Gr8tweets in March

Mar 032009
 

I’ve decided to participate in the latest suggestion by Sue Waters over at The Edublogger. And I invite you to join us for for Gr8tweets for the month of March in order to:

  • Commit to trying out Twitter for a month
  • Find interesting people to follow on Twitter
  • Share what you value about Twitter
  • See what others value about Twitter
  • Help build your Personal Learning Network

Here’s how it works: For the month of March, a group of educators and lifelong learners will be picking a “Tweet of the day” and Re-Tweeting it with a tag: #gr8t

For more details, please visit Sue’s post, where she explains it in more detail (including a bit on how to use hashtags). You can also visit the Wikispace which has more details, as well as a list of participants.

For me, a “gr8 tweet” will be a tweet that does one or more of the following:

  • causes me to think differently
  • inspires me to action or change
  • challenges me to justify the philosophy behind my actions
  • makes me laugh in ways I hadn’t before
  • gives me sincere hope for the future, the community, or the planet

There aren’t many rules, really, and if you have questions, jump on over to Sue’s post. Oh, and if you’re not on Twitter yet and you’re looking for someone to follow, feel free to find and follow me. You can then send me a tweet or two and find some other people to follow to expand your network. My username is @amichetti.

Happy Tweeting! 🙂

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 3 March, 2009  Posted by at 8:40 pm Cool Tools, Professional Development Tagged with: , , ,  1 Response »

Wordle-ing Behind

Dec 182008
 

I saw Lee Kolbert‘s Worldle Meme about 3 weeks ago, but am only NOW getting to it (and purely because I am procrastinating / avoiding work, I might add, as I have approximately 55 pieces of work staring me in the face to be assessed).  Her meme asked readers to:

  1. Create a Wordle from your blog’s RSS feed.
  2. Blog it and describe your reaction.  Any surprises?
  3. Tag others to do the same.
  4. Be sure to link back here and to where you were first tagged.

So, here is mine:

community, think, students: all good!

My reaction:  I like, I like!  I am not surprised to see “students” so BIG, as well as “think” and “community” – in fact I like this a lot.  I’m rather surprised, though, that “MYP” is so small.  However, this confirms what I was thinking recently when I felt that I should be blogging more about MYP, as so few people are (I recently discovered that many people discover my blog via Google searches with the terms “MYP asssessment” or “MYP reflection”).  So, this Wordle, with “MYP” being so small, is a good kick-in-the-pants for me to share more about my experiences and thoughts on this IBO programme.

Ok, the tags:

Happy Wordle-ing! 🙂

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 18 December, 2008  Posted by at 10:31 am Cool Tools, Writing Tagged with: , , , ,  2 Responses »

Another Cool Tool – The U.N. and Google Earth

Apr 092008
 

Courtesy of my school director, this article landed in my Inbox today.   The United Nations and Google are teaming up so that Google Earth users can now see where refugees are all over the world.  It’s there as a layer in the regular Google Earth service, showing the operations of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

What a great learning tool — for community service, for Humanities / Social Studies classes, for learning in general.

My favorite quote:

Johnstone [UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner] stressed that the agency had to change how it works to keep pace with technological developments as well as the increasing complexity of refugee issues, with economic migration and displacement due to climate change adding to traditional patterns of refugees forced from their homes by conflict.

(MYP teachers, see how many references to Areas of Interaction you can find in that one statement!  🙂 )

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 9 April, 2008  Posted by at 2:21 pm Cool Tools Tagged with: , , , , , ,  No Responses »
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