Back in the US. Driving I95 N for the next 5 hours. #
bomb threat at my daughter’s university. Evacuated everyone. "bomb" thread package ended being a student’s multimedia project. Scary! #

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Last morning in BSAS. Sky is crying just as I will be in a few hours when I have to leave. At least will only be for a few months, #
@josepicardo @lbilak Buenos Aires es una de las ciudades mas lindas del mundo. Tienen que hacer planes de visitar. #
@nzchrissy has arrived safely in Argentina [...]

Last full day in Buenos Aires Going shopping to Belgrano with my friend. Beautiful weather continues. #
sitting in my mom’s patio. Wifi reaching here. Beautiful blue argentinean sky above me. Don’t want to leave tomorrow #

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Starting to use favorites on Twitter to bookmark from my iPhone. When back on laptop, transfer links to my del.icio.us #
Working on an article for elementary school principals about web2.0. What would you want to let them know? #
@willrich45 Hola Woodward Academy from Buenos Aires, Argentina. #
@GingerTPLC Hello from Buenos Aires Argentina #
@johnjohnston [...]

Beautiful day in Buenos Aires. Just returned from a walk in the Recoleta area. Now off to a Kaffeeklatsch at the house of best friend’s mom. #

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Twitter has taken on a very important role in my online networking. I have written about Twitter-Changes in Networking back in December 07.
Since then my networking habits have changed again, but in this post I don’t want to talk about what twitter is nor how and why I use it. Instead I want to show [...]

As of this afternoon we are 127 members strong @teachablemoment. Everyone is trying to figure out how to use, make time for @teachablemoment and how to access from school, since Twitter is blocked in some school districts.
We had the first shoutout from @reuw from Israel. Unfortunately there were few responses at the time that he [...]

It has been some amazing 2 days. On Saturday evening, I created the @teachablemoment twitter account. I let my network know about it through a blog post and through Twitter.

Then the followers started rolling in…

Then coolcatteacher announced it through a twitter…

That put us to almost 100. This morning� the 100th member to @teachablemomentstarted following.

Not that [...]

Following an idea that sprung out at me while I was writing my previous post, I have decided to create a Teachable Moment Shoutout account on Twitter.
The idea is as follows:
We are all looking to inspire and create teachable moments for our students. Many times these are impromptus, non-planned discussions and activities. Sometimes they pass [...]

Tom Barrett wrote a blog post” GeoTweets: Inviting your network into the classroom“, introducing a fabulous idea for the classroom.
A few moments before the children came in from lunch, I asked my network to challenge the children to find them in Google Earth, to search and discover their location from a few scraps [...]