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Hey Cathy! I looked for you a

2009-03-21T21:50:37.272+01:00

Hey Cathy! I looked for you at UTC, but I never did get to meet up with you. I did want to let you know that our group from North Carolina thought it was fabulous! I presented 4 times and each time we were full (one was even at 8:00!!). We are talking about coming again next year instead of going to our State conference. You guys in SC sure know how to put on a conference!Talk (see) to ya soon, Danita

I believe that filters are a n

2009-01-24T10:32:25.890+01:00

I believe that filters are a necessary evil in schools. And while I will also agree that understanding how filters work and why they block what they do is something educators should know, it doesn’t address the issue of who CONTROLS the filter. As you pointed out, many IT folks haven’t taught in a classroom, yet they are the ones deciding if the tools we need to do our jobs can be accessed or not. I’m all for going through channels to obtain what I need to do my job, but from experience, going through those channels just isn’t always practical due to time constraints. I know educators are supposed to plan ahead and should be checking resources they want to use ahead of time, but come on, they’re too busy teaching to have to time to check every website they want to use to ensure it works at school. Most teachers at my high school do their lesson planning at home, since their “planning” period is usually taken up with make-up testing, subing for other teachers, or running off copies and any other errands they need to perform. If a website they want to use is blocked, they just better pray there is another site or other alternative available. Going through channels could mean the site gets unblocked days, weeks, or even months after the unit is already finished, if it gets unblocked at all! If asking for sites to be unblocked needs to be planned in advanced, how far in advance? Most of the web resources listed in the TEXTBOOKS are blocked. Does a teacher have to go through them ALL prior to school starting just to make sure they aren’t blocked? And even then, the sties could be working today but be blocked tomorrow! I’m not saying that our IT department is bad or doesn’t make every effort to assist teachers. And I certainly wouldn’t want their job – worrying about the security of our district’s network – what a headache! All I’m saying is that teachers, or at least an administrator or media specialist, should have the ability to override the filter in order to facilitate learning, while still going though proper channels to have the sites permanently unblocked….something your district understands and that I wish ours would understand, too.

Resume – Curriculum Vita

2009-01-20T03:08:59.462+01:00

Resume – Curriculum Vita « Bringing my network with me

I think your -wp ate my commen

2009-01-08T07:07:49.141+01:00

I think your -wp ate my comment so I will try to post it again – please delete it if it magically reappears again! It was a real pleasure to have had the opportunity to speak to your students (and yes I do sleep sometimes!) I thought my accent would be a dead give-away that I wasn’t in America but obviously not! Even though your internet eventually let you down I am sure that you did a brilliant job of improvisation! Let me know if I can help again, anytime!

I think I’m more interested in

2008-12-15T14:30:06.972+01:00

I think I’m more interested in following people than worrying about who follows me because I feel I have so much to learn from others. I tend to follow people who mention education in their profile or I see them in a conversation about education. If someone follows me and they are not in education, I don’t usually follow them. Just recently I found out from my twitter friends that it is okay to block people, I have started to block people who just want to sell me something.

It was great meeting you yeste

2008-11-07T23:41:58.084+01:00

It was great meeting you yesterday! You are so right about feeling like we all knew each other already. I hadn’t heard anyone mentioning much about your session being cancelled so I’m sure they survived. I’m sorry you missed David Jakes’s keynote because it was awesome. I also attended his other session which was great. I did come away with a door prize though. I won speakers for my laptop! Hope to see you again f2f!

Will be interesting what she d

2008-10-18T23:37:40.903+02:00

Will be interesting what she decides as to whether she gets you to set up or works together with you to set up. Agreed something simple – but I do think my bad URL and blog name totally outranks yours which is why I suggested taking the time to get it right. I suppose when in doubt go with your name.

Hi Cathy,I am here at BLC with

2008-08-02T17:47:52.689+02:00

Hi Cathy,I am here at BLC with the lot above in the comment queue. I’ll do my best to keep you in the loop. It would have been great to see you here, however.

community…wow, was mine enlarg

2008-07-26T01:04:47.731+02:00

community…wow, was mine enlarged!circle of influence…I plan to make sure mine is updated by all I saw, heard, and learned

Cathy, We missed your input in

2008-07-21T15:46:50.421+02:00

Cathy, We missed your input in the conversation yesterday at EdubloggerCon East. I hardly got to speak with you at NECC, but I know the smaller the setting, sometimes the better and I’m looking forward to Educon 2 to renew that sense of community. We had a taste of it yesterday – but it was too short!Lisa

@Colleen and @Alice I will mi

2008-07-15T14:46:19.287+02:00

@Colleen and @Alice I will miss hanging with you girls and learning so much from you once again. I've already begun the conversations to be involved in Educon2.1. We must have a reunion! @Ewan - I still am reeling from your announcement about leaving education to be in in a television industry. I have to give it up to you though, as you are a lot of the reason i was able to enjoy BLC last year, and desired to be there this year, even if only virtually. Your photos (which have already begun rolling out) and blog posts about the conference last year really gave me a feeling of being present and accounted for. Say hi to jeff M for me!

It’ll be a shame not to see yo

2008-07-15T14:45:59.287+02:00

It’ll be a shame not to see you again this summer, for some more time maybe, but I understand your thoughts. Conferences like this one, in particular, depend on teachers going back home afterwards and running mini-BLCs or mini-NECCs in their districts. Hopefully those coming will do so; I’ve already seen Jeff, so will hope that he does something along those lines. Already, with UTC, they’ve shown great willing on Continuing Professional Development. I’d say things are looking up in your part of the world.

Hi Cathy: I commend you for ma

2008-07-15T14:45:44.287+02:00

Hi Cathy: I commend you for making this decision, as hard as it must have been. I am so impressed with your work and all the ideas you have shared. I’ll miss seeing you f2f for sure!. But, perhaps it’s worth thinking about this as a long term goal of getting the district team as excited as you are about 21st century learning. It’s great that you were able to influence a team to attend. This decision may come to benefit you in other ways. It could be the beginning of some great happenings for students in your district…. Hope to see you at EduCon2.1

Hi Cathy,I have to echo Charle

2008-07-15T14:45:36.787+02:00

Hi Cathy,I have to echo Charlene’s sentiment – your decision is certainly a noble one. I hope the “lucky six” will be changed by the experience and will share their epiphanies with others in the district.I will miss not seeing you there but will look forward to Educon 2.1. I’ll be attending Marc Prensky’s sessions – I’ll see if I can get him talking about his math game

I was sharing your story with

2008-07-15T14:45:29.287+02:00

I was sharing your story with my husband and we both want to commend you on such a conscientious attitude. As a SC taxpayer, if more teachers would act as responsible as you did, maybe there would be more money for things that could affect more people. I think it says alot that you made this decision and the administration didn’t make it for you. I know how hard it must have been for you to make this decision but we applaud you! My hubby wants to know if you would move to our county and influence people here!

@Elaine Thank your that thorou

2008-07-15T00:46:19.039+02:00

@Elaine Thank your that thorough description of the filter you use and how it works. I see teachers as being less frustrated when these things are explained and shared, and they have the opportunity to buy in to the philosophy behind it. It sounds like you have a lot of educational background too, so the decisions are being "processed" through one who has been in the trenches of teaching, so to speak. Based on responses in the survey and conversations at NECC, many IT have no educational background, and that is not only frightening, it is sad. Welcome to my network btw. I noticed you are now following me in Twitter.

Hi there, Your post came to me

2008-07-15T00:45:59.039+02:00

Hi there, Your post came to me via a google alert search with the term website filtering. I work in this area and know that teachers find much of the process frustrating. I like the section where the issue of categories was explained and also the fact that different levels of access to categories and individual sites can be applied.We have a web filter check all teachers can use and an explanation about categories. Still not enough understanding exists around why some categories are blocked.Also enterprise filter products vary quite a lot I understand. Older versions may have category names that continue to block social networking sites.The awesome highlighter is categorised internet services. We would have it available to all here. Maybe it is blocked for copyright issues?All teachers understand the blocks for several categories eg. p***, drugs, alcohol etc. Blocks applied for bandwidth, security etc are harder fro some to understand. With web 2.0 tools it is a movable feast. The blog rejected the post the first time, sine I had used the category name p***.BTW, we have penalties for anyone who tries to avoid the webfilter, by using a proxy.It is easy to access a free URL checker on the web.

I enjoyed reading the results

2008-07-15T00:45:49.039+02:00

I enjoyed reading the results of your survey. It really does show the wide range of policies, policy makers, and applications used by IT, LMS and teachers. I think that we do have it pretty good in HCS. I wonder how I will find things in Gtown Cty? Paula

Thanks for sharing the results

2008-07-15T00:45:39.039+02:00

Thanks for sharing the results. This was really interesting. I wonder if SC is more conservative than other states and keeps tighter reins on filters. Thanks for doing this survey too!

@Diane - Being new in my schoo

2008-07-14T21:00:30.489+02:00

@Diane - Being new in my school, I didnt't feel I had the "pull" to get another to go. Guess that means I still have my work cut out for me. The one (I wanted to go (Mr Granito) couldnt b/c princ said I needed a female roommate--imagine that. He would have been fab. He has recently moved to northern NJ darn it!) The library coord. expressed concern to me about my decision to stay home, so i suppose that is affirmation that I am the reason they decided to go. Doesn't that sound a little egotistical and self centered. I guess this post is also my little pity party. But I a living with my decision, and I am hoping the Ustreams I think are going to come out will be solid and wonderful!! The EdubloggerCon East material so far has been great. Your friend, Bud the Teacher, and Stefanie Sandifer have been leading the backchannel to me. @Charlene How wonderful for you to encourage me in the middle of my pity-party! Let's hope I have great things to share about this year. BTW--I can't seem to get your blog to load...

Cathy,I hope your belief that

2008-07-14T21:00:00.489+02:00

Cathy,I hope your belief that less committed educators should be exposed to the riches and benefits of such a conference results in a core group of inspired and connected people.Have your administrators indicated that the money they “save” by your withdrawal will, indeed, be used for PD? The fact that the district is willing to fund such travel & learn opportunities would lead me to believe that they do more than pay lip service to 21st century learning.That bodes well for staff and students!

Connect, Convene, Transform: N

2008-07-14T16:08:38.799+02:00

Connect, Convene, Transform: Necc 2008 Remembered http://technotuesday.edublogs.org/2008/07/04/connect-convene-transform-necc-2008-remembered/ – bookmarked by 3 members originally found by MajdyJ on July 06, 2008

Hi Cathy, Great getting to me

2008-07-08T23:40:34.333+02:00

Hi Cathy, Great getting to meet you in person. The supper was really fun. Nice picture! (Which one is me again?) All the best from your "old" friend. Doug Computers Commercial Consumption Curmudgeon

All I can say is “Way Cool!”

2008-07-06T20:34:35.414+02:00

All I can say is “Way Cool!” Let us know how it goes.

I am submitting our SCASL prop

2008-07-06T17:02:17.664+02:00

I am submitting our SCASL proposal TODAY!

Cathy, Sounds like your NE

2008-07-06T17:01:57.664+02:00

Cathy, Sounds like your NECC presentation went above and beyond your expectations! I will probably curse myself later for this, but I would love to be in on a session like you suggested for SCASL. We need to show (and I need to learn!) the power of combined forces for encouraging others to use the tools that will engage our SC learners. The reason I say I will probably curse myself for this – I will be taking the two capstone courses of my MLIS and doing my student internship in the spring. But you can count on me to help.

Julianne wrote (via the contac

2008-07-06T04:14:03.916+02:00

Julianne wrote (via the contact form): "I really like the key ring idea. I went to the Upstate Technology Conference in Greenville, S.C. and left with a stack of notes and papers. It would have been much easier to have had a key ring with the information I needed!" WOw what a great idea! Thanks Kevin Honeycutt AND Julianne (jvkaye). This is a fabulous idea not only for quickie style staff developments, but also sessions at conferences--a keyring tag. Wonder how much a really hard plastic one would run me? I may have to look onto this seriously1

@diane--you would say that! I

2008-07-05T21:53:07.423+02:00

@diane--you would say that! It was so awesome to be around the queen of metaphors-I loved your slides! Oh to be even a little like you. @Rob I had read that Steve was doing that, but could not muster getting out of bed before 10am today, and I never sleep late. NECC has just wiped me out, and ie yet to recover. Thanks for sharing the link so I can go back and see/listen/read what others said. Steve was AWESOME at the conference. Such a labor of love he puts into it, and it showed. Someday, my firend, we will meet f2f.

Thanks for the pictures and th

2008-07-05T21:52:47.423+02:00

Thanks for the pictures and the names that go with them! Looking forward to one day meeting you in person And all the C’s are great reflective thoughts. Steve Hargadon did a round up of NECC this morning and many of your thoughts were echoed there via Elluminate. You’ll find that at: http://www.classroom20wiki.com/live+conversations.

“Cathy” was a keyword for me –

2008-07-05T21:52:37.423+02:00

“Cathy” was a keyword for me – so wonderful to finally meet you in person Conversation was my favorite way to connect because it frequently led to cognition (and sometimes unexpected interpersonal chemistry!).Hope to C you again in the not too distant future (Hi, Carolyn).Mrs. Cordell

@Leslie - I was told they woul

2008-06-27T02:33:18.896+02:00

@Leslie - I was told they would put signs on the door. I didn't decide to cancel right way, else Jeff would have announced at the beginning of Ewan's keynote. I even gave thought to coming and doing the 8:00 session and then driving on to Columbia for the standards work, but the more I thought about the gas from Rock Hill to Greenville, and then from Greenville to Columbia, and then Columbia back to Rock Hill, well...it just sounded very wasteful. The curriculum project I'm involved with at the sde will help change the view of teacher librarians to more of a collaborative team player, so I thought I should keep that commitment. Also, when I read that Don Cantrell had a similar topic,I didn't feel as guilty. I am now feeling huge EMBARRASSMENT at the thought of people waiting on me. Bummer. Again, I am so sorry.

Sorry to hear your sessions ha

2008-06-27T02:32:58.896+02:00

Sorry to hear your sessions had been scheduled on the wrong day. I was one of about 10 or 12 people sitting in room 910 this morning waiting to see your presentation. We did not realize you had to cancel. I hope your meeting at SDE was productive. Teacher voice is so important and should be utilized at every given opportunity.

This made me realize that i "n

2008-06-19T04:38:24.969+02:00

This made me realize that i "need" it despite what others think. My twitter fix is healthy. Yeah!

Sorry I didn’t see your query

2008-06-19T04:38:04.969+02:00

Sorry I didn’t see your query - lucky I could respond at all with the filter Nazis ramping up their activity in our district.Without “The Power of Networks” my professional development would consist of one-shot workshops with no follow-up support and whatever educational reading I sought on my own. There would be no friends in faraway places, no updates on sites, tools, resources, and no challenge to extend my horizons.Now that I know what being connected means, I won’t give it up.

Glad you are venturing back. W

2008-06-19T04:37:54.969+02:00

Glad you are venturing back. We have missed you and your Southern sensibilities. You are a part of many of OUR networks.

Sorry I couldn’t make it- I wa

2008-06-14T22:16:12.052+02:00

Sorry I couldn’t make it- I was at the Learning at School conference up in Rotorua and our motel didn’t have ANY internet access at all- I felt like I was disconnected and didn’t get your DM until too late. Chrissy is fabulous- I think she rarely sleeps. I now have my phone set up to receive DM tweets when I can’t get near the internet.I am going to ask my boss for a wireless vodem card this week. I don’t know what my chances are but I have to ask.CheersAllanah

Hi Cathy - I laughed at your c

2008-05-22T01:44:06.567+02:00

Hi Cathy - I laughed at your comment - no, you weren't part of my not very active participation in the comment challenge.... I was genuinely interested in your post - but I suppose it does tick a box... :)

@HarrietYou may also want to t

2008-05-21T18:46:01.910+02:00

@HarrietYou may also want to tell teachers that many are not funded b/c writers do not follow the directions. When writing a grant, be sure to follow the directions to the letter, or some funders will not even look at it no matter how wonderful. Karen Kliegman– Google Karl Fisch and then contact him for a great description. He saw it at another school. But he shared enough to get my mind churning out an idea from it.

Where could I get more informa

2008-05-21T11:46:41.008+02:00

Where could I get more information about the techstravaganza? You got me curious!!!

Great post, thank you. I agre

2008-05-21T04:47:20.106+02:00

Great post, thank you. I agree, grant writing is a tricky process and there's remarkably little word of mouth feedback and support for it, especially given the vital importance it has to most of the work we do... How many of us fund our innovation in a 'project' by 'project' fashion.... I'm going to share this with the staff here... thanks.

Will CERTAINLY be taking you u

2008-05-21T03:46:58.591+02:00

Will CERTAINLY be taking you up on that pal! Watch your email.

CathyI’ve never written a gran

2008-05-21T03:46:38.591+02:00

CathyI’ve never written a grant, don’t know that I’d be very effective at it. However…I’m not bad at proofreading other people’s efforts.If I can help, just let me know. I’ll bask in reflected glory.diane

Cathy,I’m really looking forwa

2008-04-29T01:01:11.833+02:00

Cathy,I’m really looking forward to it, and think your idea is such a creative one! I’m hoping it’ll both wow the kids and convince them that education is an innovative, happening place to be See you then!

I am just getting into twitter

2008-04-27T04:23:27.851+02:00

I am just getting into twitter now and get very excited when someone asks to follow me. But I have realised that there is a lot of spam and also competitions for people to see how many people they can follow - mad or what? I follow educators but would love to have a network made up of my own profession (midwives) but cannot see that happening for a while. cheers Sarah

Mainly my gmail and Google Rea

2008-04-26T08:43:19.054+02:00

Mainly my gmail and Google Reader. But I do also have some bookmarks e.g. links to work email account -- that I don't want shared. Can use Elluminate.

@Sue–I could probably use a pe

2008-04-26T04:20:10.252+02:00

@Sue–I could probably use a personal tour of the g-reader management system, as well as your references to igoogle. What do you have coming into your igoogle page for twitter links? how? demo?

@Cathy sorry but I think there

2008-04-26T02:08:35.852+02:00

@Cathy sorry but I think there lies your problem. Google Reader isn't busy there are some strategies for using it effective. Perhaps I should do a live online session using it? @Kate shame on you! LOL My Google Reader is part of my routine. iGoogle is my homepage. All my feeds from Twitter come into it -- including the link monitor that captures the links from twitter. It can save you time if you use it wisely.

Sue – I’m using Google Reader

2008-04-25T17:59:34.581+02:00

Sue – I’m using Google Reader and I know what my main problem is It’s that I often go for a few days without even opening it! I email subscribe to my favorite blogs and read so many from twitter that often I’ve already read some of the feeds before I even get to Google Reader! I like to subscribe to a lot of feeds because I use it as a blog search engine for when I’m looking for posts on particular topics.

Sue–I like Bloglines. I tried

2008-04-25T13:55:03.947+02:00

Sue–I like Bloglines. I tried G-Reader but just did not like the busy interface.

@Cathy not sure if I could cal

2008-04-25T09:50:33.313+02:00

@Cathy not sure if I could call my hubby LMW -- will have to think of another term. My first question to both you and Kate regarding your reader is which reader are you using? Maybe there lies the issue.