eSchool News online – For some educators, tagging is ‘it’ explores how del.icio.us and other tagging systems can be used to manage resources for classes, workshops, and other educational settings.
Daily Work: Being Lazy II
The best thing about the Presidents of the United States is that they have a day and I get it off. Yes, I lazed about in bed today too.
Did some preliminary work on Inbox, searching for articles, and created another IRC tutorial: Forgotten Passwords.
In the News: Moleskine for Writers
Putting Pen to Paper Anew sings the praises of my cute little notebook :) I got a Moleskine Pocket Diary for Christmas, and I love it. It’s helped me keep track of the various projects, which really helps when I’m doing content reports and trying to catch up on entries that I haven’t written. Beyond all of that, I love the feel of my words on a page. There’s something about handwritten words that never compares to typed or printed words.
ReadWriteThink: Mapping Locations from a Novel
Can’t Remember Who Whacked Whom? Just Check the Map on the Web Site – New York Times—Potential lesson plan idea here. Obviously not about The Sopranos. Would be useful though to create a map of a community or whatever in a reading that students had done and have them plot out the places on the map where significant things happen in the story. Many books are around with maps for the events, from Winnie the Pooh’s Hundred Acre Woods to the fly leaf maps in The Lord of the Rings. After looking at those examples, students could create their own maps as a book report alternative or perhaps a literature circle project students could complete and then share with the class.
Daily Work: Being Lazy
Not an overly exciting day, but I did make a lovely Monte Cristo in the toaster oven and installed the new pink toilet seat (not at the same time). Surely that is enough for one day. Okay, I did more than that. I watched Poirot on TV and worked on IRC tutorials for logging in and partipating in the Math Summit:
In the News: Blogged Out of a Job
Blogged Out of a Job—another exploration of the horrors that people get into when they communicate online. “The poll [conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management] also found that 59 percent of employees believe employers should be allowed to discipline or terminate workers who post confidential or proprietary information concerning the employer, while 23 percent of employees would support a fellow worker who criticizes or jokes about employers, co-workers, supervisors, customers or clients.”
What intrigues me about this piece is that you’d think it’s the blogging that is the new problem that causes these downfalls into poor business behavior. How are any of the circumstances in the article different from missent e-mails that divulge too much information, leaking information to someone who ought not have it, or any of the dozens of other communication faux pas that are out there in the business world. It’s hardly the blog that’s to blame. It’s the failure to understand audience, purpose, and business behavior.