We are about half way through the blogging experiment. I met with the largest group of participants this morning, I meet with the rest by the end of next week. Pretty much everyone has started blogging. Many became so caught up in the reading that they forgot about posting their own reactions. When you first enter the world of blogs you can easily suffer information over load. This lead to a nice discussion on that new 21st century literacy skill,…
Passing on a request from Dangerously Irrelevant for all education bloggers to… complete the short and completely unscientific, but hopefully interesting, education blogoshpere survey; forward the URL of said survey to all other known education bloggers to ensure decent representation of the education blogosphere; and publicize said survey URL on their own blogs to foster greater participation in this most noble endeavor.
I have been thinking and reading a lot about blogging lately. What’s driving my thinking? Working with 27 new bloggers and discussing why we blog, the blogging process, why links are important and how to fill out your blog roll. Tim’s post at Assorted stuff is about the new blogging tools to be added to his district’s BlackBoard site. He’s concerned because these tools do not include RSS and are protected thus limiting the conversations and collaboration they could facilitate….
A large portion of the participants in our little blogging experiment are special education teachers, at the elementary level. I am looking for resources I can direct their way, specifically blogs and wikis. The links below are from Special Education Bloggers, please comment and let me know of others. I know there are some great resources out there. Mechelle DeCraene in an email offered to lend a helping hand to our participants. Karen Janowski is an assistive technology consultant and…
It has been a busy couple of weeks as it always is before a school vacation, there are many loose ends to tie up and holiday celebrations to attend. We complete our first round of the blogging workshops with a grand total of 27 participants. Everyone now has a bloglines and edublogs account. Their current assignment is to read, reflect and write. I am looking forward to what happens next, it is a great group of teachers and administrators and…
The December 8th eSchoolNews article, Ruling: Schools must archive eMail: New rules make eMail, instant messages subject to legal review suggests that provision of student email accounts by schools may become even rarer in the United States. Many free web-based email services are already blocked by school district IT folks, in an ostensible effort to force teachers to use their district-provided (and trackable) email accounts, and encourage students to remain on task with district-assigned computer tasks which DO NOT include…
This morning the winners of the 2006 International Edublog Awards were announced. The online awards ceremony took place as a chat at EdTechTalk and a skypecast. It truly was an international event with people participating from England, Portugal, Canada, Chile and the US among others. One of the winners in the category this blog was nominated in was the Spanish language blog from Chile tilt!, the other co-winner was Ed Tech Journey. I really enjoyed the collaborative nature of the…