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This post from David Pogue is worth reading - and the gazillion comments:

Last week, I wrote an entry on my blog that began like this:

“One of these days, I’m going to write a book called, ‘The Basics.’ It’s going to be a compendium of the essential tech bits that you just assume everyone knows–but you’re wrong.

(I’ll never forget watching a book editor at a publishing house painstakingly drag across a word in a word processor to select it. After 10 minutes of this, I couldn’t stand it. ‘Why don’t you just double-click the word?’ She had no clue you could do that!)”

Many readers chimed in with other “basics” that they assumed every computer user knew–but soon discovered that what’s common knowledge isn’t the same as universal knowledge.

I’m sure the basics could fill a book, but here are a few to get you started.

Just arrived at Tapanui on a lovely sunny morning and will see how the Scribd version of my workshop imbeds. Should have done this last night but was watching the Warriors game …lol

Followed the link from Tony’s blog and found an amazing array of cool videos.
Would this be fun to do with kids or what!!

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

Anyone want to get a shot of kids in your school dancing and lets make a video together??

How can you do this without smiling - and thats the point

I was one of the many who took the opportunity to upgrade recently to FF3 for the Mac. Is anyone else finding blog and wiki dashboards are well and truly screwed up, as well as my Bloglines showing no entries at all? But they look ok in Safari …?

There has been a buzz over the last few days about NY city education Dept banning employees from puting blog urls (etc) in their email footers. Lisa Nielson who is the professional development manager for educational technology at the NYC Department of Education seems to have prompted the ban. Ha …. now theres an irony.
Her blog is interesting reading! Take the time to have a browse….

The recent entry on digital footprints and being responsible is very good! Good points for all educators to ponder…

Five ideas to enable educators to develop and model a purposeful and professional digital footprint.

1-Model responsible footprinting with your own practices in blogging, commenting, social networking, and picture posting.
2-If you have established a professional blog, share it widely and proudly such as placing it in your email signature (if your employer will let you) and as Jeff Utecht suggests include your blog url when you comment on others blogs and in other forums. This enables others to see best practices and is a great way to get the conversation started.
3-Google yourself (aka ego surfing). If you have something posted online that you’d be uncomfortable having a current or future student, parent, colleague, or employer find, delete it (if you can) or request that it be deleted. There are ways an aggressive internet detective can still find this information, but most won’t go through the trouble and the mere fact that you deleted it shows some level of responsibility.
4-If you do have online personal information and/or interests you wouldn’t want discovered, use an unidentifiable screen name/avatar. This means you may need to update your screen name/avatar in your existing online presence.
5-Engage in the conversation and professionally comment, reply, and present online, onsite, and at conferences.

Hopefully these ideas are helpful for some readers and I’d love to know others experiences with negative or positive repercussions from digital footprints. If this topic is of interest click the following links from a 20-something career expert who shares another perspective on why the lines between personal and professional lives should be blurred and why the whole idea of our lives being available for public display is actually pretty cool.

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…. a quiz just for fun!
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thanks Rachel

A comment from Rachel Boyd on my post yesterday prompted the thought ….

Remember that in aggregators like Bloglines you can share and see what other people are reading and looking at. On the right hand side of this blog is a section called “Spaces and Places” and one of the links in there is “My Bloglines”.
If you click on the link it will take you to a list of all the blogs that I subscribe to…

In my presentation for the Time4Online Conference (linked in an earlier post) I talked about this and other features of aggregators. I find some of the most interesting things I come across in this way - just browsing through other people links or commenters.