6 posts tagged “blogs”
Mr. Belshaw gets what the US government does not:
"Social networks are things that can and should be used in schools. But I don’t think we should be encouraging them to use their MySpace or Bebo account: we should be encouraging them to use spaces that we set up with them collaboratively."
Unfortunately, the bad things (perceived or otherwise) about certain web 2.0 websites could very well end up ruining it for any teachers in the US who have actually bought into all this new stuff.
My Bloglines account has been getting a little bloated of late, thanks in part to people like Chris Craft who seem to recommend 4 or 5 new blogs every time I talk to them, but also thanks to my tendency to leapfrog from page to page until I don't know how I got there but I'm glad I found my way,
Ahem. In any case, I'm currently subscribed to 142 different RSS feeds, and while I don't think they're all trash (as the picture might suggest), that is still a bit overwhelming for me. As a result I'm going through and unsubscribing from some of them. It's a painful choice for many reasons, but I have a hard time justifying why I'm subscribed to a blog that hasn't updated updated since it's first post. (One blog had it's last entry from 2005!)
So will this help me read through my subscribed blogs faster? Not really. Since I'm mostly trimming the blogs that haven't updated in months or even years, I've still got all the ones that have 5-20 new posts.
But at least the blogroll on my main blog looks a little better, now.
Kevin's kids have been making some great stop motion animations. I love projects where the adult steps back and helps when needed but otherwise lets the kids do what they want - the results are often quite imaginative.
My Art Club kids have been working on animations as well, and while they're much more simple, I like them. You can see the two I've uploaded so far by going here. I've got more to upload, but I'll do that later.
(Taken from Dangerously Irrelevant)
All education bloggers are hereby invited and encouraged to...
- complete the short and completely unscientific, but hopefully interesting, education blogosphere 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.
Survey results received by Sunday, January 14, shall be posted in the town square on Wednesday, January 17.
Those solicited who choose not to participate shalt be labeled both publicly and widely as dastardly scoundrels, notty-pated hedgepigs, or beslubbering, doghearted, maggot-ridden canker-blossoms!
Steve Dembo posted this in his del.icio.us links:
"As an innovation-based company, we believe in the importance of open exchange and learning – between IBM and its clients, and among the many constituents of our emerging business and societal ecosystem. The rapidly growing phenomenon of blogging and online dialogue are emerging important arenas for that kind of engagement and learning."
My goodness - if IBM can find it in themselves to be that open minded, why can't schools?
I'll be running workshops on PowerPoint design and blogging (& podcasting netcasting) at this weekend's Powering Up With Technology Conference, and I am looking forward to it, but I just got notice asking for presenters at this year's MICCA Convention and I don't want to do the same thing as last year.
So how about a workshop on two way teaching? The concept's been around for a while, but there are a lot of websites and other tools that can help make two way teaching a LOT easier.
Info:
K12 Online Conference Presentation on 2WT (The presentation that made me think this would be a good topic.)
Two Way Teaching Wiki (As of this posting it's very sparse, but could grow if it gets some help from others.)
