Comments on: Talking About Thinking

By: Newman Lanier

Newman Lanier — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:56:29 +0000

Thanks for checking it out. The new map sites are terrific. Be sure to look at http://www.wayfaring.com and http://www.mapbuilder.net .

Too Funny! That’s your screen shot. I remember it from looking through before. Mine isn’t anything special.

Take it easy!
Newman

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 01:15:48 +0000

Newman, I like your Frappr idea. I’ll get to it in the next few days. I hadn’t seen the site before, and I want to look around at it a little bit and get a sense of what other people are doing with it. As for the flickr desktop-show-and-tell group, I thought that was pretty slick, too. I put my own desktop on there, and it’s gotten hundreds of views! More than anything else I’ve ever put on the web. It’s a NASA image, so I can’t really take credit for it. But still it is kind of fun to see the counter change by the minute.

By: Newman Lanier

Newman Lanier — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:12:06 +0000

I wanted to write and say thank you for the great posts. Your Metacognition is pretty cool.

Can I ask a favor? I’m trying to help establish the blogger community in Alaska - I lived there in the 90s and sort of ‘care take’ an old web site - http://www.alaskagold.com .

If you would, please link your location and Blog address at http://www.frappr.com/alaskanbloggers . It’s a map of Alaska and I hope to collect the locations of a bunch of Alaskan Bloggers. You might find others who are blogging, and others might find you.

Thanks,
Newman

By: Newman Lanier

Newman Lanier — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 03:51:59 +0000

Parents model for their children. And teachers model for their students. It seems to be a natural way to learn and, yet, an un-natural (or at least uncommon) way to teach.

I have found a very cool site that is basically a “modelling” of how people use their computer (just as you model reading). It’s a Flickr group of pictures of peoples’ desktop. Our personal computers are very new (20 years old) and there are no hard, fast rules on how to use them. I’ve picked up quite a few tips (download folder shortcut on the desktop, putting the menu bar on the left side and auto-hide’ed). check out the group at
http://flickr.com/groups/lifehacker-desktop-showandtell/

… anyway, just thinking outloud … thanks for the great posts of late!
NSL

By: botts

botts — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 03:12:48 +0000

hi doug

a great read (again). isn’t it strange how often we take things that we do naturally for granted. i have always responded to what i read. i predict, i ask questions, i dogear books, i write in the margins, i tell my friends what i’m reading and what i think of what i’m reading, sometimes i blog about what i’ve read too..actions and reactions. not once (until today) have i questioned the idea that other people may not interact with their reading materials in the same way.

my 8 year old does some of these things too as he reads, i guess because he sees and hears me doing the same thing, i don’t think i’ve ever consciously shown him how or why to respond in the way he does.

anyways thanx for a great read

botts