TweetFighter3 – How to flash blind teachers
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by Dean Groom @ large A three part Easter bonanza post about how Twitter makes people flash-blind because no one speaks the same language, why Twitter...
View ArticleWhy you can’t love more than 150 people at a time.
John Seeley Brown has been talking recently about a thing called a ‘process network’. He describes them as loosely coupled networks that can come together at a moments notice. Not loosely coupled at...
View ArticleHow to introduce educators to Twitter more effectively.
I’ve been thinking about Bianca’s post about being an individual. It seems that there are now so many #hashtags used as insignia that what was once a conversation between people, seems to be...
View ArticleWhen should you retire from Twitter?
Shortly before attending ISTE in San Antonio four years ago, I joined Twitter on the recommendation of Judy O’Connell. I remember people at the conference talking about it in the blogger’s cafe just...
View ArticleSteve Collis must pay
Steve Collis and his aircraft flight path video has been bugging me for weeks, so has trying to picture what the difference is between how social-networks use media to solve problems and how...
View ArticleThe internet is @@@@ing #####less
So I sat and wondered today as I watched another PowerPoint, how different things have become when it comes to even talking about places we communicate in. It’s non-cool these these days to use...
View ArticleTwitter’s race to being the worlds top classified small-ad channel.
Twitter is a text adventure game. The owners of the software control the rules, the user’s create the fiction and game-play is created though interactions with it. It’s a really popular game with...
View ArticleHow to RSS Twitter feeds in one line
Keeping up with what’s happening on Twitter is hard. There is so much flying past these days, it’s easy to miss the good stuff. Thankfully, people are using hashtags, which helps. The problem is that...
View ArticleProtected: I am right, so I get the right … idiot.
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View ArticleRifle’s Raft.
One aspect of blogging and social media I like is culture-watching. Today in NSW, teachers return to work and is marked once again by increased Twitter gruel. Seasonals wake from their holiday slumber...
View ArticleDon’t be a twork.
This post is reactionary. No offence, none taken. Its about why I don’t Twork and why you should consider both avoiding it — and be aware of people who do. I think they used to call it Twittetiquette...
View ArticleFirst person vs third person media experiences
One problem I see with assumptions about ‘going digital’ in education is that so far, it almost always means using technology and not understanding media. For example, few online commentators talk...
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