Things are brewing on the 31 Days -Commenting Challenge Wiki . Everyone is adding their ideas to what kind activities will keep the participants interested, active, and engaged. We are looking for activities that will challenge our thinking, writing and will aid in the process of becoming better commenters.
Michele Martin is putting together some [...]

xFruits - Compose your information system
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EdTech Workshop: The Comment Challenge. I’m up for it!
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So here is the logistics part of commenting.
Sometimes, depending on the blog theme or where you are on the blog, the comments are not visible to see right away. When you are on the main blog page (ex. www.langwitches.org/blog ) you will only read the post, but no comments are visible. You need to look [...]

It is amazing to get up in the morning and see and read the wonderful work that Kim and Sue are doing in the Eastern hemisphere while we are sleeping on other side of the globe.
Kim wrote a post How to participate in the Comment Challenge and created a 2008 Comment Challenge Wiki for anyone [...]

Blogging in and for the educational field is:

not only about posting
not only about leaving and receiving comments
not about promoting your blog on Twitter or other sites
not about getting a high ranking on Technorati

It should be:

all about personal learning
sharing thoughts, ideas, resources
reading
writing
the process
and encouraging others in their learning journey (we are educators after all)

It is only [...]

Two Flip Cameras by PureDigital arrived today at school, thanks to our wonderful Drama teacher, Mrs. B. I had to try it out, since I was interested in the quality and the level of intuitive use it had for in classroom and field trip application.
David Pogue from the New York Times reviewed this little [...]

When I arrived at school, I had had already phone calls from teacher colleagues and others stopped me in the hallway to let me know that they saw Matt Lauer on the Today’s Show. They wanted to let me know that he was in ARGENTINA!!!
Buenos Aires was his first stop in his "Where in the [...]

Here’s My First Five Tips For Writing Better Blog Posts — What Are Yours? | The Edublogger
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More than one face to Cyberbullying in the classroom | Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts :: David Truss
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Villainy, Inc. | Maryland Public Television
innovative site for middle grade mathematics students.
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I wanted to share, but also highlight for my own sake, the following PowerPoint that was created by datruss on Slideshare.net.
I like the point this presentation makes. Teachers can continue to:

teach the way educational institutions have taught for the last 100 years
ignore new tools that will bring the world to their students
tell themselves that materials [...]

I am reading more and more in conversations on Twitter , on blog posts and in e-mails that many edubloggers are getting discouraged of writing their blog. They are discouraged for the fact that they are not receiving comments or are feeling brushed off and left out by so called “probloggers”. A few weeks ago, [...]