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“RT” stands for Re-Tweeting. That is when you take someone else’s tweet and send it off as your tweet plus the added acknowledging RT @username to the original sender.
It was not until recently that the web version of Twitter added a “Retweet” button.

Once you click the Retweet button, it copies the tweet and adds the [...]

I wrote about the power of “The Network” in Personal Learning Network Thoughts.  I would say that Twitter and my blog are the most important tools to the puzzle that make up my PLN.
It takes time and effort to build, grow, maintain and nurture my PLN. I get out of it what I put in [...]

Just a few days ago, Andrea Hernandez (edtechworkshop) and I had a  conversation about our Personal Learning Network.
A “working definition” by David Warlick says that a Personal or Professional Learning Network:
involves an individual’s topic oriented goal, a set of practices or techniques aimed at attracting or organizing a variety of relevant content sources, selected for [...]

CSI- Crime Scene Investigation at school!
Third graders find unidentified skeleton on school campus.
What is one to do, when you find such a specimen on school grounds? Students across grade levels took a mini fieldtrip to the pond on campus to examine the skeleton. The BIG question for everyone, including teachers was: WHAT kind of [...]

So, what does a traditional Argentinean Asado (BBQ) have to do with Social Networking in the 21st century?

While sitting around a large table with three generations on Father’s Day in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the conversations was

animated
intense
funny
provocative
quiet
thoughtful
on different levels
educational
helpful
non related, but nevertheless informative
loud
disruptive
satisfying
in Spanish, German & English

…ALL at the same time.

Sitting back and observing and listening [...]

I have been blogging for over three years now. I use my blog to:

document my thoughts about educational technology and my journey as a connected teacher
share  educational resources, lesson plans, How-To guides, web 2.0 tools, experiences in the classroom
develop professional development workshops
sprinkle awareness about cultural, country and language specific differences among us

This blog is [...]

I believe that we need to teach our students to be able to extract information from a variety of sources. They do not only need to be able to read text, but they also need to be able to:

extract
comprehend
evaluate
summarize
re-use
re-mix

information from other forms of media. They also need to be able to choose, use and be [...]

Melanie Holtsman blogged about another fun Twitter site, that allows you to make a Mosaic of your Twitter friends or followers. She is right on when she says:
I learn from my “twits” through their “tweets” and I have over 300 people all over the world that I can ask questions…..AND get answers!
So THANK YOU to [...]

I learned from Jane’s E-Learning Pick fo the Day about a cool little Twitter site:
Twitter Sheep
Enter your Twitter username and password and it will create a Wordle-like cloud of the bio profiles of your followers.

This is a word cloud generated from the bios of @langwitches’ followers.

I found an incredible site (from the UK) this morning, while googleing for "SmartBoard" and "Geography".

Welcome to Oxfam- Mapping our World .
Mapping our World is a whiteboard teaching product for 8 to 14 year olds.
It explores the relationship between maps and globes, and how different projections influence our perception of the world. It challenges the [...]