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  • Podcast116: Safe Classroom Blogging to Improve Student Writing

    This podcast is a recording of my presentation at MacWorld 2007 at the K-12 Educators Market Symposium produced by California’s Computer Using Educators Inc. My topic was Safe Classroom Blogging to Improve Student Writing. The 6.5 minute video I shared at the start of the presentation is shared under a Creative Commons license and available…

  • Perspectives on classroom blogging video (final)

    I’ve updated the draft version of the video I originally titled “safe classroom blogging.” The final title is “perspectives on classroom blogging.” Thanks very much to everyone who provided feedback and suggestions. I’ll be showing this video in about two hours in my presentation on “Safe Classroom Blogging” for the MacWorld 2007 K-12 education day…

  • Draft Safe Blogging intro video

    I’ve completed an initial draft of the video I plan to use at the start of my MacWorld 2007 presentation on “Safe Blogging to Improve Student Writing.” Full credits are listed on the video’s wiki page. The video is in QuickTime format, so you’ll need free QuickTime player software installed on your computer to view…

  • Blog widow?

    I found this image today on Flickr, piecing together images for the video I’m going to use next week at MacWorld. Anyone feel incriminated by this?! On a day like today when I’m glued to the screen, I’m afraid I do! 🙁

  • Teen perspectives on DSN

    Sharon Peters has posted an excellent podcast interview with Meg, her 14 year old daughter, that provides good insight into the ways some teens are using digital social networking sites and being safe/smart about the information they share online. Meg agrees with the idea of NEVER sharing your correct age on MySpace. She also is…

  • Following blog conversations

    I discovered co.mments.com today thanks to Alex Ragone. The free web tool lets anyone track comments and dialog on posts located on different people’s blogs. This is really helpful to track conversations, since relatively few blogs now seem to provide an option to be notified via email when additional people comment on a post. Dean…

  • Online identities, anonymity, and consequences for digital behavior

    I was interested to learn yesterday’s print (as well as online) edition of the local paper in Lubbock, Texas, has a few articles about blogging and digital social networking which provide a slightly more balanced view of these tools than more typical, “MySpace and blogging are evil” sort of headlines. Both articles are written by…

  • Blogging to order and control consciousness

    I am continuing to work my way through Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s book “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.” When I read the following sentences last night, I thought about blogging and the writing environment of the read/write web. The introductory sentence to the following paragraph on page 131 belies the fact that the text was written…

  • Empowering citizen journalists

    In my every-other Friday post for TechLearning last week (“What are you going to do?”) I made a brief reference to the pivotal role citizen journalists play and are likely to play around the globe in the years ahead: The causes of human rights and self-determination, along with many others, have more potential to be…

  • Podcast106E: Draft for Review and Feedback – Safe Classroom Blogging

    Blogs are being SAFELY used by classroom teachers around the world to help students develop and refine their abilities to write and communicate effectively. Learn about a variety of classroom blog examples, and how you can get started using blogs in your classroom with free, safe digital tools. (This is an audio-only version of this…