What have you done online? What footprints did you leave behind? Did you leave a comment and like, subscribe, follow and like?

These are questions that I ask my students.   

What is your NET IMPACT?
What is your impact on the Internet?
Are you a consumer or a contributor and a creator?
Did you create a sentence and leave it on the Internet somewhere?

What footprints did you leave behind?   
Did you leave a comment and like, subscribe, follow and like?


Today I signed up to follow a blog by Virginia Hughes.  She writes columns and blogposts about a wide range of ideas.  She is like Dan Pink and Malcolm Gladwell.  They ask questions.  They are curious.  They follow their interests and find answers.

For example, here is a post by Virginia Hughes about a peak experience and how to get in the ZONE between "being bored" and "being anxious"
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/08/20/peak-zone/#comment-3285685


When we are in the Zone, we often forget time.

How can we create a classroom where students are

What procedures will we use in class to encourage students to take time to think or interrupt  or choose to do something else?

What can we do to encourage students to take the initiative?

Tony Wagner's list of 7 survival skills