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8 hours ago
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: I'm looking for a gadget to embed GWave in my WPBlog or wikispace and stumble across the gadget that lets me embed my blog and wiki in Wave."
21 hours ago
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: http://twitpic.com/r08hy - The day begins with sunrise. Prairie skies always fill me with wonder; like I wonder when I will be free to enjoy"
21 hours ago
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: http://twitpic.com/r06de - Told Moose Jaw would love to reduce public transport; crazy thinking! Get on a bus people."
1 day ago
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: http://twitpic.com/qvf15 - Tree at Sunningdale; a little bear decoration for each kid in school - nice tradition."
2 days ago
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: Difficult absorbing all the information tonight. Google Wave & Classroom 2.0 forum expanded things greatly; I have an impulse to pull back."
2 days ago
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: http://trunc.it/3l9cq provides a nice list of teacher roles. Mutual learning takes place, but it is misleading to suggest equality here."
2 days ago
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: Co-learner, codependent, coincidence, coconspirator, co-llateral damage, co-jargon, co-paradigm shift, co-ol, co-lleague, co-llaborator, co-"
2 days ago
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: http://twitpic.com/qqyje - Tuesday morning bus ride; 25 minutes to check Google Reader. Still feel like a teen playing on his phone."
3 days ago
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: Check this video out -- A Bikini and Sunglasses by Masaaki Kishibe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTKwKuZB0Sw"
4 days ago
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: http://twitpic.com/qjp4t - November Sunday stroll with Lory; love living close to downtown."
5 days ago
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: Back at the bank to finalize RRSPs for no. 2 son; this is taking a while :/"
5 days ago
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: Trying to motivate myself for a walk downtown. Looking grey out there :/"
6 days ago
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: Interviews are done for the day, three to pick up next week after school. Another good morning."
6 days ago
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: Can someone look at my blog page http://trunc.it/3i8wa and tell me whether they can view my embedded Wave? It wonder if non-wave users can."
Nov. 20
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: First round of interviews are done. Time to head home. It was really a pleasure chatting with parents; tired looking kids though."
Nov. 19
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: http://twitpic.com/q530e - Getting Dave on Twitter. Follow him!"
Nov. 18
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: PSSD put Chrome plugin on the classroom desktop; Wave at school, yay! Gadget for embedding Wave on WPblog failing, boo! Progress by degrees."
Nov. 18
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: http://twitpic.com/pzf2g - Wednesday morning bus ride"
Nov. 18
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: Memo to self: Avoid Shareski (more than usual)"
Nov. 18
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: forty minute conversation with my 86yo mother on Skype. Bet her U of R EdGen100 classes would be interesting if she had the tech we do now."
Nov. 17
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: Wife is telling me my mobile will cause cancer. It is the new tobacco it seems. Comments anyone?"
Nov. 17
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: Added Google Reader to my mobile, now I can check the news. Good thing, Google Wave was distracting me this morning. I need a Wave app now."
Nov. 17
Alan added the blog post Pushing my board out to the Wave on WordPress
"I was very curious about Google Wave. When my nephew first offered me an invitation I turned him ..."
Nov. 17
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: Gad zooks! I just embedded a Google Wave into my blog and it can be edited from the blog. Check it out! http://trunc.it/3deni"
Nov. 17
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: I think I have made the rounds to all of my forums, feeds, accounts and of course twitter. I even Skyped tonight with No.1 son in Australia."
Nov. 17
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: Okay I need to abandon my Google Waving for a while. I think I see where it is going now."
Nov. 16
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: I am exhausted from playing with Google wave. alan.stange@googlewave.com Connect with me please. Teaching has become very interesting."
Nov. 16
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: http://trunc.it/3dzss I am figuring out Google Wave with the Classroom 2.0 crowd. It is lots of fun."
Nov. 16
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: Pours a small glass of red wine to celebrate, report cards are done. The venerable MS Outlook schedules interviews quite nicely."
Nov. 15
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: No. 1 Daughter reports scratching sounds in the ceiling of her basement apartment; time to get a kitty I think."
Nov. 15
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: Ning looks good, *sigh* just one more tool to clutter up my workbench I think. It's like running to Canadian Tire for a tool you misplaced."
Nov. 15
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: Firefox and Delicious work hand in hand on my computer. I like Safari for a browser in Windows but there is no plugin I think. Am I wrong?"
Nov. 14
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: Sitting at the bank with my 20yo setting up RRSPs, wish someone had sat me down in 1976. Got first credit card too, he'll stop using mine."
Nov. 14
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: My marks are entered in the report cards. Now it is time to turn my attention to authentic comments that are not redundant reviews of marks."
Nov. 13
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: http://larrycuban.wordpress.com/ This is my first opportunity to listen to Cuban. The back discussion is interesting too."
Nov. 13
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: Sir Ken Robinson said "The US Education System has been colonized by the testing companies.""
Nov. 13
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice - live in Elluminate at 5pmPT / 8pmET / 1amGMT http://tr.im/futureofed"
Nov. 13
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: School sells better grades for $20 http://bit.ly/gUDgT"
Nov. 12
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: The plan for today is looking a little vague at the moment. Perhaps coffee will help clarify things. So much done yesterday, so much to do."
Nov. 11
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: Joined colleagues at the school to collect assessment data instruments & think about posting SLOs prominently. Nobody was preparing lessons."
Nov. 11
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: Okay people, tweet me with directions to a Google Wave so I can see how this thing works. No rush, I just want to play with it some time."
Nov. 11
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: Elluminate Live was an interesting experience. Very student friendly I thought."
Nov. 11
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: I joined google wave ... for whatever that is worth. I will need to see it in action now. I like the way these applications are moving."
Nov. 10
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: I think I have to tear myself away from this all and get some sleep. There will never be enough time to explore the Web 2 universe."
Nov. 10
Alan added the blog post Social Media in Learning examples on WordPress
"Social Media in Learning examples. This link was worth taking a minute to blog about. Alec Couros..."
Nov. 10
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: Speaking of Lie to Me, that would be a seriously good trait to have as a teacher. How come we don't inservice that for teachers?"
Nov. 10
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: I'm watching House and Lie To Me is on next. I wish that stack of writing assessments would vanish. I do have stairs to chuck them down...."
Nov. 10
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: Fishing for comments and collaboration at the Classroom 2.0 forum. All I really needed was another forum and blog. They even have a wiki :/"
Nov. 9
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: wooh wooh! My sub request for this afternoon's digital portfolio meeting was accepted. So many colleagues down with flue, I wasn't sure.☺"
Nov. 9
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: http://tweetphoto.com/720c50 Working on report cards this morning"
Nov. 8
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: RT @TelegraphNews Comic books are good for children's learning http://bit.ly/1gcncp . Differentiated learning challenges our assumptions."
Nov. 8
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: http://twitpic.com/os0jo - Borrowed Lory's netbook so I could check benchmarks as I enter grades"
Nov. 8
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: http://twitpic.com/orokl - Sunday morning report card session: time to pull the individual comments into the report card spreadsheet."
Nov. 8
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: Listening to Cibelle while I work, my wife thinks it rather strange (no puns intended there) http://bit.ly/10hm8t"
Nov. 8
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: I followed the traditional tech solution, power down & reboot. Students look stunned at me when I yank power cords in the lab, always works"
Nov. 8
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: http://twitpic.com/optee - First picture"
Nov. 8
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: suddenly my Blackberry internet service is not connected. I am starting to get the shakes here. This has never happened!"
Nov. 8
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: http://twitpic.com/ope5y - Trying to figure out how to use twitpic. Is there any advantage to it?"
Nov. 8
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: I'll avoid thinking about the Riders for fear of spoiling their play. I swear any interest on my part leads to mediocrity on their part."
Nov. 7
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: http://tweetphoto.com/e027c7 Ready for the oven"
Nov. 7
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: Baby's first language; I wish I could remember the music I was playing back then, it was the 1980s so I am scared http://trunc.it/3237k"
Nov. 7
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: http://tweetphoto.com/9b7076 I think that says it all; engine still running too."
Nov. 7
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: http://tweetphoto.com/9ace18 Bright Saturday sunlight and I am doing report cards :("
Nov. 7
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: This looks like a good deal, http://bit.ly/1ETNgg"
Nov. 7
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: Time for a movie with Lory. Okay we didn't go out, just Movie Max. Still we are empty nesters so in your face."
Nov. 7
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: Posted some prosaic thoughts on Internet neutrality this morning: http://staff.prairiesouth.ca/sites/stangea/"
Nov. 6
Alan added the blog post Internet Neutrality on WordPress
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Nov. 6
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: There are moments when I find it hard to assess the wikispaces/digital portfolio project. It flows at different speeds and there are eddies."
Nov. 6
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: searched differentiated instruction and got some interesting tweet results."
Nov. 5
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: RT @courosa: "50 Common Mac Problems Solved" http://bit.ly/EA3jq (I can't believe there can actually be that many 'problems')"
Nov. 5
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: Found (fake) Wasabi and pickled ginger; yay! Now I feel like making sushi again; of course I just made it for lunch :p"
Nov. 4
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: I'm more interested in following Courosa's tweet-links this morning than the repetitive cycle of news from the TV. Engaging series of links."
Nov. 4
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: V was more promising than I thought it would be. Mega ships hovering over the world's major cities is getting a little shopworn though."
Nov. 4
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: I decided to watch V for a while. All I remember of the old series is a vague memory of impatience or boredom. Alien soap?"
Nov. 4
Alan updated Twitter
"stangea: My son is leaching the data stream to bring in a new game. I seem to be off the internet for the next hour. Our Sasktel router sucks I think"