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My Blog Formula

Wish you could write a blog entry? It's not as hard as you might think, but some folks find it so when starting out. I suspect it's the absence of an audience...I know I wrote many

Nothing Profound

On the last day of the year, I wonder, "Should I have some profound bit of wisdom to share?" I take a moment of self reflection, a bit of time to look into my mind to see what, if

Switching Blog Platforms

The transition away from Twitter has made me question other online services. While I have been a free, open source advocate, I had my stint of administering my own server(s) at wor

Rusty Water

I was just reading this morning about how the brain works. If you aren't learning new stuff, getting fresh input for your brain, it can have bad effects in the long run. I cited th

Prolifically Creative

If you've worked in a small group in a class, as part of a team at work, you know what happens. In spite of the best efforts of the committed, there's always someone who steps up a

Updates and Changes

For the longest time, I've relied on the dynamic view template for this blog. It was less fuss than the previous ones. Still, each time I visited Around the Corner , I found mysel

Navel Gazing: Top Blog Posts

It's fun to dig around and see how one's blog posts are doing. I don't get to see stats for my day blog entries, even though that's a huge motivator. That's probably what finally p

Here There Be Dragons: Blogger as Explorer

As I peer into antiquity, I realize that my blog, Around the Corner , is old. Not just middle aged but in its prime, but ancient in social media years. There are times when I doub

Navel Gazing: Twitter

Last week, the moment came and went. It wasn't much of a moment, but I was still shocked to see it happen. Having blogged over 12k entries just here at Around the Corner alone (b

Retweet Worthy?

Ok, as a fun experiment, I've written several blog entries this evening while listening to the awesome Lindsey Stirling... [youtube 1.

5 Ways to Slay the Energy Vampire

Over the last few years, I've seen my energy level slowly decrease. It's weird, only 10 years ago, I remember working all day, heading home and blogging 5 6 entries in a short time

Reflect, Don't Critique

Well, I think I might be ready to start my teacher blog! If I share a draft with you, would you be brutally honest in it's critique? ;) Above, you see the request of a new teache

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Tell a Story

Educational leaders telling digital stories...it's a powerful idea that has little to latch onto in terms of "real life." How many educational leaders do you know actually tell dig

The Write Way

Shouldn't kids be taught to outline their non fiction writing BEFORE they write it? I'm not sure. As a writer myself, I NEVER outline my work. In fact, I find outlines to be too re

Blog Navel-Gazing

While visiting Angela Maiers' new blog site, I noticed a scoring tool and decided to apply it to Around the Corner...here is the summary of results,

Fascinating list of blogs

What a fascinating list of blogs...will have to check to see how many aren't on the Google Reader list...thanks to these folks for compiling the list,

Edublog Awards 2010 - Uh, no

It never fails. Some kind person just nominated ATC for the Edublogs Awards. Since I've explained why not before, I'll just go for a simple, blanket "Thank you for your thoughtful

Forgive the Navel Gazing

Forgive the navel gazing, but I just discovered the Stats tab on Blogger. I should have noticed it sooner, but, to be honest, it's over there next to the Monetize tab which I studi

What is Shared, Endures

Sometimes, it's true that the only thing that remains of what you've done is what you've shared with others. Such is the case with an old Technology & Learning blog entry I wrote t

Why Blog

Wrote this so long ago it seems...but it captures why I blog...but it would be inaccurate to say that I've managed to live up to my own standards 100% of the time as expressed here

$1200 blogging bill

As someone who is always concerned about saving money both at home and work (i'm not sure which pushed me over the edge in saving money) and pinching the dollars until they scree

Blogging Tips

Steve Dembo (Teach42.com) writes: As some of you may know, I'm in the middle of running a 30 Days to Being a Better Blogger challenge on Teach42 right

Anatomy of an OPML

With 164 blogs and more coming online we're using an Apple Blog/Wiki xServe every day, I'm tempted to do a victory dance (don't count on it). One of the challenges is keeping up

Live Blogging NACOL

The VSS highlights the cutting edge work in K 12 online education across the country. It is the only national conference focused solely on K 12 online learning and virtual school

Take the Green Pill - Blog!

I want to know what all of these teachers are thinking. What is your purpose? Why are you into podcasting/blogging/videocasting? What do you hope to get out of it? Is your