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Edelman Digital Bootcamp
I’m live-blogging EDB, look for several updates throughout the day. Other EDB updates: twitter, EDB website & blog Session 1 – Social Media 101 Erin Caldwell kicks off the day with her personal...
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Twitter in education: Practical solutions
We talked at EDB about using twitter with students: the benefits, the drawbacks, the logistics – including the 48 hours of twitter assignment that Karen Russell and Kaye Sweetser use. One logistical...
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Fear
“Yet I believe that school should be a safe place, the way home is supposed to be. A place where you belong, where you can grow and express yourself freely, where you know and care for the other people...
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The Golden Wall
I’m reading The Discovery of Heaven, a novel of ideas by Dutch author Harry Mulisch. One of the main characters, Onno, after a stint in politics, meditates on the nature of power. He claims that power...
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My job is to kill creativity
University professors… are curious forms of life. …They think of their bodies as transport for their heads. We educate children only from the waist up, focusing on their brain, and that too, only one...
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PR students on learning Twitter
I place a lot of emphasis on Twitter in my PR courses, but were not sure whether that was such a good idea – from their perspective. So I asked my PR students from the Spring 09 Stakeholder...
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Teacher tips for more effective grading
Most teachers, including those like me who absolutely LOVE teaching, consider grading a chore. It is repetitive, and it takes a lot of time. Here are some tips I learned from Linda Nilson at Clemson...
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