Communicate » Social Networks http://www.cindykendall.com cindykendall.com Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:44:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Social networking for educators http://www.cindykendall.com/2009/05/12/social-networking-for-educators/ http://www.cindykendall.com/2009/05/12/social-networking-for-educators/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 13:15:33 +0000 ckendall http://ckendall.edublogs.org/?p=50 I’m doing a two-part learning lunch series for my staff on social networking. Many of my staff are, shall we say, experienced educators, and have not experienced social networking or even be able to describe it.  So during the first part we are looking at what is social networking, and next week is how is social networking used in education. This will be interesting!  Learning Lunch Launch Sheet (PDF)

]]> http://www.cindykendall.com/2009/05/12/social-networking-for-educators/feed/ 0 Connect to other educators through Twitter http://www.cindykendall.com/2009/03/22/connect-to-other-educators-through-twitter/ http://www.cindykendall.com/2009/03/22/connect-to-other-educators-through-twitter/#comments Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:33:21 +0000 ckendall http://ckendall.edublogs.org/?p=49 There are many ways to find educators on Twitter and I’m going to highlight one today – Twitter4teachers. Why highlight this site? It is actually an open wiki, organized by subject area, and educators who twitter can join and easily add themselves to the wiki. This is also an easy way to find a teacher who twitters, making it a nice place for the newbie Twitterer to find a few folks to follow. And, adding oneself to the wiki is an easy way to experience editing a wikipage!

]]> http://www.cindykendall.com/2009/03/22/connect-to-other-educators-through-twitter/feed/ 0 MIWLA Connect Update – the power of one http://www.cindykendall.com/2009/02/10/miwla-connect-update-the-power-of-one/ http://www.cindykendall.com/2009/02/10/miwla-connect-update-the-power-of-one/#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:05:49 +0000 ckendall http://ckendall.edublogs.org/?p=46 MIWLA Connect has taken off, and I have to give a lot of credit to one person, Emily Serafa-Manschot. What did Emily do? Well, Emily invited many of her world language friends in her address book to join the community, she has started blogging, and suddenly the community is gaining feet. Why is this impressive? Because Emily probably wouldn’t call herself a techie! I’m pretty excited – we have educators from around the country and world joining us.

]]> http://www.cindykendall.com/2009/02/10/miwla-connect-update-the-power-of-one/feed/ 0 Volunteering at Kiva http://www.cindykendall.com/2007/09/12/volunteering-at-kiva/ http://www.cindykendall.com/2007/09/12/volunteering-at-kiva/#comments Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:31:52 +0000 ckendall http://ckendall.edublogs.org/2007/09/12/volunteering-at-kiva/ Ever hear of Kiva? Kiva lets you select entrepreneurs in developing nations and contribute a loan to that person through financial partner organizations. Basically, it works like this:

kiva loan cycle

Pretty cool! Creating that connection by personalizing the loans. I admit, I have few loans out – and it is very addicting to want to help others. And you can see the other people who have also contributed loans. Loan recipients submit 1-2 journals over the course of the loan, enabling the lenders to receive news of the endeavor.

In the spirit of helping, I noticed that Kiva needs volunteers to translate microloan descriptions. So I am now officially a Kiva Volunteer. Every week, on Fridays, I translate loan descriptions from Spanish to English. Pretty neat thing going on here, connecting every day people from around the world to give a helping hand to our fellow human beings!


Kiva - loans that change lives

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