4 posts tagged “edublogging”
(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!
Ok, I'm far from finished building the site (I'm still not happy with the color scheme, and I haven't installed anything to improve it beyond Drupal's basic functionality), but thanks to Chris Craft the Tech Education Network is up and running!
...or at least that's what I'm calling it until someone thinks of a better name. Seriously, I'm open to suggestions. Once we have a good name I'll register a domain name for the site. Until then you can find it here.
Please check it out, kick the tires, and let me know what you think. If you like it, please pass this along to others who might be interested. If you think something should be changed, then post something in the forums or send me an email at theartguy@gmail.com .
... and please, don't judge it by its current color scheme template. I'm still working on that.
I'm looking into open source software that can be used to help build an online community - sort of like Vox, except it would be only for people working in the educational field. I've had friends try out Elgg, but they didn't like it. I've heard good things about Drupal, but there seems to be some criticism over its ease of use.
So now I'm also looking into Mambo and Plone.
Plone has some demonstration videos on its site, and I must say it looks rather sweet. I haven't played with any of these yet, but I think I really need to.
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.)
