I have had sore feet for most of my life (that I remember).

I took special interest then, in this article in the New Yorker on walking and shoes. It suggests the best “medicine” for your feet is walking barefoot!

Kevin recently posted about a new book that looks good, entitled Digital Ego.

We have talked a lot to teachers for the past two years on Internet safety, cyber-based copyright, etc., and there is a genuine concern for student safety. Are we careful to warn against using too-revealing information about ourselves?

This topic interests me because you do gain a reputation through search. I chose some time ago to use my real name for this website. I wanted to build a reputation, a type of “digital identity.” I figured if someone knew my name, they ought to find me in my own place online.

In college, we never used our real names, we used handles. And I use handles too, for non-professional activity online.

There’s some saying I seem to recall… “You’re only as good as your reputation” or something like that. It’s a reminder that in this emerging stage of electronic culture, our identities are very vulnerable.

Zotero is a new tool that facilitates online research.

This image compares it with Diigo and del.icio.us.

I liked Gen Yes’s quote from Papert:

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

What was even more interesting was a comment from Lisa-Gaye that she gets tired of teaching with colleagues who are “sages on the stage.”

Having just went through something with many of our teachers along this vein, there was some resistance. Some simply will tell you “I don’t have the time or patience” to change my teaching, use technology, or… learn something new.

Becoming an agent of change is tough work, no doubt about it.

I put together an entry for the Dangerously Irrelevant button contest! I like what I came up with.