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04 Nov 09

TICAL - Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership

Will be speaking in Arkansas on February 17th at their TICAL conference. I'm so excited! This is information if you are in the area so that you may plan to attend. If you do, please plan to say "hi" - it really means a lot to meet the people from cyberworld, I guess it makes it all more "real."

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21 Jul 09

Idea Works Blog » We Celebrate Learning – Vicki Davis

Here are answers to some great questions from idea works that I shared with them in the past few weeks. For those of you who might have missed a few blog posts here -- you can get answers to questions like, "how do I handle it when people disagree with my uses of technology" and how I got started. Thank you idea works for giving me a chance to share over there.

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12 Apr 08

Blogger: Cool Cat Teacher Blog - Post a Comment

Annotations of the comments on this long blog post -- I'm going to pull it back into a post.

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For me, the conversation is hardly closed; it is simply a matter of having something to say, something to share.
The emotional commitment is another aspect of the conversation that is easily glossed over.
MIke Sansone
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- I've found (both with myself and those educators I've worked with in their blogging starts) that the edublogosphere is open and welcoming -- but as we engage in any cultural group (even offline), patience really is a key.
  
  Still, we sometimes measure our success by the interaction from those we look up to (esp. teachers - many of whom were probably the best students in their class, yes?)
- Sometimes we don't see the comments -- because the talk happens offline.
- Britt
- I get very few comments on my blog but see through the clustermaps that I have readers each and every day, so continue to feel that the blog is benefiting me through reflection and may even be benefiting others as well.
- atruger
- I NEVER get to share tools I discover because someone ALWAYS beats me to the punch...but I am ok with that.
- I truly connect with what you write even though I am one of "those" people who reads but rarely comments. YOU do make a difference and so do I!
- Bego said...
- the whole cocktail party analogy is just a grown up version of the kickball line-up in elementary school.
- In the blog world, change is effected by good content, and while good content isn't always noticed at first, it does eventually get a respectable position--sometimes because the cocktail group points them out.
- How could I think to be in the same boat as John Scalzi who started in 1998 if I've only been blogging since 2007?
- I found your blog, Vicki, because a project you do for Atomic Learning mentioned you, and your name is on the movies they use.
- jeanette tranberg
- Oh yes, I have felt the cocktail chill at times. I'm a norwegian edublogger, that have been following your brunks (blogdrunks) for a while. To start with - in
- 2005 - you were the only ones out there to follow
- Wes told me once I twittered, that nobody should twitter alone and I could not agree more - so I don't.
- So, from the outer side looking in: Anybody stopping by in Second Life tonight (which is today for you) for a virtual edu cocktail?
  I'm aka Kita Coage at Eduisland II, waiting to cocktail connect with you c",)
- Paul Hamilton
- For most of us, blogging is very much a personal venture.
- I suspect that we all have a deep desire to be heard and to be accepted. The longer I'm involved in the edublogosphere, however, the more impressed and encouraged I am by the level of acceptance that there is here.
  
  It is a good thing that we don't always agree with each other. Disagreement is often at the heart of constructive conversation
- At the same time, we are no different than the kids in our classrooms. We educators need to know that we will be accepted, no matter what we have to say and no matter how well we are able to express it. I think we help to make the edublogosphere a "safe place" for each other as we try to keep it positive and as we take advantage of the numerous opportunities to be affirming.
- Jim Dornberg said.
- I don't at all feel excluded from the blog "cocktail party", because just like a real cocktail party, I am drawn to the people who have something important, and engaging to say and I am content to listen and learn from them. I have seen a few of the "big names" at conferences, and even met a few of them in person. I have emailed several of them and others, or left an occasional comment, and I have been very pleasantly surprised at the thoughtful responses I have received.
- I read many blogs, but comment rarely, and I suspect that those who read my blog do the same. So I don't feel at all excluded. I'm just happy to occasionally be part of the conversation.
- Alfred Thompson
- When I was at EduBloggerCon last spring I felt quite the outsider. There were famous people there and I was unknown. I still feel that way in the broad edublogsphere. But honestly the broad sphere is not who I am blogging for. I blog for a niche - computer science teachers. The event for that niche is SIGCSE and there I (blush) feel a bit like a star. Few of the people there know the edubloggers with much larger readership or Technorati ranks. And really reaching the CS teachers is my goal not reaching everyone who teaches general subjects.
- There is, I believe, room for more at the top if only because the number of teachers reading blogs is still very small but we all hope it is growing. We are still at the ground floor. That makes edublogging different from tech blogging I think.
- Jason Bengs
- I think we need to all remember our focus for blogging. Mine is for reflection. I use my blog as a tool to improve my teaching. If others start to read and can learn from it, great. To my knowledge I am the only one seeing my blog right now. Which is fine with me. I don't think blogging should be a popularity contest and having a large number of readers is great, it must mean that you, and others, have something to offer that others want to emulate.
- prof v said
- I think you could have added three additional points. First, a suggestion on how to increase readership. I think new bloggers (myself included) are still trying to figure out how to make the connections that allow for conversations within blogs. I go back to your list of 10 tips for successful blogging, and still find things I never noticed before
- would love to see an updated list that perhaps would include how to make sure your blog is part of an RSS feed and how to set up subscriptions for potential readers to make it easy for them to subscribe to your blog.
- I think even you have realized that it is more difficult to break into the edublogger field as there is now so many new bloggers (just in the last two years).
- Finally, I am surprised that you did not point out how you have helped new bloggers by both asking for new voices and then publishing them in your own blog. I think this is an indication that you are trying to open up the "party".
- Dean Shareski
- Isn't the whole point of web 2.0 is that it exudes democracy and equality? Those that get all concerned about rankings and ratings are, as you've suggested missing the point.
- We often quickly want to find ways of ranking. Reminds me of the evils of current assessment practices. We tell kids to do their best and work on improving performance and yet continue to use ranking systems that is clearly a mixed message.
- Anonymous said.
- I'm new to this world as of Monday...yes, 4 days of immersing myself in as much ed. tech, web 2.0, online collaboration "stuff" that I can. (thanks to Lisa Thumman at Rutgers U.) Cocktail party or not, your blog and the comments people have left have increased my list of people to follow. Even a discussion about "being on the outside" has led me to the "inside". I'm thrilled to be in the company of such great minds and promise to start contributing once I wrap my brain around it all! Thanks to everyone for sharing! cmtvarok
- Mrs. V.
- thanks for coaxing me out of my blogger drought!
- Vicki A. Davis
- I believe that this "post" has been made stronger by the comments, which have added to the post greater depth of meaning.
- All over this conversation I see the change in society. We are all going through the emotions of becoming accustomed to something new... kind of like I first experienced when the Internet first came out.
- And while, when I began blogging, I didn't really set my sights or aim for a large readership... now that it is here, I will seriously consider and appreciate each individual reader and take my job seriously
- @tennessee -- Those in the trenches are my most important reads... I just wish there were more of us. It seems as if many teachers view blogging as a way out of the classroom when they should see it as a way to improve the classroom!
- @scottmcleod - I believe the comment intensity is highly correlated to controversiality AND immediacy. If a lot of people SAW someone recently, they want to interact and comment (immediacy.) If someone says something very emotional or controversial, people want to comment and interact (controversiality.) While I guess looking at these stats are fine, I've found in my very short time blogging that looking too much at numbers of any kind removes my focus from what is important. When I focus intently on conversation, my blog traffic and numbers just grow. I always say "whatever is watered, grows." If I water my investigation of stats, I become a good statistician... if I water my blog but also commenting and participating in the blogosphere as a WHOLE, I become a good blogger. I'd rather be the latter. And while the post was meant to be encouraging... I have to admit I'm a competitive perfectionist and always have to reign in that aspect of my nature.
- @christophersessums - I think the emotional nature of something is like the proverbial elephant in the Net -- it is there. It always stuns me the number of people who discuss their feelings on this when it comes up... it means that many of us are experiencing the same thing.

29 Mar 08

ABC News: Could MySpace Be Your Kid's Social Key?

This is an interesting article that presents some interesting commentary on students today. It is very brief but makes some excellent points.

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Larry Rosen, professor of psychology at California State University-Dominguez Hills, has long studied "the Net generation," the first to have grown up with the Internet, not to mention cellphones. In Me, MySpace and I: Parenting the Net Generation (Palgrave Macmillan), he helps parents understand social networks. His advice: Talk to your kids, learn the technology and don't panic. USA TODAY's Janet Kornblum spoke with the author.
They're very self-motivated.
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- This world encourages us to multitask. I think it encourages kids to be much less patient. More terse.
- This generation spends time at home — connected. Kids have to be social. It's all part of the preteen and teen years and young adult years
- Because they have a combination of people they know face-to-face in the real world and people they don't, (those of the Net generation) get a lot of chances to bounce ideas and to test out things on a social network that they probably wouldn't do face-to-face.

Site Community for coolcatteacher.blogspot.com,Cool Cat Teacher Blog

This is the "site community" for my blog -- I'm learning a lot about what people have marked and the annotations feature is really cool. If you blog or have a website, you should look at the automatically created site community -- also check it out for those sites you really enjoy reading -- you may turn up some of their great old posts that you've not read!

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Writing Assignment in Need of Revision, care to help? :) - Horizon Project 2008

I am extremely impressed with what is happening -- although we're here for technology, now students are talking about literature -- look at the conversation on this page - -it is amazing.

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The way the students are conversing about literature is stunning here. I am very impressed. - coolcatteacher on 2008-03-26

I'm writing 2 huge essays on the same book.

You learned about him a little different then i did tho.

If you're going to have beatles songs in italics you need to have i am the walrus

On another note.

This morning I came here before I went to twitter. This seems to be the place to be right now. Sti | Diigo Message System

This is a very honest, open discussion between educators about why diigo or delicious -- I think the fact we can have this conversation within diigo at all says a lot for the usefulness of the tool. Diigo is an emerging tool for social bookmarking and collective intelligence.

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Lisa Parisi

This morning I came here before I went to twitter. This seems to be the place to be right now. Still not sure of all the groupings, taggings, etc. Reading what everyone writes and hoping to get it soon
Will play on Sunday with Karen McMillan and Alice Barr. Anyone else want to join? Anyone want to teach?
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- Ryan Bretag
  
  I'll join in the fun if you'll have me. Let me know time when you know.
- I was going to present 20 minutes on Del.icio.us, but I may show Diigo instead - or both - or 20 minutes is not enough....
- This new version "appears" to have fixed that issue, plus I've been impressed with the new features.
- Caroline Obannon
  
  I'm second guessing teaching only del.icio.us myself, too.
- Liz Davis
  
  I'm wondering if Diigo is too much for the newbie. Delicious is so simple and obviously useful. I'm afraid Diigo would scare some people away. I'm still inclined to start with delicious and save Diigo for my more advanced users (of which I have very few).
- Maybe overwhelming would describe my feelings.
- However, I can defely think of quite a few people who would balk at it, too and favor the simplicity of Del.icio.us.
- but most likely wouldn't participate in the social/sharing aspects they offer.
- The nice thing about the Diigo toolbar is that you can select which buttons to see, so for those who might find the extra choices of tools overwhelming, it can at least be customized.
- I'm feeling a Diigo obsession building. As soon as Explorer comes up I check to see if there are any messages in Diigo. How nice of them to put that number right on my toolbar!
- I created my very first List last night,
- Kristin Hokanson
  
  Liz I think it may be too much ially for the newbie and I will continue to send to delicious.
- There is one feature that I REALLY like and that is that you can EMAIL something you are tagging so for folks who LIKE to get those sites emailed, you can still meet their needs without an extra step yourself
- I second that. I like Diigo, but del.icio.us simplicity is so inviting.
- The value of Diigo is that it brings a number of tools together allowing for multiple entry points. The old training model is show them a tool from start to finish that goes over every single detail. With Diigo, why show everything to those new to all this? It is rather easy to click into your bookmarks. From there, teachers have a space they can grow. It also provides a wonderful opportunity to differentiate with your teachers -- the whole multiple points of entry.
- still I will have fun, exploring it and making effective use of it.
- it is the ease of integration with blogging and twitter -- I annotated a page yesterday and pulled it directly into my blog. I can twitter bookmark that is important quickly -- AND I can use the tagging standards for the horizon project without having to remember the darn tags -- tag dictionaries are the most useful things to have been invented in a LONG time -- we need to set them up within one of our educational groups!
- I don' t think I would not teach delicious. But perhaps starting with delicious and saving Diigo for later is a good idea.
- I do find this site to be much more powerful and useful than delicious. I never really used delicious to its full potential. The fact that I am here just chatting with folks makes me want to stay and contribute to the collective knowledge.
- We are conversing about the usefulness of diigo and I thought you might like to be included.
- Maggie Tsai has invited Wade Ren to this conversation
- Are you guys planning a Sunday get-together? If so, please advise the time - I'd love to join you and help answering any question.
- Howdy! Wow, what can I say? Diigo is a lot more than delicious. If CoolCat Vicki hadn't written about Diigo again, I probably would have stuck with Delicious...and,if I hadn't been using Twitter, blogs, played around with Facebook, the social networking side of Diigo would have been just so much MORE to learn.
- my concern would be to NOT limit learners in workshop sessions to the path I followed in learning these tools. Simply, folks, here is a tool that will grow as you grow and learn more about living and contributing in an interconnected world. The ability to have conversations like this, to annotate web pages, to share relevant quotes and tweet as needed...makes me wonder at the need for blogs at all.
- A few folks are considering exploring Diigo on Sunday morning and having a conversation about it now...join in and learn with us!

24 Mar 08

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