Summer Renewal 4: Mmmm, Del.icio.us

If you’ve been following along so far, you’re starting to accumulate some useful resources. You have some podcasts that you’re listening to. You’re reading some blogs. Maybe you’ve found a few other useful things along the way. At some point, you’re going to want to go back to these pages. For the first decade of [...]

Posted on June 26th, 2007 by John Schinker
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Summer Renewal 3: Read the Feed

“Check back frequently for updates,” the web site implores. “I don’t have anything important to say right at the moment. But I’m glad you stopped by, and I expect you to come back again tomorrow just in case I want to tell you something then.” I never check back for updates. If a web site [...]

Posted on June 20th, 2007 by John Schinker
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Summer Renewal 2: Drink From the Fire Hose

The development of the read/write web has made it much easier for people to post content online. We’ve moved away from a few people posting relatively static “reference” materials online to a LOT of people expressing opinions, reflecting on experiences, and holding conversations. Because of The Long Tail, some of these people are a lot [...]

Posted on June 14th, 2007 by John Schinker
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Summer Renewal 1: Podcasts

In the last two years, there have been two technologies that have had a transformational effect on my personal professional development. The first of these was podcasting. A podcast is a digital media file that is distributed through an RSS feed. I know, that’s a complicated, technical definition. Let me try again. A podcast is [...]

Posted on June 10th, 2007 by John Schinker
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Summer Renewal

Summer’s here! I don’t know anyone working in education as a teacher or a student who isn’t excited about the end of the school year. The countdown started weeks ago (months ago, in some cases). There’s something about that sense of completion that is so attractive. The job is done. Now, we can take some [...]

Posted on June 5th, 2007 by John Schinker
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