I am truly amazed how inspired I feel when I read my blog feeds in the morning. I am constantly thinking “WOW! what a great idea”, or “Why didn’t I think of that?” It adds a ton of things to my to do list, but it really helps keeps me motivated and inspired. Take for example my resent inspiration about Podcasting. I am strggling with getting podcasting really off the ground, and always looking for examples on share with teachers….
I was wondering if anyone out there can lend a hand. I use PM wiki, and am going to create a page of my favorite videos. This way they are all there when I need them. PM wiki does not let you embed video by default you need to add some php to the cookbook. The PM wiki website has recipes for embedding youtube and google video. I have those working fine, though nothing is currently up on my page….
I have been virtual lurker these past few days, reading blogs from their beginning to the present. This came about after a discussion with a new blogger in my district. She was feeling inadequate, thinking she had nothing new to say, she felt she was trying to catch up, she was not a writer after all. I am not a writer and that certainly hasn’t stopped me. We all enter the blogoshere at different points along our learning path. We…
Will Richardson made a recent post on kids becoming producers. He was reflecting on his daughter’s use of youtube and future video creations. My 13 year old daughter recently produced a youtube video clip and is now excited about future projects. Her 9 year old brother is soon to follow in her foot steps. Will writes… How cool is it going to be for her growing up with the ability to create and publish whatever floats her boat (as long…
Well we are coming into the home stretch of the blogging experience. I believe overall it has been a success. We started with 27 participants two officially drop out after we began. Thirteen people participated fully and blogged about their education specialty, the rest practiced the mechanics of blogging and commenting but without real educational substance. The goal was to expose people to blogging. Within our district there is now a larger group of people who can help make more…
I am not sure what to call it, housekeeping, digital clean up, or web maintenance. But whatever it is, it has taken up quite a bit of time and I am not yet done. In my role as K12 Technology Integration Specialist, I feel it is part of my responsibility to experiment with many of the web tools that are available for teachers. I believe I need to play with the tools to know what will be useful in different…
Scott Mcleod at Dangerously Irrelevant has posted the results of his survey on educational blogging. The results are quite interesting and whether you are a new blogger or have been doing it a while I am sure you will see a bit of yourself in the results.