2-in-1: Animoto.com & Macedonia

I’ve been thinking about doing a blog post publishing a collection of Flickr users’ Creative Commons photos from Macedonia. This unusual (for me) patriotic urge has gotten even wilder in the last few days and culminated yesterday when the Macedonian national Handball team qualified in the quarterfinals of the World Cup.

In parallel, I’ve been sort [...]

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4 Educators talk about Edmodo

After my chat with Jeff O’Hara from Edmodo, and wanting to find out more about Edmodo and the way educators the world over use it in the classroom, I turned to Twitter (duh) and quickly got in touch with four teachers eager to answer my questions. Here’s what they have to say about certain things [...]

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Of Family Crises and Offline Social Networking

To those of you expecting my continuation of the Edmodo story: Please be patient for a little bit longer. I’m collecting experiences from educators the world over and will publish those soon. In the meantime, I wanted to write about something which has been on my mind for the past 5 days.
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Some of you [...]

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Edmodo: More than just a ‘Twitter for Education’

I had read something about Edmodo a few months back and remember it being described as “Twitter for Education”. At that point, I was not yet active on Twitter and as such did not quite understand what Edmodo could really be about. Once I did start ‘getting’ Twitter, I was wondering how the hell [...]

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My many online personalities

My last post made me think about the way I may have a severe split personality syndrome online.
I’ll elaborate. But please bear with me and all my numbers.
The first social networking site I ever joined was Facebook. That was about 3 years ago. I am pretty selective with my friends there (I don’t think [...]

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Twitter vs. Facebook: My (Primitive) View (around midnight)

I am by no means representative of the global sample (simply because where I live right now, Twitter has not been adopted as widely as Facebook has been) but I think there is a fundamental difference between how I use Twitter vs. Facebook. First of all, Twitter (by the sheer way it operates) lets people [...]

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