Jun 10 2009
Potpourri
or rather what I’ve been thinking about this week:
- I continue to be inspired by Dean Groom’s blog about technology and education. This post titled 5 Ways to create spectacular classrooms is loaded with good ideas and is also on my Links worth Saving page.
- I signed up for Dr. Scott McLeod’s Second Annual CASTLE Summer Book Club which will be reading and discussing Why Student’s Don’t Like School by Daniel T. Willingham You can still sign up through Friday, June 10 - I have an extra copy of the book, if you are local and interested.
- For class this week, I’ve been playing around on Twitter - you can find me at Twitter/KathJensen. In the middle of the experiment, the Time magazine article on Twitter by Steven B. Johnson hit and made me think about Twitter in new ways. I enjoyed being able to discuss the article right away with others who had read it. Twitter might stick with me but I wish followers with pornographic profile pictures would go away. More about Twitter in this NY Times newspaper piece on Twitter features and a NY Times magazine article by Thompson on digital intimacy.
I’m looking for an idea for my next class assignment on Web 2.0 platforms (or Web 3.0). I didn’t like Digg and am OK with Twitter but not as transformative as I was led to believe. Does anybody have any suggestions?