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Posted by: Jan Duffy in Arts, History, Uncategorized, blogging, gifted, productivity, professionaldevelopment, resources, tags: American University, Arts, choreography, creativity, dance, Lateral Action, Merce Cunningham, Merlin Mann, Performing Arts, Twyla Tharp
43 Folders, a blog about creativity and productivity, has a great video where the choreographer Twyla Tharp discusses intrinsic motivation-and how that keeps her going as a creative artist, regardless of whether or not her work is a “success” or not.
Twyla’s book, The Creative Habit- Learn It and Use It the Rest of Your Life, is one I need to haul off the bookshelf and read again. I’m sure the chapter on motivation will come in handy while I try to fire myself up to keep writing this blog. (Yoo-Hooo! anybody out there?)
I auditioned in front of Twyla Tharp and her company, and Merce Cunningham’s company at American University’s Wolffrap School of Performing Arts, one summer semester in the 70’s-and I can tell you this: She’s no quitter! And as a teacher, she wouldn’t let you be one either, if she could tell you had any spunk about you at all.
That’s about all I brought to that audition-spunk-(that and a 24 year old body “made for dance” that just wouldn’t quit). But that’s a long and funny story for another day; the short version is-I survived the audition, learned Tharp’s “100’s” and went on to discover a healthy respect mathematical minds like hers. Thanks to Twyla’s influence, and Merce’s (via Catherine Kerr), I became a “thinking dancer”-and there’s just no going back now!
“Intrinsic Motivation”-that’s probably what I should have named this blog!
PS: Check these great links out-
Lateral Action loves Twyla too. Add that blog to your Feedreader!
43 Folders is Merlin Mann’s blog about being productive in order to have time to be creative…or something like that! His language is a little crass at times, but he’s “real”. And he’s got a point-we all do need to learn to manage our time online–don’t procrastinate by reading blogs too much while you’re at “work”–unless you’re reading MINE and commenting too!
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Posted by: Jan Duffy in Arts, Uncategorized, blogging, productivity, resources, tags: Arts, Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, blogging, Consultants, Extra time, Home, Home improvement, Magazine, Medicine, Newspaper, Personal Organization, productivity, Recreation, resources, sharing, United States, Wall Street Journal
Sure wish I did! Got sidetracked online after school today-where does the time go? I didn’t have Bus Duty for a change-which meant extra time to check a few things. But I forgot to take my ADHD medicine at Lunchtime, and so I checked a few more things than I really should have-all while trying to figure out how to put photos on my wiki…how do I get so far off-track for so long??
I meant to save time to find a link for “clutterers who are actually hoarding-not collecting-there’s a big difference. hoarding is hanging onto stack and stacks of useless things like old newspapers, magazines, ole clothes and even broken appliances and forgotten old household objects because they “might come in handy one day”. (Uh, oh-I think that might apply to me-I have such a hard time getting rid of old dance costumes and dance magazines too-even when we have plenty of dress-ups over at school-and plenty of articles and pictures for my bulletin board. My husband has a problem getting rid of stuff too and so did his family-and so do our kids)!
I read an article in the Wall Street Journal recently that said that hoarding is more common than people think, runs in families, and requires continual intervention-people to help the hoarders part with things on a regular basis-but it can’t be done in a negative way-that doesn’t help at all. I have to admit, we all tend to lose our patience with each other’s “stacks” at my house! Sometimes I think a clear counter or table top emits a high-pitched siren call to my family members-calling them out to put their things all over the clear surface. It’s so frustrating “digging out” all the time!
I did come across some excellent web links that hopefully will help one of you Faithful Readers, or Similarly Distracted/ Disorganized Persons, since I’ve now run out of time to do anything but finish this blogpost- and finally get out of here and Home from School (where I should have been all afternoon-cleaning and organizing)!
If one of the following links is really useful to you, how about commenting to let me know? Thanks!
The Home Know It All Great organizing and home improvement idea blog.
LOTS of Links for Clutter Queens and Kings Click to see a list of stacks and stacks.com’s most popular blog posts on the topic of organizing and de-cluttering, etc.
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Posted by: Jan Duffy in Education, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, blogging, gifted, k-3danceeducation, professionaldevelopment, resources, web2.0, webtools, tags: Blog, Blogger, blogging, books, dance, Education, gifted, giftededucation, k-3danceeducation, New York Times, Newberry Project, professionaldevelopment, resources, sharing, Stanford University, Teacher, Tutorials, Web 2.0, web2.0, webtools
Here’s a list of some of my favorite education blogs (including dance education!) that are worth reading, sharing, discussing and commenting on; I’m hoping to hear from you!
Which blogs do you subscribe to? What’s the most useful tip you’ve picked up from reading a blog?
If you’re a parent of a school-aged child, do you see a blog listed here that you might recommend to one of your child’s teachers-and if so, which one?
*Hint-at least check out the first blog listed below-you don’t have to be a parent, teacher, or a blogger to appreciate The Newberry Project-just a lover of great books!
The Newberry Project
Sherill Maddox’s Tech Blog
Tammy Stanford’s (MFA) Ballet Blog
Will Richardson’s Blog
Vickie Davis-CoolCatTeacher
Recorded Books K-12 Blog
The Book Whisperer
Liz Kolb’s Using Cellphones for Learning
NY Times Dance Blog
Hoagie’s Gifted
Loonyhiker’s Successful Teaching Blogspot
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Posted by: Jan Duffy in Uncategorized, Web 2.0, blogging, resources, web2.0, webtools, tags: Atlanta, blogging, Edublogs, Edublogs Supporter, Health, Kids and Teens, resources, sharing, United States, Web 2.0, web2.0, webtools
I’m an Edublogs Supporter now and would like to bring more traffic to my blog but I’m not getting much help from Edublogs in that department, I’m afraid. What’s wrong with letting me put a badge like this on my sidebar?
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Posted by: Jan Duffy in Education, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, blogging, business, gifted, k-3danceeducation, professionaldevelopment, resources, web2.0, webtools, tags: blogging, business, Dance, delicious, Education, Facebook, fundraising, gifted, giftededucation, googlereader, k-3danceeducation, professionaldevelopment, resources, rss, sharing, Social network service, social-bookmarking, Tutorials, Twitter, Web 2.0, web2.0, webtools
What ways have you found expeditious to share links to what you’re reading and bookmarking these days? I sure would like to hear from you!
Today I tried to create a link that I hoped would allow others to connect directly with my Google Reader “Starred List” of interesting articles on parenting, teaching and education issues, learning differences, all kinds of dance information, and articles that address technology issues, along with helpful tech tips and tutorials. It worked but people could access more than I bargained for so I just deleted the link-sorry!
As you may discover if you read many of my blogposts, this isn’t a one-sded blog by any means-I’m interested in too many things to write just about one, though I seem to be most attracted to discussing and adding to people’s knowledge base on the topics of: education (including gifted education, learning differences, and dance education-of course-since I’m a dance teacher), good tech topics for non-techies to know about, cool web 2.0. tools for kids, teacher, and parents–among others topics of interest.
My thinking was if you’re interested in any of these topics, or you like the way I think and write, if you’re taking Shelley Paul’s k12learning2.0 course or another web 2.0 course, or just want to learn more about web 2.0 without having to take a class, and you’re as pressed for time as I seem to be all week at school or work, then you might enjoy clicking on my list of starred articles just to see what kinds of things are possible to read about thanks to the wonders of RSS, or if you already know about Readers, to find some accessibly written, interesting, short reading for carpool or bank lines, and/or learn about some “how-tos” for processesyou haven’t heard about or haven’t had time to look for a tutorials on. But I guess that idea just bombed!!!
Browsing through my Google Reader is fast becoming one of my very favorite ways to spend a rainy, cold Sunday afternoon. I’m the Queen of Week-end Procrastinators, but I promise it’s not really a time-waster; I really learn a lot of useful things this way, and often find articles and links to share here, and to email to friends. I think that’s why I was hoping to share here on this blog too. I’m sure there are other ways to do that-this idea of mine was supposed to save me some time hough-back to the drawing board,
Google Reading is relaxing for a workaholic like me-what do you think? I like it because I can read about the latest things that will help me as a parent, blogger, teacher, etc. without actually having to get up off the couch to go do any of it-unless I want to!! So far it’s just something I indulge in on my own time at home-it hasn’t become a form of procrastination that I use at work, nor do I expect I’ll ever have time for it to become one either (my boss will surely be glad to know)! Like most teachers, I’m afraid I can all too easily address my addiction to reading, and get my daily technology “fix” at the same time, just trying to keep up with school email! But if youhave a job where you sit at a desk and stare at a computer all day, I don’t have to tell you-you probably have your own reader that you’re wasting time with already. You can’t add my “starred list” but you can access jan_o’s Delicious Bookmarks! Many of the articles I find in my Reader end up in My delicious!
jan_o’s Delicious Bookmarks have finally been put into tag bundles-more or less. Tons of great links here-in my humble opinion-lol! IF you find something useful-please let me know! Some of my more recent bookmarks are how-tos for Twitter and Facebook, i.e. how to share your links on those two social networking platforms.
Personally, I’m trying to figure out how much I want to get involoved with Facebook (as a person who is already starved for time to update one blog and one wiki on a regular basis) so you probably can’t find me on Facebook very easily, if at all, and I’ve only just started to think seriously about Twitter, as I have said before, it might be interesting to sign up just so I could learn to be pithy! But thanks to my Google Reader and my Firefox app Zemanta (that automatically suggests related articles whenever I type an email or blogpost), I see it’s becoming possible to put tweets on my blog and my blogposts on Facebook etc. -so I may subcumb after all! At least one of thosearticles is listed at the end of this blogpost, so check it out if you’re similarly curious.
You may notice some of my recent bookmarks on Delicious from Digitizor-I was disappointed to discover that when you click on those they just take you to a place where you have to add Digitizor to your reader to be able to see the article, but at least you can tell by the titles of the articles whether or not you want to add Digitizor to your Reader. I think they’re definitely worth it-but you you’re like me and don’t “speak geek”, be aware that you’ll probably have to scroll through their extensive lists of articles to find the ones you can actually understand and use.
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Posted by: Jan Duffy in Education, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, blogging, gifted, web2.0, tags: blogging, CBS News, Child, Couch potato, Education, Elementary school, Family, gifted, giftededucation, Happy hour, Laura Stockman, Mother, Television, Web 2.0, web2.0, Weblogs
Virtual Exercising -is catching on among the kiddie couch potatoes. This is a CBS news clip about that phenomenon that I first saw on Laura Stockman’s blog, “Twenty-Five Days to Make a Difference”. It looks like technology is making yet another inroad into changing our lives for the better.
It’s been a sad fact of modern life that it’s just not possible for all children to go outside to play anymore-much less spend hours skating, biking, climbing trees, “exploring”, playing “Hide and Seek” and “Chase” allover the neighborhood-blocks away from their own homes the way my elementary school friends and I spent so many happy hours. Practically the only time we came inside was when someone’s mother insisted we all go home for lunch or dinner; it never even occurred to us that anyone would choose to spend the whole day in front of the television.
If you haven’t seen this truly inspirational blog, check it out; this is my first good deed for today, in honor of Laura, who decided to memorialize her grandfather by performing a good deed a day for a month, and writing a blog about it. Her blog that has been seen by incredible numbers of people all over the world.
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Posted by: Jan Duffy in Education, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, blogging, business, productivity, professionaldevelopment, web2.0, webtools, tags: blogging, Blogging Tips, business, Education, Five Minds for the Future, Neuroscience, productivity, professionaldevelopment, Seth Sternberg, TechCrunch, The Forum, Web 2.0, web2.0, Weblogs, webtools
Links to “What Works” for Dance Teachers and Others-links that help Bloggers, Small Business Developers, Dance Educators, Science Teachers, and Parents and Teachers of Gifted Students:
Best Blogging Tips from a real expert!
Explaining Neuroscience Graduate student Alexis Webb partners with fellow neuroscience students to create a program that aids neuroscientists in communicating with the public.
Wiggio: the best (free) way to work in groups. This looks like a super tool for easy and efficient collaboration. If you try it, let me know what you think!
Gifted?: Professional Development Online- Individual assessment of children and adolescents (webinar)
Five Minds for the Future: easy professional development -this is one of many interesting and timely online lectures from The Forum.
From Nothing to Something-Seth Sternberg’s article helpful to people starting their own businesses in techcrunch.com
Dance Lesson Plans- for those days when you need a new idea!
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Here’s a terrific blog I just discovered for all of you out there who live with or teach a “tween”; it’s called, “It’s My Life”.
Categories of Information on this Blog include: Book Reviews, Bullying, Celebrities, Concerts. Cool Stuff, Creative Writing, DVD Reviews, Dealing with Death, Families,Green Living, movie Reviews, Pets and Animals, and (last but not least) The Arts! A “You Said It” section encourages comments, and a team of advisors answers kids’ questions.
The information on Online Bullying is particularly timely with Internet Safety Week coming up. I know my son’s school will discuss this issue thoroughly, which I’ve also tried to do at home, but the IML Blog provides him with another way to review internet safety material, and to ask questions of someone who won’t recognize him as my son-which may matter to him since I am a faculty member at his school.
I was surprised to read how students who have been picked on at a school are often the very ones who end up bullying others online. (Now that’s a scary thought)! I highly recommend that parents and teachers check out this blog!
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Posted by: Jan Duffy in Arts, Education, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, Wiki, blogging, k-3danceeducation, professionaldevelopment, web2.0, webtools, tags: Arts, blogging, Dance, DancerKids, Education, Facebook, k-3danceeducation, Mobile phone, MySpace, professionaldevelopment, social-bookmarking, Web 2.0, web2.0, webtools, Wiki, YouTube, Zemanta
Well I finished the Web 2.0 course I’ve been taking but I’m not done with this blog-I want to keep it going, though I do wish I had given it a “catchier” name!
I never ever thought I would become so attached to blogging and I was sure that no one would read my posts, especially anyone in performing arts, but thanks to the Clustrmap I can tell this blog has been seen by some far-flung people, and that’s been exciting even though I haven’t gotten as many comments as I hoped for. Mark Twain said, “I can live for 3 months on a good compliment” and he’s right-I just have to be patient and remember to look at the ClustrMap where the dots are starting to multiply and grow bigger-someone besides me is really reading this blog! Cool!
I guess that only a very small percentage of elementary school dance teachers are into technology for 2 way communication and collaboration, I guess, except for email, Facebook and Myspace. I really wanted my students to communicate via the web with one of my former mentors, the choreographer Merce Cunningham, who I have often written about on this blog. Merce at 90 was still choreographing using special software he helped invent, and I know he would have loved to see my kids doing their versions of Chance dances. But he died in late July before I got back to school to set anything up with my students. So it’s back to the drawing board but I’m sure we’ll think of a project soon-all the kids are very interested in doing something “web 2.0-ish” with dance.
As far as this blog goes, I may have to broaden my topics to connect with more people-but I know there are other teachers out there who do relate to what I’ve said here-they’ve told me so…and some are people I would never have met if not for this blog, who have exchanged information and ideas with me, so maybe our students can collaborate long distance, even though no one I have met yet on the web is a dance teacher or choreographer like I am.
I don’t get a lot of comments from “regular people” or teachers as much as I hear from “places”-they’re either reading my blog and emailing me or linking to some of my posts, or contact me after I comment, or ping me–it’s been funny to notice my own child-like excitement to other blogs and “places” mentioning my posts-when Digitizor first mentioned one of my posts I said, “Whoa! This thing is real!” I got so excited I called up everyone in my family to tell them, and then really felt like a computer wiz since no one knew what I was talking about. No wonder the kids at school get so excited when anyone comments on their classroom blogs! But I’d rather one person noticed than a whole lot of computers that are programmed to look for keywords and tags.
Zemanta’s been linking to my posts quite a bit lately, so that’s been kind of funny too-it’s probably only because aren’t too many other dance teachers and choreographers out there blogging who use Zemanta as much as I do, but it’s such a fast and easy way to find pictures and links to related articles-and a lot of them are good ones too!
Twitter keeps trying to get me to blog with them too, even though I haven’t ever been to their site-I guess they’ve been to mine! I ought to try Twitter just to learn how to write in 140 words or less-as you can tell if you’ve read this far, that would be extremely challenging for me!
I’ve started commenting sometimes when I read my “feeds” and that’s been interesting too-some people write back and keep up the exchange, so if you’re a newbie-blogger or web “Reader” like I am-Comment-you might be surprised at the reactions you get! I can’t even remember the name of one place I ended up, some educational newsletter linked to some teaching website I visited as a task in the k12learning2.0 course-where I responded to a survey asking if people used cell phones in education-and if so, to comment and tell them how they were using them. After I reported how I texted choreography to some of my teenage pointe students-and how much the students liked that ,and actually worked on what I sent them, the survey author asked to quote me in another article she was doing about the results of that poll-so that was a surprising, positive development, but uh-oh–here’s where I showed my “newbie-ness” -I got to that site through some random path of links that I kept clicking on, and have no idea where I was! Since school started, I’ve gotten so many emails that I can’t seem to find that one now- so I can’t go back and read her article (!!!)…
But that experience did get me thinking-maybe my students and I should do a poll this year -perhaps, “How Many Dance Teachers and/or Dance Classes Blog?” that would be a great way to attract comments and find out what other dance people are doing and thinking!
 2nd Graders Make a Dance Comic Book about Dress Rehearsal! I know we’re going to make a couple more pages for our Dance Comic Book this year-that project was a HUGE success thanks to the cooperation of two very creative, constructivist 2nd grade teachers and especially helpful IT staff at my school.
Two girls and I wrote everything that needed to be said, and the girls in one second grade class dressed up, acted everything out, took pictures to go with all the instructions, and all the members of that class helped even cut out and staple the books together!
Every single dancer got a small color copy well in advance to read every night before bed at home, and we read my big copy in each dance class, so on Dress Rehearsal Day, no time was wasted answering questions-everyone knew what to do- and every dancer felt “large and in charge” of themselves and their costumes.
Dress Rehearsal is a huge event here every year. Last year 140 girl dancers and 21 boy dancers in Grades 1-3 had to get dressed in their costumes at school between 8:30 and 9:oo am in 8 differnt locations in the school that we turned into temporary Dressing Rooms for the occasion, then they got on buses to go to our theater where 12 different dances were performed in one hour for the rest of the Primary School students and teachers, got back on the buses, changed back into uniforms, packed their own costumes and dance shoes into handle tie trash bags, tied them tightly to their book bag handles for transport home that afternoon-and got to Lunch—all by 11:30. It’s a major undertaking, but the Dance Dress Rehearsal Comic Book saved the day; the para-pros who supervised the kids getting dressed said they stood back and watched in amazement as even the 1st graders knew what to do and where to go! With 141 girls and 31 boys dancing in Grades 1, 2 and 3 at my school this year, you can bet this is one web 2.0 project I want to do again.
Another thing I can do is more “flip videos” to help my students. Only a few of the dance teachers I know video rehearsals and email them to their dancers for personal review, though it’s easy to see on You Tube that everyone is posting dance. Here at school I know some teachers post choreography they want rehearsed on Edline, and I plan to post things to practice too this year-probably on my wiki.
I emailed a video of a student’s part to her when she was in the hospital and when that little 2nd grader returned to rehearsals after 3 weeks away, she knew her special recital part better than the dancers who were never absent-so that’s definitely a good use of web 2.0 tools that I plan to do more of in the near future!
Have I developed a sort of Personal Learning Network from this blog? I didn’t think so at first, just because I wasn’t getting very many comments, but I’ve realized from communicating with a few colleagues in other states that almost everyone that teaches-and anyone who has anything to do with performing arts- is almost always incredibly busy during the school year, especially –we might as well live each in our own little worlds. And not everyone takes the time to comment if they don’t have a question, perhaps because they don’t expect to get a reply, much less start a long distance networking relationship from a comment-but it was only halfway through the summer that I began to understand that’s what web 2.0 and blogs are really all about-someone had to write me back and forth for me to figure that out –just reading about it happening to other people just didn’t convince me, I guess!
Educational social networks are more than just me and you emailing or trading comments with each other though, so maybe I do have a network of sorts going now that I’m reading blogs and going to different links based on the recommendations of people I have learned to “know” through their blogs! I’m commenting in several places on the web, based on the encouragement of bloggers who I have never met in person, so that’s a PLN, I think.
Has k12learning2.0 had any other positive effects on me that I think will last-and/or taught me at least 3 things I’ll use all year with my students? YES! I’ve already talked about some of them but every time I go back and read this I think of more!
For myself, I now “read my feeds” everyday using Google Reader on my iphone, and Walt Mossberg’s “All Things Digital” and the “Walt Street Journal” apps on my iphone almost every day too-and expect to continue that.
I’ve learned a lot by reading the coolcatteacher blog- I always click on lots of Vickie Davis’ links that she posts there and PBS Teachers is another resource I use all the time now too. (Where do I find the time??? I hate to say it, but I gave up reading the 2 “real” newspapers that land on my driveway every day, but feel somewhat less guilty for not cancelling my subscriptions because now my husband is finally reading them).
My school wiki is here to stay-the parents and the kids love it and I plan to figure out a way to make it more interactive this year-though I hope I can do that without me having to read more emails every day- that would be Great!
And I’m keeping this blog going too! The time I spent on this blog and the whole k12learning2.0 course was definitely worth it-even if I did have to take it twice to be able to “get it”! Perhaps this sounds like a cliche’ but where web 2.0 is concerned, I say, “Our kids are the future, and we teachers really do light the way”! (And those that don’t feel like that are going to be left in the dust-sorry, but that’s the truth!)
If nothing else, maybe one day, my own children will look back at these blogposts and understand at last why their “technology-obsessed” Mom was up so late at night, and stayed so long after school.
Thanks to all the things I learned and bookmarked this past summer during the k12learning2.0 course, I think I can create my own professional development for years to come!
Through struggling with some web2.0 tasks, I have definitely learned I need more time than most people, and will choose my courses carefully and also make sure I have checklists like the End of Course rubric I had to sign today for the k12learning2.0 course, at the Beginning of the Course-not just at the end, so I can make sure I stay on track. Or else I may have to sign up for a professional development course that is offered through a learning disabilities organization of some kind; no one at my school doubts I qualify now, and goodness knows, my k12 learning2.0 coach and others in the IT Dept here at my school can certainly verify that I need “accommodations” too!
Other “Things” I learned about that I will try to use this year myself or with my students are some of the Cool Tools in this k12 learning2.0 course-making the Slide Show was fun and there are a lot of things that I have Simply Boxed that I will use for a long time to come for school and personal projects. Google Docs just might save my life AGAIN the next time my school computer acts up and/or is accidently wiped clean! And I love Delicious bookmarks! My Delicious bookmarks are
I also hope to find time to make a wiki this year for the nonprofit dance organization that I founded, DancerKids, Inc. I can’t tell you how helpful it would have been to have a wiki when the main computer server went down with a virus over at the church where the DancerKids program is in residence!
In addition to showing You Tube clips of great dances to my students, I hope to post some of the kids’ dances online too where they can be viewed with a password, and I think just between all of my different 3rd grade classes, I’m almost ready to get a choreography collaboration going as an “online movement experiment”, where one class makes up a few moves, another class looks that video up on the web and learns the steps, and comes back to class to show me-then I help them add their moves onto the first class’ moves and film them and post to You Tube, etc etc back and forth. That could be really cool!
Flickr and Creative Commons and Gcast-are also very cool things I want to use with my students. I’m even glad, I guess, that I learned the hard way that it’s possible to take off your own podcast from Gcast if you accidently violate a copyright law, but the fact that I might have done that by accident just goes to show how easy it is to do. Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows that copyright protection is something I strongly believe in-(though lawyers will tell you that copyright law is very poorly written for Dance).
Thing 22 was about Nings and should have had it’s own blogpost but I almost forgot it skipping around to finish all my web 2.0 tasks the way I had to do here at the end, so I’m squeezing it in here. NINGs I don’t think are for me…not yet. I joined Classroom 2.0, and The Strengths Ning that the Gallup organization has going now, but really haven’t had any time to play with those much after setting them up! When school started in August, I thought I would never be able to do anything extra ever again, but lately I’ve at least had time to be thinking about how to make more time to blog, and have found a way to read my feeds even when I’m really busy… now if I could figure out how to get time to update my wiki more often etc…it is getting a little easier after a month in school-but I have to be careful. I got so excited about having time to go back to update and add to my blog that I totally forgot about some school paperwork I was supposed to be working on (so that’s where the “free” time came from–oops)!
As far as this web 2.0 course is concerned, I must say I won’t miss trying to finish everything by the deadlines, but I will really miss having a bunch of assignments pre-selected by someone who knows what she’s doing, just sitting there on the web waiting for me anytime I am ready to go do learn new-and sometimes I really needed my coach’s help to know how to do some of the technical stuff-but I also know a lot more places to look for that kind of information now too. And I am much more confident than I ever was before!
I know that even if things I try don’t work out for me as easily as they do for most other people, it isn’t the end of the world, for one thing. If I keep trying, I eventually figure stuff out, and if not-there are loads of people to help me-in and out of school (my PNL!)
I don’t think I’ll stop this blog-it’s a good way to think out loud and remember what’s important and communicate that to whomever is listening. I’m glad for the contacts that do come my way, but if you’re too busy to comment, don’t feel bad-I know exactly how that is!
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Posted by: Jan Duffy in Uncategorized, Web 2.0, blogging, professionaldevelopment, web2.0, webtools, tags: Audacity, blogging, Copyright, MP3, music, On the Web, Podcast, professionaldevelopment, United States copyright law, Web 2.0, web2.0, webtools, World Wide Web
Podcasting is something I didn’t think I would get the hang of, but I have to do it to complete this Web 2.0 course. I finally was able to borrow a headset and microphone today, and in less than 40 minutes, using Audacity, I found it very easy to read and comment on what I read in a chapter called “Contemporary Dance“, that I found in an Usbourne Guide for Kids-and save it to a mp3, and load it where my course teacher could hear it- voila’-I thought I was home-free. Of course, after I made that podcast, I realized I probably broke a copyright law by reading from a book-that’s what I get for being in a hurry! So you won’t find the podcast here-I don’t dare publish it until I know it is ok! \”Jan Duffy\’s Replacement Podcast\”
Here’s hoping I finish making a podcast that “counts” by midnight tonight! I was in such a hurry, after bus duty, I have to go back and re-read all the directions to see! if you take the k12learning2.0 (web2.0 course)-be sure to print out all the instructions, make checklists of the tasks and check them all off-you do not want to miss seeing some of the tasks, and have to take this course over again like I have had to do!
Better yet-ask to have a copy of the End of Course Rubric too-at the start of the course, if you tend to be easily distracted whenever you go online, (like me)-it might help you stay focused!
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