by Whitney | Jun 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
Or, perhaps this should be called- Knowing Just Enough to Cause You To Waste Time. We can’t all know it all, especially in new media. New applications and tools come online just about every day, making keeping up, let alone mastery, nearly impossible for any...
by Whitney | May 19, 2008 | education, learning, new media
A friend of mine asked what I thought about lawyers using social media tools for communication and networking. I wrote a long email back, and it became clear there was a blog post brewing, so here it is- my thoughts on the use of social media for professions,...
by Whitney | May 19, 2008 | education
For the second year in a row, I have helped organize and worked all last week at the Book Fair at our local elementary school. We use a local vendor, rather than Scholastic, and the Fair always has amazing books I’ve never seen before. This is not a fund raiser...
by Whitney | May 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
Julien Smith has a great video posted on his blog, featuring a lecture by Elizabeth Warren ,a law professor at Harvard Law School, discussing the gradual erosion of the American Middle Class over time. The most important points she makes (to me) are the financial...
by Whitney | May 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
At a session at Podcamp NYC on Education and the Web, Chris Hambly spoke about teachers becoming “Guides on the Side” rather than simply talking heads in the front of a room. This neatly summed up something I have been thinking about for some time, which...
