Sara Kerr

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Lover of Snow, Winter Vacations, Good Beer & Great Music, Minnesota Weather, French Wine & Sidewalks. Yogi for life.

Month: March 2012

  • Wonderful summation of how to read Twitterfeeds in a meaningful way: taming the chaos.

  • Student Writing: A Me Vacation

    Originally posted on debrasoulejohnson: My friend Terri and I were chatting on the phone over the weekend–and she told me that every year she takes a vacation by herself… …”A Me vacation,” as she puts it. Spending some time alone or with friends clears her head and invigorates her, and she returns home to her…

  • Social Media for Social Change: The Girl Effect & KONY 2012

    The Girl Effect and Half the Sky. Learn more at http://www.girleffect.org and join the movement at http://www.facebook.com/girleffect. The Girl Effect is a solution to poverty. If we do our part, 600 million girls in the developing world will do the rest. KONY 2012 KONY 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children that aims…

  • Authentic & Believable: What Makes a Teacher Rock

    I know a teacher. She’s amazing. I plan my schedule around her teaching schedule. I put up with overcrowded classrooms just to learn from her. Imagine wall-to-wall yoga mats that are a scant 8 inches from one another. There’s no room to do a forward fold with your arms spread wide, it’s next to impossible…

  • Pinterest, Copyright, and the Jave Meetup 612 (#JMU612)

    Yesterday, I spent a fun couple of hours chatting with local social media fiends about Pinterest. We didn’t cover copyright issues, but many of us have been digging into it since then. My Take Away Pinterest draws traffic to the source website, which is awesome from a search and marketing perspective, but sounds illegal. Pinterest…