The Blog of Ms. Mercer

I began to realize that my old mobile phone (limited to texting, and calling, 0-9 keyboard, no camera, no MP3) was not hacking it in the last 6 months. I began to look longingly at mobile PDAs, etc. I also hated going out to a fun and photograph worthy event with son, and having this [...]

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I will not be able to participate on a daily basis, or anything close to that as the school year winds down, but I did want to take some time to reflect on some of my online conversations, since there are some interesting and complex discussions underway…
It started with Clay Burrell’s post, Muhammad Ali: A [...]

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I’m testing out Google forms so I thought I’d create a questionnaire about my blog. Help me test Google forms and give me feedback on this blog:

or here:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=p42QQMxBVvRECEANW5hhgaw&email=true

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Because Instructify, has asked me to join them in bringing Web 2.0 to the teaching masses (in nice 200-300 word bites).
First post will be revealed on Monday. Wish me luck!

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Well, here they are, your weeks in a paragraph….First up, is Liza Lee Miller who made me think again, so I added that important qualifier “some” to my request for paragraphs post…
It is spring and many a fifth grader’s fancy turns to love and they act the way we see on tv. And, that is [...]

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Sorry Kevin, I can’t play by the rules. I know, I know it’s supposed to be “A Day in a Sentence”, but let’s face it, it’s been subverted and bastardized from the beginning. It’s done weekly, and so has been more of a reflection on a week, than a single day. It’s also been a [...]

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Team WhiteBoarding with Twiddla - Painless Team Collaboration for the Web
 
Is a new tool for collaboration on line

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I don’t always put up family pics here, but I recently went on a day trip to Yosemite. Since it is a popular destination for anyone traveling to California (it makes up one point on the California triangle that Europeans take through here: Disneyland, Yosemite, San Francisco). I wanted to share some tips for traveling [...]

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Here are some pics from Flickr using the Splashr iframe slideshow to test how edublogs handles iframes now that they’ve unblocked them.

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I will be going to the CUE (or Computer Using Educators) conference in Palm Springs. I’ll be getting up very early Wednesday to leave so I can attend another un-conference from Classroom 2.0, EdubloggerconWest.
In addition to getting a haircut, I’ve been doing other things to prepare:
Pageflakes - Language Development

Here is the PageFlake for my [...]

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