First six weeks back at work have been a blur. Not quite in the clear yet, but truly needed some down time, so I spent today on the sofa with the cats. They napped while I started to reconnect with my online life.<\/p>\n
First, I peaked at a few of the 1608 unread posts in my blog roll<\/span>. I know I’ll realistically never get time to read all of those, but here a a quick few that have me thinking.<\/p>\n And speaking of the Learning 2.0 conference, I spent a bit of time joining the conference Ning<\/span>, inviting conference attendees to join my network, and creating a blog in my profile. Ning<\/span> still seems a bit slow, but I’m more comfortable with it now than I was last spring when I first joined the Classroom 2.0 Ning<\/span> network. Back then it was so slow (at least when used from Singapore) that I gave up on it.<\/p>\n Another social networking tool that the conference is employing is Twitter. Interestingly enough, I first heard about the conference via a tweet by Jeff Utecht<\/span>. I had played around with Twitter last spring, but I can’t access it at work, and most the people I follow in it are in in North American, so not many tweets come through when I am online. However, I just downloaded the new Twitterific<\/span><\/a>. I’d tried out a previous version last spring, but it was buggy. this new version seems much more stable.<\/p>\n Finally, I spent some time in Facebook<\/span>. I joined last summer to see what all the fuss was about. At that time, not many people I knew were using it actively, and I didn’t have time or interest to use it for finding new ones.<\/p>\n Now a few more friends are in there, and through them I’m discovering fun apps to add in, and groups to join. The latter are interesting. I suspect for teens the groups work. For ed tech adults most of the groups that interested me had hundreds of users and no action. I wonder if it is because people join and then never check back or if some key catalyst is missing to make the reaction take off.<\/p>\n So now it is 7:45 pm. I’m stiff from sitting on the couch all day, but I feel grounded in a way that has been missing for months. This Geek Girl is happy again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First six weeks back at work have been a blur. Not quite in the clear yet, but truly needed some down time, so I spent today on the sofa with the cats. They napped while I started to reconnect with my online life.<\/p>\n First, I peaked at a few of the 1608 unread posts in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning2-0-webapps-blogs","category-pd-personal_growth","category-software","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssedro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n