Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-09-03

  • Had my physical today; I even lost a little weight. Hurray! #
  • @ErnieAtLYD I thought everybody in San Fran loved the GOP! #
  • @maniactive What, are you running for VP, too? #
  • @dmcordell That is a wonderful start. #
  • @ChrisRicca Do I sense that you do not like the drill-more-oil-here Evangelical? #
  • @suewolff Thank you for the links, Sue. Great blog posts I need to process and comment upon. #
  • @bjschone Good luck! #
  • @ChrisRicca Glad to see you have such a razor-sharp understanding of this. I kinda like her hairdo; reminds me of a drag queen. #
  • Interesting NPR comparison between Sarah Palin and Dan Quayle http://tinyurl.com/5mnupl #
  • Finished syllabus for my online Principles and Practices of Online Course Creation and Instructional Design class http://tinyurl.com/6gsx93 #
  • Will blog about this process and link to it later today for feedback. Hope to model this process for my students. #
  • @maniactive Quite clever! #
  • @pinoyboy I did not remember him at all (except the potatoe, that is!) until I saw the article. #
  • @gsiemens George, will you post from this account as well? #
  • @gminks Sounds like my day . . . #
  • @gsiemens I like the idea of using the @cck08 account for any communications about the class. Helps to focus communication on the tag, too #
  • @BlancheMaynard Are they internal wikis, or can you share the links? What and where are you presenting? #
  • @betsyweber Nothing like the BBC to show us there is more to the world than US politics. #
  • @Currie A good jury duty or a difficult one? #
  • Listening to Gale Parchoma present online: Adoption of Technology Enhanced Learning in Higher Education. http://tinyurl.com/5ap8we #
  • @gminks What are the assignments? #
  • Running errands. Excited a new bank is opening closer. #

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Email vs. Blog Postings for FOC08

FOC08 Google Group

Seems some people (myself includes) have been using the Facilitating Online Communities email list from the Google Group for our class more than blog posting and threaded commenting.

I will quote my reply about this from earlier today:

One of the reasons I think this may be happening is because emails are immediate. I am able to reply to your email question while sitting in a train waiting for it to leave via my BlackBerry. Though underground, this response will get sent as soon as I go above ground again.

I cannot blog from here, and as I want to reply immediately, this seems the best option.

That GoogleGroups archives and makes all this searchable only seems to increase its use.

So, now I am blogging about my email response. Perhaps they can be used concurrently?

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CIDER and FOC08 Live Online Sessions Today

There are two wonderful professional development opportunities today that I am hoping to attend:

  1. Gale Parchoma of Lancaster University will be speaking live online via CIDER (Canadian Institute of Distance Education Research) at 11:00 MDT (time conversion here). Her topic is “Adoption of Technology Enhanced Learning in Higher Education.”
  2. Leigh Blackall will have the first of two conference calls for his Facilitating Online Communities sessions this evening at UTC 9:00 PM (time conversion here).

Both of these promise to be wonderful free learning events for those of us who work with online learning, communities of practice, and educational technology.