Category: blogs
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The case against classblogmeister
I posted a couple of comments on Mark’s blog continuing the conversation about classblogmeister. Again, I’ll state my original position. Classblogmeister is a wonderful tool and perhaps the best starting point for teachers and is an ideal tool for younger students. (I’ll leave the definition of younger students to the reader) At some point one…
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Podcast72: Pros and Cons of Educational Blogging Options
After a bit of a rocky start with the skypecast host (that was me) demonstrating remarkable ineptitude in misidentifying muted participants, we had a lot of fun discussing the pros and cons of different educational blogging tools like Classblogmeister, learnerblogs, blogger, etc. We discussed issues of content control, both with student writing (how grammatically correct…
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Robot replication in the blogosphere
I use the Technorati link for “blogs that link here” on my blog fairly often to see what other folks are saying related to my posts, to check out their blogs, comment on them, etc. In the last week I have noticed an inordinate number of links (like one for every post I have) from…
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Engaging in the educational work that matters
I really enjoy reading Doug Noon’s posts on Borderland. Doug epitomizes the reflective educational practitioner who is blogging about his journey. This evening I wandered over to his about page, and read the following paragraph for the first time: Educating people for a democratic society is cultural work. Teachers must become border crossers. We need…
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Lazybase and database of blog tools
Miguel Guhlin introduced me this evening to the web 2.0 tool Lazybase, which allows anyone to quickly create a shared online database with custom fields. VERY cool. Miguel started a Lazybase site for blog tools (http://lazybase.com/blogtools) in anticipation of next week’s collaborative skypecast about the pros and cons of different blogging tools for teachers and…
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Pros and Cons of Educational Blogging Options (A skypecast invitation!)
I’ve setup another skypecast for this Tuesday, July 11th at 8 pm US central time called, “Pros and Cons of Educational Blogging Options.” (Use the previous link to actually join the Skypecast when it starts– you might bookmark/favorite that page so you can easily return to it later.) The idea for this Skypecast was inspired…
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Safe blogging and Classblogmeister
Mark Ahlness has written a great post he titled “The Case for Classblogmeister” that teachers and administrators contemplating options for classroom blogging should definitely check out. If you’re not familiar with David Warlick’s free Classblogmeister tool, you definitely should be. Many, many teachers are using it– and others started with it who have branched out…
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Making information irrepressible
Amnesty International (UK) sponsors a campaign on the website Irrepressible.info which seeks to internationally defend and support the cause of free speech. According to the about page of the site: The web is a great tool for sharing ideas and freedom of expression. However, efforts to try and control the Internet are growing. Internet repression…
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China continues to police blogs
Think monitoring the IT environment in your school or school district is challenging? Try the nation of China, another authoritarian organization seeking through its IT policies to largely control and limit the freedom of its network users, rather than empower them. According to the CNN article “China steps up controls on blogs” last Friday: China…
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Prospects of infinite bandwidth
I borrowed a copy of George Gilder’s book “TELECOSM: How Infinite Bandwidth will Revolutionize Our World” today, and the following paragraph really captured my imagination and attention on page 4: The ability to communicate– readily, at great distances, in robes of light– is so crucial and coveted that in the Bible it is embodied only…