Category: blogs
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Blog Blocks, Student Influence for Social Change, Edifying student bloggers
Ah, the joys of school district content filters. Note the category / reason for this content filter block: Web Logs / Personal Pages. Unfortunately content filter policies like this which view all “blogs” as evil and inappropriate for anyone to access at school are quite common in the state of Oklahoma, from what I’ve seen.…
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The egalitarian nature of blogging
Scott McLeod has done some interesting graphing of edublog technorati ratings (here and here) and elaborated on his work in his post, “Top edublogs?” Andy Carvin’s post from January 3rd, “Educational Blogging: Avoiding the Usual Suspects Syndrome” sparked a lot of related discussion regarding what he called the “all-star blogger” phenomenon. Some people have expressed…
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Talking about educational blogging with wider audiences
Will Richardson has shared a 2 minute video via YouTube recorded at a panel presentation at the 2006 Milken Global Conference held in April. He discusses the ways blogs can be used by people to control their own learning experiences, and the value of engaging in conversations via the blogosphere. It is great to see…
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Developing blog post topics
Encouraged by Brian and Miguel, here’s a go at sharing how I select and develop blog post topics. Honestly, it’s a very organic, unpredictable, and dynamical process. One key is obviously making the TIME to write. Traveling and being away from home certainly provides that, so as I’m on a trip at present, I’m blogging…
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Blog post listeners, podcatchers and accessibility
I received an email today from a blog reader who is using the “listen to this post” link at the bottom of many of my posts to hear rather than read my posts. She is having trouble listening to my post on John Seely Brown’s interview with Steve Hargadon. Her email prompted me to login…
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Growing list of Edubloggers
Support Blogging has an extensive list of educational blog links broken down by different categories, which include: Blogs on Educational Blogging Student Blogs Teacher Blogs Principal Blogs Administrator Blogs Library / Librarian Blogs Professional Development Blogs There are currently 46 principal blogs listed. Wow! Since this is a wiki, anyone can add their blog address…
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Elevating Creation in Bloom’s Taxonomy in lesson design
In his post “Is Podcasting the New PowerPointing, Or Will We Finally Teach that the Audience Matters?” Christian Long asks good questions about whether podcasting is following PowerPoint, which followed student posterboard presentations, as the modality de-jure of regurgitating back ideas to a traditional school audience (the teacher) in “projects” which reflect little original thinking:…
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Google Reader and OpenID
I have started experimenting with Google Reader for RSS Feeds instead of using Bloglines, and so far I like the results. The ability to star and share feeds is great, and the page loading does seem faster in Firefox. The Google Reader FAQ provides a good overview of its capabilities. I also discovered the OpenID…
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Addressing the lurkers
I love this list of graphics for “National Delurking Week 2007!” These are two of my favorites: In your 2007 professional development sessions at school, consider proposing a “blog commenting” activity. Part of the activity time can be spent edifying student bloggers. The other part can be spent commenting on edu-blogger websites, or other blog…