I just read a post by Lucy Gray on how to draw the line with LinkedIn relationships. Lucy says she is sometimes uncomfortable denying relationships, but really wants to keep LinkedIn for professional relationships. I agree with her on this stance and think her outlook is one that I share, but with one addition. If [...]
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Hats off to Lucy Gray, an edublogger and nationally recognized speaker who has been putting out lists of daily links. I usually find one or two of them that tickle my fancy including this one on the five stages of twitter acceptance… I go in spurts using Twitter. That in itself is problematic for me. [...]
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As I mentioned in my previous post, I saw Lucy Gray present at the ICE COLD conference this past weekend. During her presentation on using Google Tools in the classroom, she touched on Google Reader, RSS in general, and some recommendations for best practices surrounding RSS. One thing that caught my attention was her recommendation [...]
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This past Saturday I attended the 2008 ICe COLD Mini-Conference in Lisle, IL. It was a three hour, three session conference with what I’d estimate to be between 30 and 40 attendees. At $5 for non-ICE member and $3 for members, it was a bargain. The first session I went to was on using Wikis [...]
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