C&I 401 – Week 2: Delicious & Diigo

Hello again to my ISU 401 students. As promised, I’m going to introduce Delicious and Diigo – they are now best friends and quite closely linked.
Here is a great short video on how Delicious and other social bookmarking sites work:

You can start your own Delicious site and start saving websites (and [...]

NECC 2008 is just around the corner

Since it’s almost June, I’m getting more and more excited about the upcoming National Education Computer Conference (NECC) in San Antonio. Hundreds of presentations, thousands of participants, a host of vendors, and most importantly, many of my personal learning network friends. I keep contact with them through Twitter, Diigo and Facebook.
This picture is one example [...]

For My Summer 2008 C&I 401 Students

First of all, I commend all of you on a great Week 1. You’ve completed several tasks that have pushed you into new areas of technology use. Great job!
I just finished reading all of your entries into Discussion 1 and had a great time seeing the wheels turning as you processed the Web 2.0 [...]

… but I’m an only child … TweetWheel

I really am … I know, some of you already figured that out … you’ve witnessed the temper tantrums. I knew that my Twitter network kept me connected to many, many like-minded educators, but I never stopped to think what the connections looked like – very cool visual representation of our Six Degrees of Separation.

Each [...]