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Hey! Highs in the low 80s. Who wouldn't love that in August. It was a pleasure to work with you today. I'm at the airport right now, waiting for my flight to Austin... - dfw
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This is a personal experiment, a tool that I have been developing and adapting to all sorts of ideas. It's not publicly available. If you would like to play with something like this, you might try one of the following tool:
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I think that you would use it selectively, not all the time. But if it is a lecture or movie tat taps into the learners impressions, this would be a great tool. The basic idea is respecting the learner and what they can learn from each other. - dfw
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There are lots of reasons to use Twitter. But to me, it's a professional development engine. I connect to people who tweet pieces of information that I need and can dig more deeply into. - dfw
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Some presenters will actually have a display so that the entire audience can see the backchannel. Not me ;-) Backchanneling is the term for this sort of subterranean conversation. - dfw
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Good question. Simply, you were the only people using it. But Knitter will captured Twitter messages that are hash tagged with #colearners. So if I have people in the audience who prefer to use Twitter, because their Twitter network has access to their comments, then if they hash tag them with #colearners, then you can read them as well. - dfw
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To me, the strongest advantage of Knitter is this -- that I can archivethe transcript and make it part of your online handouts. You are contributing to the handouts. If I were in the classroom, I'd look for a tool that allowed me to share the transcript with parents. - dfw
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I have a friend, a principal, who has teachers record their faculty meeting notes onto a Google Docs document. - dfw
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Not safe for kids. Look at OpenSim. You might consider ActionGrid (not sure about the name, and I'm not on the Internet right now). They host the OpenSim environment for you and keep it secure. - dfw
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You have to be 18 to use Second Life. But consider that many younger children are using environments like Club Penguin and others. - dfw
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Look at this blog entry - http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/?p=3155 - dfw
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Indications are that this is true. But I wonder about the numbers. It was trending for a time, and there was definitely a fall back. But how strong are the continuing residents. - dfw
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I would use it in a math class. Have students making things work, and then talk about it using the language of numbers. - dfw
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Certainly. But think about this. Can you have rigor without audience. If so, I would love to hear your definition of 'rigor." - dfw
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Yep! - dfw
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I say, zero tolerance. Stop forgiving them for continuing to prepare their students for the 1950s - dfw
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It's not a school district problem. It's a national problem. I can't solve it. But I can demand that it be solved. - dfw
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Yes! 1:1 is a necessity. It's a matter of when, not whether. - dfw
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Actually, it's growing in public schools much much faster than I would ever have suspected it would. - dfw
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It's probably in the bibliography. - dfw
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Like I said in the Q&A. We need to challenge each other to show the evidence of the validity and appropriateness of the information. - dfw
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Stephen Downes... - dfw
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Advertizing. They say that once you get two-thousand daily readers, then you can start making income using Google Ads. It's easy, and some people make a living by blogging. They may run 15 different blogs, but it's about making yourself an expert on something that people care about, and then sharing it. - dfw
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They're two different tools. I was using iGoogle as an aggregator, to attract the content to me. - dfw
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