May

12

Social networking for educators

May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I’m doing a two-part learning lunch series for my staff on social networking. Many of my staff are, shall we say, experienced educators, and have not experienced social networking or even be able to describe it.  So during the first part we are looking at what is social networking, and next week is how is [...]

Mar

22

Connect to other educators through Twitter

March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment

There are many ways to find educators on Twitter and I’m going to highlight one today – Twitter4teachers. Why highlight this site? It is actually an open wiki, organized by subject area, and educators who twitter can join and easily add themselves to the wiki. This is also an easy way to find a teacher [...]

Feb

10

MIWLA Connect Update – the power of one

February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment

MIWLA Connect has taken off, and I have to give a lot of credit to one person, Emily Serafa-Manschot. What did Emily do? Well, Emily invited many of her world language friends in her address book to join the community, she has started blogging, and suddenly the community is gaining feet. Why is this impressive? [...]

Sep

12

Volunteering at Kiva

September 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Ever hear of Kiva? Kiva lets you select entrepreneurs in developing nations and contribute a loan to that person through financial partner organizations. Basically, it works like this:

Pretty cool! Creating that connection by personalizing the loans. I admit, I have few loans out – and it is very addicting to want to help [...]