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I encourage new visitors to the website and blog to join our professional learning network (PLN) via Facebook and Google Friend Connect so that we can all engage in more active and collaborative ways. I hope you’ll join our educational community (click on the buttons below) and let’s have fun learning together. Please feel free to invite other educators, preservice teachers, homeschool families, and anyone with an interest in education and technology, too.
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I encourage new visitors to the website and blog to join our professional learning network (PLN) via Facebook and Google Friend Connect so that we can all engage in more active and collaborative ways. I hope you’ll join our educational community (click on the buttons below) and let’s have fun learning together. Please feel free to invite other educators, preservice teachers, homeschool families, and anyone with an interest in education and technology, too.
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I encourage new visitors to the website and blog to join our professional learning network (PLN) via Facebook and Google Friend Connect so that we can all engage in more active and collaborative ways. I hope you’ll join our educational community (click on the buttons below) and let’s have fun learning together. Please feel free to invite other educators, preservice teachers, homeschool families, and anyone with an interest in education and technology, too.
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I’ve recently setup a Facebook page for Clif Mims.com which includes my entire educational website and this blog. This provides us additional avenues for sharing resources and engaging with people that share an interest in education, technology, instructional design, curriculum, professional development, technology integration, Web 2.0 and social media, and more. 
I’ve added fan box widgets to my website and towards the bottom of the right-hand menu of this blog which show off a few random avatars of people that have already become fans.
Please click the gray “Become a Fan” button and join the learning and fun.
This blog turned 2 years old on February 4. I actually set it up while we watched the 2007 Super Bowl. Here’s a look back at some of the blog’s events, changes and friends that made this 2nd year really special.
As I mentioned earlier this week I am going to spend some of my vacation time on my personal professional development. I’m looking forward to catching up on some reading, working on a few things that I’ve been wanting to write, developing and revising some of the instruction and resources in my courses, and becoming more familiar with a bunch of Web 2.0 tools and services.
One thing that I have managed to do so far is setup MyBlogLog profile. Their tagline is “Discover who’s visiting your site, and connect with your readers.” I welcome the possibility of getting to know all of you better – that way we can learn together. I’ve had the account for a while and used it occasionaly, but I’ve never really setup my profile. I’ve noticed the MyBlogLog widgets on many of the blogs that I read and have been waiting for a window of free time (It’s been a long wait!) to become as familiar with the service as I wished. While playing with the service I noticed several useful ways that it can be used. MyBlogLog’s community features make it easy to find and connect with people that teach the same grades and courses as you, share your interests, and live all around the world. It also has a social aggregator feature similar to friendfeed.
I realize there’s been talk the last couple of weeks of Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect possibly becoming the front-runners, so we’ll see how it all plays out. Anyway, I like MyBlogLog and I’ve added a link to my profile under the Clif’s Resources section in the right-hand menu of this blog. Please, please feel free to network and learn with me through this service.
I’ve made some additions to the blog. Take a look and let me know what you think, please.
Wimbledon starts on Monday. I’ll post my predictions before it begins.
Suggested Reading
Diigo’s Psychotic No. 1 Fan – Miguel Ghulin
The Last Professors – Inside Higher Ed
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Resources
Gravatars, Identicons, and You – Stack Overflow
Gravatar’s on AnotherGuy’s Weblog – AnotherGuy’s Weblog
