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David I look forward to reading your conversation 18 Oct 2012 - 14:11:08

Tyler Good afternoon 18 Oct 2012 - 14:12:10

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Kate Cormack This is interesting! :) 18 Oct 2012 - 14:14:19

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I want to try this with my students right away. 18 Oct 2012 - 14:13:18

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You should wear that suit again 18 Oct 2012 - 14:14:50

Alas, it no longer fits me, in oh so many ways. - dfw

RRU interesting, similar bbming with others in a similar event 18 Oct 2012 - 14:15:28

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Hey! 18 Oct 2012 - 14:13:47

Barbara What are some I the other tools like this to use in the classroom? 18 Oct 2012 - 14:14:18

Kate Cormack This is interesting! :) 18 Oct 2012 - 14:14:19

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Do you have the ability to kick users out of the chat? 18 Oct 2012 - 14:16:19

No! But I've only had one instance when there was a problem. Two guys dared each other to come up with the name of the most 1970s wrestlers. It was pretty funny. Fortunately, most of the tech-savvy teachers started conversing through a UStream page one of them set up. - dfw

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You should wear that suit again 18 Oct 2012 - 14:14:50

RRU interesting, similar bbming with others in a similar event 18 Oct 2012 - 14:15:28

SQ Do you have the ability to kick users out of the chat? 18 Oct 2012 - 14:16:19

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''Knitter Chat is a person experiment. I am constantly hacking it, trying out new features. Here are some similar tools I would recommend your looking at.

Backnoise -- http://backnoise.com
Backchan -- http://backchan.nl
Chatzy -- http://chatzy.com
Today's Meet -- http://todaysmeet.com/ (my favorite)

 ''  - dfw

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A more wrinkled brain? I don't know. I admit, that if you ware were likely not paying as close attention to my talk as you might have otherwise. But I suspect that the upside is equal, as learners are learning from each other learning experiences. I certainly wouldn't do this all the time. - dfw

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Thanks, I didn't know about this. But I'm not surprised that Richard Byrne would have such a page. - dfw

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Hmmm, that's an interesting idea. Playing as learning, and learning as play. I like it. - dfw

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It's much more adventurous -- game-like even. - dfw

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Cool! I'm going to have to read that! - dfw

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I'm really pushing hard this idea of teacher as master learner. I think that it could help to solve a lot of problems, not the least of which is teachers who are threatened to have technologies in the classroom that students are more comfortable with. If we are learners, it give us permission to learn from the students. - dfw

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A lot of people talk about transparency in schooling. But I think we need to make adult, lifelong-learning transparent. Bring our personal learning habits and accomplishment into the classroom. - dfw

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Oh yea! I still have my 10th grade slide rule. ;-) - dfw

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Well, I use the number 34. Actually it comes from a book that was written about ten years ago, so it should be 44. But that just doesn't have the same impact. - dfw

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My Dad, an accountant, use to bring home a machine he had to crank, in order for it to calculate. - dfw

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:-) I'd be happy with 49! - dfw

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That turned out to be a great demo, especially as the information didn't come from Wikipedia. - dfw

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Yes, but also have them defend what they find, defend its appropriateness. - dfw

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Yes! The last time I tried, it was flagged for deletion in less than 10 minutes. - dfw

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Yes! But even more -- valuing objective truth. Expecting and demanding it. - dfw

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It's a great demo, that I've done for a long time. - dfw

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Yes, but I wonder if we are actually all visual learners. I mean, it's what we're wired for, isn't it. We have to be taught to read. - dfw

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I agree! But I have to wonder if their learning practices might actually be more nature than sitting in a classroom, and paying attention. - dfw

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Publishing eBooks appears to be quite easy. - dfw

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I agree. It's not 100% there and there are problems. But it's the closest thing I've seen that is dedicated to infographics. - dfw

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Too true! - dfw

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This is going to sound weird and it will never happen. But I strongly feel that every teacher should have three to four hours of professional planning time every day. - dfw

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Yes! But I'd rephrase it a bit. They know how to use the tech. They don't need it to teach them to use it. They need us to help them learn to "work" the tech. - dfw

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But we have to go a whole lot further to describe these new learning sources -- rethink a lot about texts, and about teaching and learning. - dfw

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Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! - dfw

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Me too. In many ways, blogging is Passe. But it is still a hugely valuable writing environment for students (and adults) - dfw

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I certainly wish that I had been there for that one. - dfw

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That's an interesting turn of phrase. I wonder what it means. - dfw

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He would know! ;-) - dfw

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I love that one ... "reckless curiosity" - dfw

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We need creative solutions, and permission to get it wrong some times. - dfw

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I've often suggested that students learn library science skills. This may well be what I was talking about. - dfw

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Sooo sorry I missed it. - dfw

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:-) I think that's when the audience asks the speakers questions... - dfw

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It's a good question! - dfw

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Wow! - dfw

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And it's largely because of the Internet. But what we're seeing is simply our sense of literacy catching up with our new information landscape. - dfw

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I need to learn more about this! - dfw

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Yes! Walk in out of today, not out of your university experience of 5 or 25 years ago. - dfw

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It was a great presentation. - dfw

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Thank you organizers!!! - dfw

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