3 8 4 6 2 6 4 3 3 8 3 2 7 9 5 0 2 8 8 4 1 9 7 1 6 9 3 9 9 3 7 5 1 0 5 8 2 0… Read more Happy Pi Day (3.14)
I enjoy reading Will Richardson’s blog Weblogg-Ed because it is always insightful and relevant. Will’s rant this past weekend on “URGENT: 21st Century Skills for Educators (and Others) First” obviously hit some buttons in the blogosphere. Posted March 9th, it now has 96 comments (to date) and growing. The preponderance of comments back Will’s view… Read more Will’s Hot Button
The April 2008 issue of MIT’s Technology Review has six pages of stunning visualizations of social networks. The article, “Between Friends,” by Erica Naone, provides views such as the ones below. I have found Technology Review to be a gold mind of future oriented thinking and love their website! And as this article illustrates, Web… Read more Stunning Visualizations
I attended the MLA webcast on Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices today and thought it would be a good opportunity to test out Cover It Live, which I saw Barry Dahl use at eLearning 2008. Click below to view my notes: My initial impression – Cover It Live (link) is a nice note-taking tool.… Read more Web 2.0 Webcast