I am following the rail and signed into this wiki. I have never met David Warlick, but I have read several of your postings over the past year. It was a delight to put a voice and face with the man. Your stories portray your southern background as a storyteller and your enthusiasm and love for discovery and learning. Thank you!
I have been living in China for the past few years, have pursued an online degree through Drexel, so I feel moderately comfortable with this kind of conference--not having a direct touch. Stretching the parameters of time and place allows for engagement and more thoughtful reflection. For those of us in international schools this is a wonderful opportunity. I was reading some information on Google educator, when the comment by Julie Linsay hit the spot--
"To be honest I am a little surprised. Google are starting to really take off with Web2.0 tools and are leading the way in many respects with digital literacy and flexibility of classroom facilities, so why run a 'have to be there in person', f2f pilot? Where is the global perspective? I would love to know if Google will broaden this to include international educators and if they have plans to run online sessions."
I linked to her page and discovered information about this conference. Thank you, Julie.
I am not a blogger, but I have been experimenting with wikis. I have never tried Hitchhiker or making Technorati tags and was eager to try. I had previously posted information about this conference to a librarians' wiki page--so this was my chance to try Technorati tagging. I cut and pasted the code to http://slic.wikispaces.com/Conferences Looking at it--I don't think the tags are active because wikispaces doesn't take html code as do some other wikis like pbwiki. Am I correct about this? Does this wiki take html code? Another question I have--I tried pinging, but I don't think it worked either. Those who are in China know Technorati is blocked. I am excited to see that other mainland China folks signed up for this course, hopefully we will be able to share some of the trials and methods to cope with blocking. I pinged--then received a blank page with the url http://technorati.com/ping/ that said DONE at the bottom. Is it supposed to look like that?
Beth, mine said "thank you for the ping" It sounds like yours worked though. Janice
Beth, I'm not really sure how Technorati will take to a wiki. I would suspect that it would be fine, as the RSS files should be the same, but I haven't tried registering a wiki with Technorati. Great luck to you!