• What a picture-perfect morning in the Catskills. #

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• Students are doing final course eval. I am sitting outside the room on a rather creatively-patterned couch. #
• Still waiting. #
• Evals are done. Said goodbye. Nice, dedicated students. #
• Grading await. I have 72 hours, and plan to finish and submit by tomorrow night as I have kept up with grades for the whole class thus far. #
• Meeting a friend for a drink. Where is she? #
• What a long week. #
• Let the meeting torrents begin for today. #
• Has anybody out there done any work with Health Literacy standards? #
• Waiting in line at Mandoo Bar. Best Korean food in Little Korea. #
• Goon mandoo and beef fried rice. Yumm. #
• Triple grande skim latte. #
• The city seemed quiet today. Was there some holiday I did not know about? #
• The same thing seemed to happen to the blogosphere, too. #

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• Waiting for a calzone at Two Boots. Have not had one of these in a few years. Never know it to see me, however. #
• Just finished a 2 hour project review and work meeting. #
• Wow it is nice outside. #
• Wow it is nice outside. #
• @rlk300 Good point; thank you. #
• @mathplourde Jing Project is a great program. Free to try and use and keep! #
• My students just finished their final exam. They certainly deserve a break now. #
• While they were taking their exams, I reviewed a research paper and read a thesis proposal for possible supervision. #
• Talking this way one may think I have tenure! Nah, just an underpaid adjunct. #
• @colwar Please share what you learned when you learn about them in the workshop. Love that stuff. #
• @moritherapy I am letting mine grow. A colleague suggested I cut it today. I replied I am going after the Stooges look. #
• @bjschone What is that? #
• @abalone Lucky, lucky, lucky! #
• @betsyweber We still need to chat. DM me if you may have a free moment for tomorrow. #
• @maniactive What did you do? #
• Presented a PPT template for rapid elearning development today for feedback. Went well, but think I overwhelmed the team. #

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• @rlk300 So early? Just getting started! #
• @arjunsingh I think we have some FEMA trailors we can send up. It seems we no longer want to use them for our own people in need . . . #
• Better go finish the dishes. I have a project plan I need to tweak for an early morning meeting. #
• Almost to work. Early meetings today. #
• Just walked by somebody on the street wearing a blue face mask. A bit extreme. #
• The second of the five meetings today just ended. The first two were the major ones. #
• @injenuity Thank you. I just replied! #
• @maniactive Quite clever this early in the day. #
• @lynne_gabriel Welcome to Twitter. Keep an eye on that @skydaddy for us, ok? #
• @macboyx Good for you. To think, cut out the coffee and blogging and social media time? #
• @josien Where is this happening? It sounds interesting. #
• @nattynato Thank you for the feedback. Let’s hope others found the wiki experience useful. #
• @daveseah Break down those barriers, Dave! #
• @gminks Just as unnaturally high as the oil company profits. If there is such a shortage, why are they making more than ever? #
• Has anybody used NewsGator Go! for Mobile RSS reading? http://tinyurl.com/3bflgb #
• @injenuity and right back at you. #
• @injenuity Not sure which is more interesting — commenting back and forth there or here? #
• @maniactive It was more common among Japanese tourists after 9/11, but the president has not scared us by raising the terror level . . . #
• @skydaddy How does the line go, something like “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” #
• Meeting #3 down. 2 to go. #
• Oh right, I have a faculty meeting after work as well. Joy. #
• At a faculty meeting for one of the grad programs in which I teach. #
• There loss. I am already hot. #
• Their loss. I am already hot. #
• The faculty meeting ended up being quite good. Lots of good news and great ideas. #

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• @abalone Hope you will have an engaging experience. #
• @pinoyboy Sounds like food issues to me. A friend commented how often I Tweet about food. Uh oh . . . #
• @skydaddy BTW, interesting new avatar. It looks like a pic from Apocalypse Now. #
• @skydaddy Congrats on the Help Desk tickets. Can I send you a few? #
• @gminks Can’t be! But then again, Thriller was the first piece of music I ever bought. #
• @coyenator Do a SWOT analysis. #
• @chrismillet like Bugs? #
• @skydaddy Great. Will you use a public wiki for it? #
• Went to the dentist for a cleaning and exam. I need 2 small fillings due to gum recession. At least nothing major! #
• One more meeting for today. #
• What a long day. Off to class. #

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• Stayed one more night in the Catskills. Early morning drive today! #
• Funkin Donuts coffee for the long trip back. #
• Oops. Meant Dunkin! #
• Parked. Waiting for a subway. #
• Parked. Waiting for a subway. #
• @gminks Let me know when, and perhaps we can meetup for coffee or something. #
• Made it to the office early today. Could not imagine that long commute every day. #
• @gminks Manhattan, the Center of Civilization as We Know It. #
• @mathplourde As my doctor tells me every time I step on the scale. #
• @dougsymington I like TwitterBerry for adding Tweets, but have not found any easy way to read them. There are not many available that way. #
• @gminks You are coming to Manhattan in August? #
• I have been so busy working on an Instructional Design Document that I have not had lunch or coffee since I got into the office. #
• Finally got coffee and a sandwich. #
• What a quick day. Most productive work day in some time. #
• Finally leaving the office. Have been up since 4 am. #

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I am using a wiki to work with my students to create their final exam later this week. I do not think many of them have done this before, so this is a learning experience for all of us.

One thing I have noticed; while I am trying to encourage democratic education, they have been so infused with top-down instruction that they seem to be having trouble letting loose with this as an opportunity to shape their own final.

I think this will be an interesting experience to debrief with them.
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Jeffrey Keefer
Website: www.jeffreykeefer.com
Blog: www.silenceandvoice.com

• Finished coffee and reading some magazines. #
• Going to plant some flowers and mow the lawn. #
• BTW, while I am in upstate NY this weekend, I saw NYC got hit with similar storms that we had yesterday. #
• Hope all this rain will help us not have a drought this summer. #

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• Bought Miracles of Compostela by Anonymous 4. Never knew they recorded one of them. #
• No Web access until Sunday night. At least my BlackBerry gets email. #
• The weather just warned of a thunder storm moving 35 mph with quarter-size hail. “Move indoors immediately” they said. #
• Seems the thunder storms are done for the time being. #
• Seems the thunder storms are done for the time being. #

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