tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36944491865667405502024-03-13T07:49:22.071-07:00Thinking Outside the Balks!Things happening in my classroom,<br>
and my take on education.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10422674860554420527noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694449186566740550.post-27493600394033730602018-04-15T12:45:00.000-07:002018-04-15T12:45:36.524-07:00Comparing Twitter and Instagram<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ve been on Instagram for maybe a year now, and I have formed some opinions. In fact, so many opinions that I came up with this blog post based on <b>Reasons I don’t like IG</b>! First and foremost, I don’t feel that it facilitates a professional learning community as elegantly and conveniently as Twitter does. There is sharing and collaboration, but having everything centred around images limits your ability to share, network, and connect ideas together. That being said, I feel like IG is a bit friendlier (probably because I’m not really seeing the targeted cyberbullying, which is much easier to hide behind private profiles) and since everything is based on images, there are less posts then with Twitter, so less nastiness (this is just the impression I’ve gotten over the last year, it isn’t backed up by data that I’ve seen).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here, in no particular order, is a chart outlining some comparisons between Twitter and Instagram:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><u>Instagram:</u></b> If I follow someone, I can’t tell if they’re following me (or if I can, no one has showed me where to look/how to tell - it’s not obvious or intuitive… maybe I should ask my students!?)</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Twitter:</u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Following” “Follows You”. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Simple. Intuitive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">Users</span></span></h2>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Instagram:</u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Can’t easily tell if someone is following me, though when it says “follow back” this is obviously implied.</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Twitter:</u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mouse over someone's profile, or click: it clearly says “Following” and/or “Follows You”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">Groups (organize who you follow)</span></span></h2>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Instagram:</u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">None. Don’t know who a person is or where I met or how i know (especially challenging with alternate usernames). No way to organize (I suppose the way around this is to just make lots of accounts - which some people do: often with the word “spam” in the handle)</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Twitter:</u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">As many lists as you like. Follow people and still mute them (eg. High Volume tweeters)</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Instagram:</u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hootsuite sends the picture to your device as a notification. You still have to post it (basically you just get a reminder, with most of it all setup for you already. However, if you miss the notification then it doesn’t go out!)</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Twitter:</u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hootsuite sends it out exactly as requested. Also, no picture required! Less work to schedule 10 text posts then to do one IG scheduled image post. No worries about missing notifications or forgetting key, time-sensitive posts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conversation</span></span></h2>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Instagram:</u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Everything must be based (at least initially) on an image. You can’t “reply-all” unless you type individual names in.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><u>Twitter:</u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </span>Reply all, or at mention someone easily. Conversation can start out of the blue, evolve organically.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sharing</span></span></h2>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Instagram:</u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you see something you like so much you want to share with your network, you need to screen capture, which is much more onerous. Might be able to do it with a separate app (but WHY?!)</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Twitter:</u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">One button: Retweet (plus you can also quote tweet)</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Instagram:</u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don’t seem to work in either picture descriptions or in comments. Apparently they now work in my IG bio (only)</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Twitter:</u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Type a link in, even gets shortened for you by Twitter.</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Instagram:</u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Have to sign up for business tools to access (on my list of things to do).</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Twitter:</u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Accessible on every page and tweet (of your own content).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">Notifications</span></span></h2>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Instagram:</u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Overemphasis on likes, harder to find things that actually matter to me (ie. mentions)</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Twitter:</u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Can sort between mentions and all notifications. Can also drill down more specifically with notifications.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">Notifications</span></span></h2>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Instagram:</u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Can’t tell which picture is being referenced in lock-screen notifications (unless it is a comment I believe)</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Twitter:</u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lock screen says that someone I know RT’d something… but doesn’t say who was the original author!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">Embedding</span></span></h2>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Instagram:</u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don’t think i can embed a feed on our website (or any website) - if you can I haven’t figured it out yet. You used to be able to do this using Storify, but that has closed down.</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Twitter:</u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Embedded. Multiple accounts in fact, on multiple webpages.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">History/Archive</span></span></h2>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Instagram:</u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">IG has the “story” which disappears after a day… I don’t understand the appeal, but then again I am a history major at heart: I know that 90% of what we know about the middle ages comes from 10% of that population. If I am going to go to the trouble to make some image, and post it… I don’t want it to disappear the next day. You can save things privately.</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Twitter:</u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Can search far back. Can also download your archive.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It may sound like I really hate Instagram, but that is not entirely correct. I just don’t prefer it, and I am not visiting it every day for the most part. I don’t find that they recommend interesting stuff much on the search page, so I am not looking much at other peoples’ stuff. I find I can scroll through my home screen and catch up quickly on what people have posted since the last time I looked. There are however, some things that I really do like about Instagram. Here they are:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">Character Limit</span></span></h2>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Instagram:</u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">None. Enough said.</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Twitter:</u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">140 or 280… there are still some differences based on whether my iPad/iPhone software is up-to-date, latest version of the app. Sometimes I feel like replies are shorter than they should be.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hashtags</span></span></h2>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Instagram:</u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">With no character limit, this opens lots of possibilities to make really unique ones that won’t get hijacked by spam marketing. With a good hashtag, you can curate your photos with pinpoint accuracy.</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Twitter:</u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Considering the character limit, you need to be picky about what you tag. Also, more popular or well used tags get lots of spam and unrelated links, making it harder to curate things.</span></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Instagram:</u></b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Edit button right at the top. Works really well for cross posting through IFTTT for people who don’t have the same brand on IG and Twitter. That way I put the Twitter handle in the original post, then once IFTTT has run it’s script, I go and edit the post to change the handle to the right IG one.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here’s the kicker: engagement. Students are much more prevalent at this time on Instagram, and since they engage much more with the content there than on our Twitter page, I stay! Twitter is great for embedding on the school website, following local news, connecting with other schools, teachers, and board staff, and some parents. So I switched my mindset and I only use Twitter for text based interactions, and all my photos go on Instagram. Then, using IFTTT software, my IG pics are posted automatically to my Twitter account, killing two birds with one stone so to speak. After that I manage my notifications as if I had posted the pictures twice manually. The key time saver in this mind shift is the avoidance of double posting.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I started developing this mindset while teaching Language (thanks in large part to my colleague, Teacher-Librarian Jennifer Mohamed), and the emphasis on writing texts for different purposes and audiences. Social media is great for thinking about and practicing these crucial areas of writing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">In conclusion, IFTTT? Love it. You should look into it! Very simple, and very handy. Also very versatile, since you can connect many different things. (I should probably do a post just about this specifically.) IG? Meh - I’ll stay, but I’m not spending a lot of time. Twitter? Yes yes yes. As much as there is junk out there, I would still say it is a key aspect of my teaching career thus far, both in terms of leadership and learning. I went looking for something on my Media timeline a little while ago, to forward to a colleague. I scrolled back through three or four years, and realized just how much I have grown, even in that short amount of time! So, if you aren’t on Twitter, I would recommend checking it out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Did I miss something? If you disagree with me about something in my points above, please let me know in the comments. I’m trying to maintain an open learning stance - as teachers we should model lifelong learning for our students after all - so I’d be glad to hear from you!</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10422674860554420527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694449186566740550.post-10042229591209667192015-02-09T08:30:00.000-08:002015-02-09T08:30:00.543-08:00Digging into MineCraftYesterday I spent a bunch of time hanging out on Skype with Liam (aka Praxismaxis aka GamingEdus) O'Donnell. All of this was in preparation for getting Donview students onto the GamingEdus multi-school MineCraft server. I first met Liam at ECOO at the MineCraft meetup social event one evening, but this was the first time I had really had a good conversation with him.<br />
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It was really exciting to listen to someone who is really passionate about how this particular piece of technology can impact students, and it was neat to hear what he is doing in his classroom and how he is collaborating online with colleagues. He was also excited to hear about the work I am looking to do around MineCraft and 3D printing.<br />
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He was very patient and helpful (which I am tremendously grateful for), and as someone who is more or less still classified as a noob, I learned a lot! I was able to learn about the white list, and how to use the PvP arena! One thing I discovered is that I still have a lot to learn about things like scripting, and plugins on the server. I also learned that the server is set out very similar to the teacher server. This was important information since I've gained some familiarity with that world so I was able to transfer my knowledge from those experiences.<br />
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The server has Creative and Survival modes, it has a super flat land, and it even has a TNT section. The entry spawn point is in Creative mode (like in the teacher server), and that's where all the portal's are for all the different schools that are sharing the server. These portals link to parts of the world spread out all over the map.<br />
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I watched and learned as Liam showed me how to move about using coordinates. We found a spot that was "black" uncharted territory on the map. It had a village in a valley below a hill, a temple off in the distance, and three different biomes close by: a savannah, a desert, and a tropical forest. Liam built the portal on the top of the hill, using our school colours blue and gold. It was pretty neat to see a clean landscape - ready to be built.<br />
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With the Donview section all set-up we're ready to roll. I'm hoping to test it out first thing tomorrow morning with some HSP students. I'm excited to see what my students and I can come up with. Stay tuned for more.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10422674860554420527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694449186566740550.post-10370225285438198932014-12-29T07:50:00.002-08:002014-12-29T07:50:35.663-08:00Testing out a TDSB Chromebook <h2 style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I don't like that the keyboard has a bit less functionality. For example I'm a huge fan of shortcut keys to improve workflow efficiency. I've been trying to use control and arrow keys to get to the end of a sentence or line (because typically this is faster than using the track pad) - however, there is no end key, and less option keys than I typically use on my Mac. Also - THERE"S NO CAP LOCK!!! Which is a bit weird to be honest - typing with your pinky finger down (note the " instead of ' above).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As for the OS/Software, it operates exactly as advertised. The 7 second bootup is great (compared to a regular computer, and even compared with taking a smartphone out of sleep mode). For this the fact that it just works brings you very quickly to the point where you don't even think about it. This says more about the increase of how much of everything is done directly online in the cloud than anything else.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I don't like the TDSB email system (OWA - Outlook Webmail) on the Chromebook because it requires SilverLight - and which I guess can't be installed? Maybe this plugin can be downloaded for Chrome? (More research required). These are "managed devices" so perhaps TDSB central IT will update this for me so that I can have a more functional inbox. (Or perhaps they will finally give up on OWA and just switch us all to gmail, since student email is now through the gmail skin).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I do like how fast it loads up new browser windows. I don't like that there is some difficulty capturing a screenshot (again, no obvious buttons on the keyboard - more research required?). I really like how fast and easy I could make a screen capture video using "Snagit" (came with the Enterprise solution, but easily found on the Chrome store). The problem was that this app didn't seem to be able to record one part of the screen: the top bar was not accessible. I had to take a pic with my phone to get the top right corner. (I was trying to compare the differences between the top bar in the managed user account to a personal Google account.)</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10422674860554420527noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694449186566740550.post-67765171833217267872014-12-10T05:15:00.000-08:002014-12-10T05:15:48.556-08:00Hour of Code - PA AnnouncementsI know it's literally "Old School" to do this, but we do still do them so I thought I would share for all the other schools that still do this! Here are some announcements I created that our student announcers are reading on the PA system each morning this week to promote CS Ed week and the Hour of Code event. Feel free to borrow/use/remix these for your own school.<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>Person1:</b> Hey did you know that this week is CS Ed week</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>Person2: </b>What's that?</span><br />
<b style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Person1: </b><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Computer Science Education week!</span><br />
<b style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Person2: </b><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Is that when you do that Hour of Code?</span><br />
<b style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Person1: </b><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> That's right! The Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that ANYBODY can learn the basics. </span><br />
<b style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Person2: </b><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I guess we will be doing that in IT class with Mr. Hann?</span><br />
<b style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Person1:</b><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Yes. Though sadly did you know that 9 out of 10 schools don't teach coding.</span><br />
<b style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Person2: </b><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Well maybe doing an hour of code can change that!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><u>Together</u></b>: LET'S CODE!</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Person1:</b><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> More girls tried computer science last year than in the last 70 years. 15 million students worldwide learned an Hour of Code, including over 10 million girls!</span><br />
<b style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Person2: </b><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">But isn't coding more for boys?</span><br />
<b style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Person1:</b><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> NO WAY! Computer science is about thinking and problem solving, things that both girls and boys can do!</span><br />
<b style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Person2: </b><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The CEOs of Yahoo and YouTube are women, to name a few. </span><br />
<b style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Person1:</b><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> But we can do better. If you are a girl, consider going into computer programming as a career - start with one Hour of Code this week!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><u><b>Together</b></u>: LET'S CODE!</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Person1:</b><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Have you tried the Hour of Code yet?</span><br />
<b style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Person2: </b><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Yes! I made Frozen characters Elsa and Anna code an awesome snowflake!</span><br />
<b style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Person1:</b><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> That means you are one in a 100 million! </span><br />
<b style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Person2: </b><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">If you want to try it on your own, click online to hourofcode.com</span><br />
<b style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Person1:</b><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Join the biggest ever learning event in the world.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10422674860554420527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694449186566740550.post-19476862839575101692014-04-04T05:00:00.000-07:002014-04-04T05:00:00.606-07:00Epic Failing - Live in Class and Online<b>Friday - last period</b>. It's the last day of the week, at the end of the day. Perhaps this is not the greatest time to reveal a new project, but I'm running out of time before June, so I go ahead, showing them the shared Google docs each group will be using to plan their project. I send them home to work on it.<br />
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<b>Friday - 9:00 pm</b>. I realize I forgot to transfer the homework questions/notes into all the documents - I only did the one that I showed in class. Argh! Only 3 students have logged in so far (and they couldn't work because of my mistake). Is this good or bad? I had told them they needed to login more than once to allow people to post first, and then to comment later.<br />
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I am risking failure as a teacher, attempting to innovate with a big "PBL" (Project Based Learning) culminating project: each group is making a pinball machine. They are still getting the same content as the rest of the grade 8s, but we are going about it a different way, in the hope that we can better engage my struggling learners, and provide deeper (scaffolded) challenges for my more advanced learners.<br />
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The project will be a real "DT" project that brings together all their current core subjects (except French, which I could probably work in if I really tried).<br />
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The only problem is, I don't feel like the students haven't caught my vision yet. Hmmm.<br />
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<b>Saturday morning</b>. I go online; there's almost no change since last night. Apparently I don't have any early risers in my class. I'm a bit panicky so I send a <a href="https://twitter.com/hm84dv/status/449895179281891328" target="_blank">reminder tweet</a> for class to get online and participate. <br />
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<b>Saturday afternoon</b>. Filled with dread, apprehension, not enough kids are participating!!! I begin to ponder what it would look like to photocopy worksheets for the rest of the year!?!<br />
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<b>Sunday morning</b>. We finally hit a milestone: one group has had all members log in at least once. We're off to a start, but it's still a work in progress.<br />
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So I started last weekend with both apprehension and anticipation. It's a huge project, complex, requiring responsibility and independence.
It opens the door for students' creativity, collaboration, and problem
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understand the material (taught in a different way)? Fail to do the
work? If so does that mean that I have failed?<br />
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Failure is good, healthy, and a normal part of growing up in particular, and of life in general. However, just because these are true doesn't make experiencing it any more pleasant! A child learning to walk falls down, often crying from the unpleasantness of it all, but almost always they hear the encouragement from a trusted adult: "Get back up". In fact there is a movement growing that seems to suggest that kids don't have ENOUGH risk in their life anymore, and that their isolation is to their detriment. See for example <a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/03/21/when-one-new-zealand-school-tossed-its-playground-rules-and-let-students-risk-injury-the-results-surprised/" target="_blank">this National Post article</a> about "risky" playgrounds.<br />
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I'm thankful though that my admin and superintendent(s) have seen fit to allow us to make attempts at innovation. We may be about to do an Epic Fail, but on the other hand we might be about to do something great! We won't know until we try!<br />
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I searched the cupboards at home last year and pulled out my (28 y.o.) sister's Fisher Price roller skates. You know the ones that go over shoes? I put them on my 4 y.o. last summer, along with helmet, gloves, knee pads and elbow pads. I know I know I may have been a bit overprotective, but he's sensitive and it was his very first time, so I prefaced his skating time by trying to prep him mentally: "you will probably fall down - if you do, what do you do next? Get up again. Right!"<br />
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Learning to walk as little kids we probably fell over a lot, but for each fall we got a little bit stronger! (plus they weren't really bad falls since we were generally closer to the ground at the time.) Imagine if we DIDN'T fall over? We would not know how to handle it when we it (eventually) happens to us as adults! Or imagine that we were TOO AFRAID of falling? We would spend the rest of our lives slithering, wallowing and crawling along the ground!<br />
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The story goes that as Caesar stepped over the Rubicon river, and pointed his troops towards Rome, he stated they were beyond the point of no return. There was no turning back: "The die has been cast". Thats the way I'm feeling right now. Fail or succeed I'm committed. So let's just ride into this new frontier and see what happens. I'll keep you posted (no doubt Live on YouTube, just like Pierce and Jeremy).<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10422674860554420527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694449186566740550.post-66149057841617117742013-11-12T09:58:00.001-08:002013-11-12T09:58:32.234-08:00Enders Game and Remembrance Day<br />
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The first time I read the book, the carefully woven plot of the story and it's characters, the fantasy world of the space station, the descriptions of the battles and the ingenuity of their strategies, sucked me in to turning page after page in voracious excitement and curiosity at what would happen next. The surprise revelation at the climax struck me with a <i>considerable</i> amount of force. </div>
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After months of anticipation, I had a chance to watch the movie Sunday night, on the eve of Remembrance Day. The movie, while well done and fairly true to the book, does more than just entertain. It is a stark reminder that war is hell, as it has been for millennia. Interestingly enough, as a reader/viewer, we are told that the bugs/aliens are the enemy, but they are otherwise portrayed in a largely sympathetic light. However it takes the entire story for Ender to come to the realization that "<u>the aliens are people too</u>"! (<i>There's no "Us vs. Them" … "There's ONLY us"</i>). The point of the game is to teach the children to win, not just this war, but win so that there are no more wars! (Where have I heard that before? "The war to end all wars")</div>
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Gamification is a big buzz word in education right now… it's in the title of this movie! is the only way to get through something unpleasant to make it a game? Why the deviousness? Why can't we do things for their own sake? Why did children need to be pawns in this war against the aliens? The reason given is that they are more creative and able to deal with complex pieces of information [like is suggested in the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U" target="_blank">Sir Ken Robinson creativity video</a>]. Is it also though because by gamifying this intergalactic struggle they have devised an effective plan to insulate Ender and the others against the moral quandaries of annihilating an entire civilization?</div>
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When Ender realizes that the Adults have ulterior motives for the final games, that they are in fact NOT games but the REAL thing, he feels betrayed. In the end, Ender decides to devote the rest of his life to the Remembrance of the Civilization that he destroyed. While not mentioned in the movie, in the book we are told how Ender becomes the "<i>Speaker for the dead</i>", telling a whole and unapologetic story of the aliens, and this becomes a standard funeral procedure for humans too.</div>
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From a teaching standpoint, it is telling that one of the major focal points of the story (which is somewhat glossed over in the movie, likely because of time constraints) is the battle games. Students are taught in traditional manners, but this is balanced by practical experience designed to teach children on their own terms the strategies and skills required for success as a military leader: collaboration, creative thinking, discipline, and responsibility among other things. The child soldiers learn by doing, by trying and experimenting. (I'm going to put aside the problematic issue of child soldiers for another day)</div>
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This brings us to Remembrance Day. Where soldiers are told to go, and what they are told to do can be awful, horrible, and at times perhaps even morally repugnant. But I think most soldiers do what they do as an unrepayable service to the people they serve, in the belief that what they are doing must be done for the greater good. And look at the great cost to many of these men and women in uniform. All too often these costs are visible in broken families, strained relationships, or lost limbs. Then there's the hidden cost of things like PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) and addictions.</div>
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This year, as I reflect on Enders Game, I'm brought back to a section of <u>Flanders Fields</u>:</div>
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Let us not break faith with the dead. As Ender spent the rest of his life in service to those who died, both human and alien, we too must face this Day of Remembrance faithfully, with sombre respect. War is nothing to glorify, yet we MUST honour the great cost of those who have gone before. With all my heart I pray "Never Again".</div>
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Edward Swift Burford - Grammas uncle, killed at Vimy Ridge, April 9, 1917</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Over the last few weeks I've had a number of
occasions to reflect on "the first time…" If you're a parent like me
than you are probably well versed in the concept of "firsts" ---
steps, words, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">This summer I went camping on my own for the
first time with my boys. It was also my first time leaving my camera at home
and only taking pictures with my smartphone. Recently I finally put together a
photo album of the best pictures and sat with my boys to reflect on our trip.
Looking at the album we reflected on my eldest son's first time cooking a hot
dog, first time camping without mommy, and first time taking a picture with
daddy's smartphone!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Approval
vs. Affirmation</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">With our boys in a Montessori program, I've
learned that when a child excitedly informs their guide (teacher) that they've
completed a task (a characteristic of first time experiences), they are not
told "Good Job" or "Well Done", but rather "You did
it!" or "Congratulations".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Instead of training children to depend on a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">subjective</i> note of approval from an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">external source</i>, this is designed to ensure that the children are
affirmed in their <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">own</b> recognition of
an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">objective</i> sense of
self-satisfaction. It's the difference between <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">tentatively</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">asking</b> the
teacher "did I do it right?" vs. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">confidently
informing</b> the teacher "I did it right!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">To this end, I had some of my own FIRSTs that I'd like to share. Not for your approval, but simply because I
see myself as that Montessori child recognizing my own milestone and running up
to the guide (my Twitter PLC) to proudly exclaim "look what I've
done!"</span></div>
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Class</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Due to our school's reorganization at the end
of September, I now have the challenge (and privilege) of adding a grade 7
Family Studies class to my teaching assignment. This is a huge addition for me.
I am already responsible for teaching Science and Technology in our DT lab
(including responsibility of the major areas of Safety, Tool Maintenance and
Material Inventory), as well as teaching Information Technology, and generally
being "the computer guy" in the school. Between all the classes I
teach in IT and DT, I have 23 classes across 3 grades and multiple levels
(regular, gifted, MID, Behaviour, LD/HSP). Family Studies makes 24. As such I
have been reticent to really get into the cooking side of things, preferring to
stay in the theoretical (nutrition labels, healthy body image) and the
technological (designing cookie cutters to print out on our 3D printer) as
these things are more within my comfort zone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">On Friday December 14<sup>th</sup> however, I
took the plunge and did my first cooking class. Recognizing the significance of
this "first" experience I took time during the class to
"live-tweet" what was happening, since ongoing documentation is an
important part of self-evaluation. Of course with technology comes problems,
and I couldn't get reception for some reason so I've had to post these tweets
after-the-fact. You can see my tweets organized <a href="http://storify.com/TeacherHann/1sttimefs-a-learning-journey" target="_blank"><b><u>here</u></b></a> on Storify -
a program I am also using for the first time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">As a result of this “First Time Focus” I am
pondering how to be more diligent at this practice in my own classroom. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Report Cards are supposed to reflect the
reaching of milestones, but how often do milestones coincide with a board
determined report card date?</i> Why should celebrations be limited to these
structured times without reflecting the fluidity of individual learners! I'm
wondering if I can use BYOD to get students to document their DT projects at
the end of each class, and then compile a photo album at the end to assist them
in preparing a self-evaluation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Too often we have trained students that
self-evaluation is the lowest kind, and that the evaluation that reflects real
learning and leads to good grades comes from the teacher alone. The pendulum
needs to swing back a bit I think. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">TeacherHann</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">February 23, 2013</span></div>
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NOTE: as a result of writing this blog I've decided to try changing my teaching
a little bit… yeah for professional reflection! <a href="http://outsidethebalks.blogspot.com/2013/02/dt-project-self-assessment-notes.html" target="_blank">ATTACHED HERE</a> are my notes on
ideas I might try with my next set of classes in Semester 2. If you have feedback
that might help me tweak these ideas, practically or theoretically, please send
me a note on Twitter or in the comments section)</span></i></div>
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Use:</span></u></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">-having a smartphone or camera in class is a
BIG responsibility and a HUGE privilege. DON’T treat this lightly or abuse the
privilege, it will be taken away!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">-you will ONLY get permission (in writing,
attached to the class clipboard) to have your devices with you at times when
you ACTUALLY have DT. So for example if DT is in the morning, you CANNOT have
your device with you in the afternoon. If you have gym the same part of the day
as DT, we will need to make alternate arrangements to meet at your lockers before
class to get your devices or to put them away at the end of class before going
to gym.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">-we will need to agree to some kind of class
code of conduct regarding these devices and consequences for improper use</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Procedures
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">-document your journey from start to finish using
your smartphone or camera</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">-take a picture of each thing you consider a
milestone – at minimum, take a picture of your progress once before the end of
class</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">-ensure these pictures are taken SAFELY (ie.
Make sure the machines are OFF and that you’re not a hazard to someone else who
is working)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">-NO people in the pictures! [for
privacy/security] [though you may have yourself in the picture at the end with
the finished product if you have parent permission]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">-curate an online compilation of your pictures
and narrate them in some way</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Self-Reflection
Content Expectations</span></u></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">In your reflection you must mention (either
along the way or at the end):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">-What tools did you use?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">-What procedures did you do?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">-Include dates</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">-Did you struggle at any point? Where? Why? How
could you have done better?</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Suggestions:</span></u></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">-Curate as you go! Don’t wait till the end to put all the pictures
together</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">-You may use any method you wish to curate your
pictures (Facebook album, Instagram, haikudeck, prezi, flickr, etc) Perhaps you
will teach me something new? Since this will be posted on the internet,
hopefully you will get feedback from others besides myself!?</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Rubric:</span></u></div>
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<td style="border: 1.0pt; border: solid black; mso-border-alt: .5pt; mso-border-alt: solid black; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 88.55pt;" valign="top" width="89"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.3pt 56.65pt 85.0pt 113.35pt 141.7pt 170.05pt 198.4pt 226.75pt 255.1pt 283.45pt 311.8pt 340.15pt; text-autospace: none;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">4</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">3</span></div>
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<td style="border-left: none; border: 1.0pt; border: solid black; mso-border-alt: .5pt; mso-border-alt: solid black; mso-border-left-alt: .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 88.55pt;" valign="top" width="89"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.3pt 56.65pt 85.0pt 113.35pt 141.7pt 170.05pt 198.4pt 226.75pt 255.1pt 283.45pt 311.8pt 340.15pt; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">1</span></div>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: 1.0pt; border: solid black; mso-border-alt: .5pt; mso-border-alt: solid black; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 88.55pt;" valign="top" width="89"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.3pt 56.65pt 85.0pt 113.35pt 141.7pt 170.05pt 198.4pt 226.75pt 255.1pt 283.45pt 311.8pt 340.15pt; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Content</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Includes
comprehensive outline of tools dates, and procedures</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Good
outline of tools, dates and most procedures</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Mentions
some (but not all) tools, dates and procedures</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Misses
key tools, dates, or procedures.</span></div>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: 1.0pt; border: solid black; mso-border-alt: .5pt; mso-border-alt: solid black; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 88.55pt;" valign="top" width="89"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.3pt 56.65pt 85.0pt 113.35pt 141.7pt 170.05pt 198.4pt 226.75pt 255.1pt 283.45pt 311.8pt 340.15pt; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Reflection</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Thoughtful,
honest reflection</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Reflective</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Reflective,
but superficial</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">No
reflection </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Pictures</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Excellent,
well planned photos, capture minor steps as well as major ones</span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: 1.0pt; border-bottom: solid black; border-left: none; border-right: 1.0pt; border-right: solid black; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: .5pt; mso-border-alt: solid black; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid black; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid black; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 88.55pt;" valign="top" width="89"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 28.3pt 56.65pt 85.0pt 113.35pt 141.7pt 170.05pt 198.4pt 226.75pt 255.1pt 283.45pt 311.8pt 340.15pt; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Good
photos, documents key steps, with some detail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Photos
include only the major steps, some photo flaws</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Photos
incomplete, missing major steps. Violates privacy expectation!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Sharing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Curation
has been shared and has received feedback. Is easy to transfer for school to
share too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Uses
a curation method that encourages and promotes sharing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Curation
hasn’t yet been shared</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Curation
discourages sharing</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10422674860554420527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694449186566740550.post-37763122747643619542012-12-02T14:18:00.000-08:002012-12-02T14:18:42.402-08:00Outside the... Balks? Huh?So everyone is curious about my title.<br />
<br />
Well as a lifelong learner (and product of the TDSB's gifted program) I've always been challenged to think creatively and try to do just what the title says.<br />
<br />
I've been pondering this whole blogging idea since Royan Lee's "<a href="http://spicylearning.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Spicy Learning</a>" blog was introduced to me over a year ago before going to <a href="http://ecoo.org/" target="_blank">ECOO11</a>. Up to that point I had assumed a personal brand was all about you know, buying DavidHann.com or whatever. <i>Surprisingly this isn't actually taken, even though I'm a Minnesota politician (born April 16, 1952) and a member of the Minnesota Senate representing District 42, who actually ran for governor too. [#WrongDigitalFootprint?]</i><br />
<br />
Anyways, at ECOO11 we talked a lot about a lot of things, including digital footprint (thanks <a href="http://mondaymollymusings.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">MzMollyTL</a>!) and being a role model for students online and so on. After drinking from that fire hose I've begun to implement a lot of the things I learned or was exposed to there - but it's taken me a while. The one thing I really didn't want to rush into was my brand. So I waited on it until the inspiration hit, and two weeks ago it did.<br />
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For the last few years, when I'm assigning a particular project, I like to challenge my gifted students (because life has come full circle that way). I like to say to them "THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX... B - A - L - K - S". They kind of stare at me and go "HUH?" But it makes them <b>think</b>!<br />
<br />
Going back even further in time, I can't claim the credit for the saying. It comes from one of my favourite "Silly" Albums - The BnL "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snacktime!" target="_blank">Snack Time</a>" album and the song "Crazy ABC's written by Steven Page and Ed Robertson. Here's the first few lines from the <a href="http://www.icelebz.com/lyrics/barenaked_ladies/snacktime/crazy_abc's.html" target="_blank">lyrics</a> (if you are an english teacher - you could probably work this concept into a really neat assignment):<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;">A is for aisle</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;">B is for bdellium</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;">C is for czar</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;">And if you see him, would you mind telling him-</span></span></span></b></span><br />
<br />
The whole song goes on like this and is uproariously funny. If you haven't heard it, and you're a teacher, and you like funny things, give it a listen!<br />
<br />
So they go back and forth, and at the end they have this little jokesy conversation that goes something like this...<br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;">Okay, when you say zed,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;">For the benefit of our American friends</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;">You really mean Zee, right?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;">No I mean Zed, like, like Zed Zed Top.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;">Zed Zed Top?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;">Yeah, you know the guys with the big long beards,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;">well, except the guy whose name is Beard,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;">he has a moustache</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;">I always thought that was interesting</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;">You done with the alphabet?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;">No extra letters I haven't heard of?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;">I think so.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;">Well this was a great help, I think, you know,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;">the contribution you made to world literacy</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;">Well, I'm just saying, kids</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;">I'm just saying</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Think outside the box a little bit</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Box with an "r"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Yeah, well, no, box with a b-a-l-k-s, like a pitcher.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Ahh, as opposed to b-a-c-h-s,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Right, think outside the "balks"</span></span><br />
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And hopefully THAT will help you understand my blog title! :) Thanks for reading!<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10422674860554420527noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694449186566740550.post-13017011740513893952012-11-28T19:07:00.000-08:002012-11-28T21:41:09.087-08:00Creating and Maintaining a Digital Footprint<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">As part of my goal to develop my digital footprint, I am beginning the process of blogging. To that end, I am experimenting with several different blog platforms. In the process I am establishing my “brand” to ensure that it is there when I need it. (And I don't have to pay big bucks to someone else to try and get it back in the future).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">This was an issue that happened to my school, when I went to establish a digital footprint for the school on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and YouTube. I got “schoolname.site” for all of them except Facebook. Someone had beaten me to it. When it comes to Search and Hits, the Brand Name matters! My schools FaceBook page (for some time) came up second in the search behind some former students page about the school! So even if I don’t use a particular site that much, I've claimed the name at least for future use, since I’ve realized the importance of establishing and protecting the “brand”.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">So this is it… here we go. My first Blog!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10422674860554420527noreply@blogger.com0