Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011 Not so irrelevant 019 Scott McLeod Copy a link to the article entitled http://Not%20so%20irrelevant%20019 Share Not so irrelevant 019 on Facebook Share Not so irrelevant 019 on Twitter (X) Share Not so irrelevant 019 on LinkedIn Five online resources worth checking out… TIME has an excellent overview article on Twitter and how it just may change the way we live.The Des Moines Register profiled an interesting charter school in Sigourney, Iowa. I’m very lucky to have the innovative superintendent as one of my doctoral students!Do you know the 10 Golden Rules of Social Media?Philip Greenspun has some thoughts about how the Web and the weblog have changed writing.Tom Vander Ark says that “public education is [General Motors] in the 1980s — it’s dying and doesn’t know it.“See also previous posts in this category!
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