Really…..!!
If you aren’t reading Graham Wegner’s Teaching Generation Z blog – then let me temp you with this cartoon 🙂 posted as GateKeeper’s Inc. Graham’s reflections on learning and teaching are good value reading.
So the first anniversary of Heyjude has just slipped by – and to be honest, I am amazed at what I have learned, what I have shared, and most importantly, the number of connections and global opportunities that have emerged from being a member of the 21st century learning collaborative. There are a lot of special people who I can thank – just check out my huge Blogroll if you want to grab some of that the inspiration freely available to us all.
Yes, blogging rocks! because through it I can learn harder and faster than any other way. I know how to share videos, and bookmarks, and slides, and images, and podcasts, and thoughts, and ideas, and all of this ‘on the fly’. I can ning! and tweet! and blog! and wiki! and more……..it doesn’t stop, and nor can it as Web 2.0 technologies continue to develop. The ‘blogosphere’ is packed with the most extra-ordinary professionals!!
I want to THANK everyone for a fabulous year. YOU are what has made my learning possible, wonderful, and purposeful.
Finally, I feel connected to the digital natives in our schools! Wow!
So my plug for the day – visit The Global Education Collaborative, and other Ning groups, and live on the wild side! You won’t regret it.
Now, if you are thinking of getting serious about blogging, and using related tools, then this resource list might be ‘just the ticket’. Any suggestions? Just add a comment, and it will get added to the list. Posted by Blogtrepreneur.
Today I met Chris at the ICT Forum. Chris showed me how he could send his pics straight to Flickr, or better still, ‘lovephotoblog’ what he is doing. Chris put this pic up on Betchablog2.
Catch what Chris has to say about all things digital at Betchablog.
I met a few other people too who knew “Heyjude”, but I didn’t know them.
I wonder how long it will take before we teachers operate more effectively with social networking tools to keep in touch.
We are not alone – not really! The global reach of ideas and subsequent inspiration we can draw from each other is just great! …….. and then the opportunity to share, and be willing to share, is the inspiration of Web 2.0…… communication, conversation, connection, community.
My recent trip to NewZealand gave me a wonderful opportunity to listen and learn from academic, public and school librarians – all involved in education and preservation and promotion of culture. We all have our own challenges – but it is not surprising when these challenges sound the same “across the ditch” – their expression, not mine 🙂
I had a wonderful visit to Broadgreen Intermediate – their school library is a design inspiration, which houses NewZealand art (on loan from museums), and reflects design and innovation throughout. I wrote more about this here.
Enjoy the snaps of this wonderful library. 
I was able to talk about the inspiration of global leaders in libraries. My slideshare is a cut-down version of the presentation, which provides the key links to online sites and videos used. There is a slide that features Michael Stephens, a favourite amongst New Zealand blog readers. It’s a great snap of Michael’s online identity!
Links used in the Web 2.0 workshops I ran for Web 2.0 newbies can be found at Workshop Time!
Congratulations to my New Zealand colleagues.
Sorry for all the mayhem! From sound advice from the Blogosphere I will keep Heyjude as the main site for this blog.
Forgive me if you scambled and changed your URL to http://judyoconnell.com. This will work of course, but the main one for tracking will remain at https://heyjude.wordpress.com. This allows me to keep my own domain, and use it in whatever way I wish to in the future, as well as still providing me with an ‘easy’ identity for presentations.
Everyone else? Status quo….but if you need to provide a quick URL for anyone (you know how it is, no pen, need an easy way to remember …feel free to point them to judyoconnell.com for starters!)
I’ve been ferretting away with my domain issue, and discovered that I have two choices…thus if you know anything about these things…give me your advice.
I have told my blog to point to heyjude.wordpress again as the main domain, with judyoconnell.com simply pointing to my wordpress site. The whole blog just flips over – just like that!
With this arrangement the original feeds, and relationships to my posts remain intact. The new judyoconnell feeds and domain routing back to wordpress seems just fine. In a way, this makes sense for me for now, as I only wanted the judyoconnell domain for efficiency. But is this the best long-term approach?
Which of these should I be using as the main domain now? Really…..tell me!
Oh, another tiny plus is that the blogging is more responsive keeping with heyjude.wordpress – but I’m talking seconds here!
The good thing is that WordPress is just so darned flexible – great work from the WordPress team.
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From Twitter this afternoon, via Stephen Cohen, from Jeff Scott, and on Library2.0. at Ning:::: too amazing for words!
I did it! I was able to take all of the library’s notifications and put them into twitter.
I set up our twitter account at http://twitter.com/cglibrary
Then I dumped all of the library’s rss feeds into http://www.rss2twitter.com
Now everytime the library has an update, a library event, a new book or video, or new newsletter, it goes automatically to twitter. If the content is too long for the message, it automatically creates a tiny url.
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I can’t begin to keep up with the range of social networking options that are available to me – and you! There is no doubt that the scenario put forward by those two canny journalists, Robin and Matt, back in 2005 with EPIC 2014, and EPIC 2015 is just happening and happening…….
I’ve been catching up on Twitter (should you or shouldn’t you?), playing around with Ning! (which needs a good focus to make it work well …. gosh, I belong to too many networks, and so for my money Ning is now too cumbersome for quick networking. However, I believe that a focused activity in Ning is very good for professional networking and project work).
But to go back to EPIC 2015 for a moment…..then take a look at NingVisualisation, and at Twittervision.
This morning Twitter gave me this; showed me Tumblr in action; and got me to explore Picnik. I got a peep into the lives of my professional colleagues who so readily shared their moments of insight with their friends. I am wondering where this is fitting into the learning needs of our students. The Horizon Project might help us work some of this out.
This cartoon catches bit of what is happening now in social networking 🙂
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To answer Doug’s question…..and for anyone else who is using wordpress….or is curious….
WordPress allows you to purchase a domain name under Options>Domains. This is a newish feature, which is just great for the average blogger like myself who doesn’t want to go into hosting, or more complex alternatives. Just use any domain register to see what’s available before going back to WordPress to register (since WordPress doesn’t provide that search facility).
Just put in your required domain, and the whole process is approved and paid via paypal in a trice. Also the routing is instant! Why did I bother to register my domain? Because searching earlier this year I discovered that many I am interested in were already gone. I just had to grab the only one that was left that would relate to my online efforts.
For Australian’s who are wondering at the lack of ‘au’? We have much stricter rules around domain registration – so to have a ‘com.au’ or ‘net.au’ for example, I would have had to provide information about my registered company or business. Now that’s a direction I have NO plans on ever going….and it is just so easy to tell people at a professional learning session that the blog URL is ‘judyoconnell.com’. Even though WordPress does a great job in providing information for google indexing and other crawlers (and all anyone ever has to do is go to Google and search heyjude or judy o’connell) I know I still have teachers I work with who find that a bit confusing. So a simple URL is a professional must for me.
My new URL is http://judyoconnell.com, though the full URL at http://www.judyoconnell.com also works.
Of course, my WordPress URL still works at https://heyjude.wordpress.com because I have not moved the blog, just pointed the new domain name to my blog URL. All very smooth via WordPress.com.
I will keep this domain, but how I might be using it in the future might be quite different. For example, my friend John Connell has ‘gone the full hog”. His domain sits here, and his blog (which he arranges his own hosting for having downloaded WordPress from WordPress.org) sits here.
Technorati does not cope with two URLs for one blog – so rankings on the new domain are back to the millions, and the heyjude.wordpress domain will stall and go backwards. Of course, we all know that technorati rankings are artificial – so as Matt says from Wordrpess – enjoy blogging without them 🙂
On the WordPress downside – I have lost the record of all my ‘incoming links’ in my Dashboard. Sorry friends – that was a way that I kept tabs on our global conversation. I guess we will just have to ‘talk together’ some-more 🙂
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