Thursday, June 18, 2009

WELCOME

Welcome to the SNWP Summer Invitational Institute Blog. I'll see you again on Tuesday!
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4 comments:

  1. marilynJune 21, 2009 at 8:35 PM

    Thanks for getting us set up, Michael! I am really interested to see how this blog evolves. I've been thinking a lot lately about our theme of "Making History" and how it relates to the idea of the power of social networking as it is playing out in Iran. Twitter posts (tweets?) are coming fast and furiously, capturing the momentum, the passion, the desire of ordinary Iranians to have their voices heard in a country that has repressed them for decades.

    Along with expressions of Iranians we're seeing supporters around the world blogging and twittering in solidarity and even offering advice about such things as gearing up in neighborhoods to be sure medical supplies are on hand in the event of attacks by the police, the Bassiji!.

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  2. Michael MonsonJune 22, 2009 at 8:46 AM

    This is an interesting article from the Washington Post... I love the idea of the US State Dept. stepping in and asking Twitter not to do a scheduled maintenance shutdown so that we could continue to receive "unfiltered" news about the election in Iran. There is also an interesting discussion about the actual validity of the Tweets.

    http://tinyurl.com/m23jeu

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  3. RobertJune 22, 2009 at 10:11 AM

    Michael
    Thanks for giving the presentation on blogging. It really helped me put my teaching demonstration together.

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  4. NHolleyJune 22, 2009 at 10:32 AM

    All the participants were seated at their perspective computers, trying to fight the machines for access. They all tried to compromise with the number of letters and digits. As the next batter stood to face the crowd, the paparazzi flashed, the crowd waited anxiously to find out how to motivate students on the very tools we were exchanging uncomfortable boxing with. Blogs are just one approach... one we will all be familiar with at the end of the demo.

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