Sara Kerr

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

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  • Originally posted on Keeping Faith Today: In the temple Jesus found people selling oxen, sheep, and doves, and money changers sitting at tables. Jesus made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple—sheep, oxen, money changers. He poured out their money and overturned their tables. He spoke to those selling doves,…

  • Originally posted on Educational Technology and Change Journal: By Melissa A. Venable [Note: ETCJ’s Twitter editor, Jessica Knott, has been working with Melissa to develop this series. See Part 1: Getting Started, Part 2: Channeling the Streams, and Part 4: Participating in a Live Event. -Editor] In part one of this series we covered many of…

  • 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…

  • Pinterest for Business and Non Profits

    Like Twitter, Pinterest’s beauty is it’s simplicity. It’s fun, it’s easy, and it drives traffic to websites. I’m sharing excerpts from two articles. Please share any tips in the comments below How to use Pinterest for business from Hubspot Common vocabulary below, but do download the free e-book to learn best practices such as pinning…

  • 3 Great Uses of Twitter: “Bonny Bear,” #NotBuyingIt, and Breaking News

    ONE:  To find out what people are really talking about — the back story to the news ‘Bonny Bear’ wins two Grammys, confounds populace  The Grammy’s bore me, so I recorded the 3 1/2 hour show and whizzed through all the stuff I didn’t care to see. I was delighted to hear Bon Iver win…

  • Read THIS! Bullet Points and Headlines (Thoughts on #Writing in #highered)

    I got your attention, didn’t I? Of course I did. My title is compelling. You, too, can writing attention-grabbing headlines. Read on. The next three excerpts come from Copyblogger.com. If you’re not a subscriber to their blog, sign up here. I can almost guarantee that if you follow the advice below, your writing will sharpen.…