Damon Hargraves

Facebook and Twitter have dominated social networking for a few years now.  (Yes, there is LinkedIn and others, but who really uses them?  How many people do you know who've logged in this week?)  In contrast to everything else, Facebook and Twitter are used far more.  As a testament to Facebook, just think about who you have as a friends.  My friends range from former students, to high school buddies, to family, and business associates.  Both my dad and my niece are my friends on Facebook and I watch them use Facebook like crazy.  They run in totally different circles, communicate with totally different types of users, use Facebook in different ways, but we all are able to maintain a unified connection with each other. To me Facebook has become the online catalogue for my relationships.  Regardless of who you are there are enough people on Facebook to make it useful to almost everyone.  It's a giant catalogue of pictures, postings, musings, comments, and the latest news from ...

Heidi and I will be in Cape Girardeau for just a few more days, and then we will be heading back to Alaska. We are here in Cape because I will be presenting a session on blogging in the classroom tomorrow at the Southeast Regional Professional Development Center's third annual Southeast Missouri Technology Conference, Educating Educators Electronically. What a fun way to end the summer. It's been a very busy summer to say the least. Here are some pictures that highlight some of what we've been up to over the last few months.