Category: blogs
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Unimproved ends?
I have listened to about an hour of “A Knock at Midnight: Original Recordings of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.” as a purchased audiobook from the iTunes Music Store. I have really enjoyed it so far, and highly recommend it. Listening to the words of Dr. King, spoken himself in original recordings, is a powerful…
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Podcast32E: Cultivating Digital Literacy Through Blogging and Podcasting
This is an enhanced podcast that can be played through iTunes, viewed as a webpage, or heard as a mp3 version (see the show notes.) 21st century literacy skills (or digital literacy skills) and the skills cultivated in a high-stakes testing classroom environment seem to be mutually exclusive. This session from TCEA 2006 explores how…
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Podcast32: Cultivating Digital Literacy Through Blogging and Podcasting
21st century literacy skills (or digital literacy skills) and the skills cultivated in a high-stakes testing classroom environment seem to be mutually exclusive. This session from TCEA 2006 explores how blogging and podcasting can be used to cultivate the digital literacy skills our students need for success today and tomorrow. Program Length: 39 min, 43…
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Holocaust cartoons
CNN is reporting this morning that: A prominent Iranian newspaper says it is going to hold a competition for cartoons on the Holocaust to test whether the West will apply the principle of freedom of expression to the Nazi genocide against Jews as it did to the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. How sad that…
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EduBlog 2005 awards
The EduBlog 2005 awards were given for “scholarly and education focused bloggers.” Categories included: * Most innovative edublogging project, service or programme * Best newcomer * Most influential post, resource or presentation * Best designed/most beautiful edublog * Best library/librarian blog * Best teacher blog * Best audio and/or visual blog * Best example/ case…
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Setting up a classroom blog
Mike Hetherington has posted some great directions for “How to set up a student centered classroom blog.” Mike recommends using learnerblogs.org. He has been pleased with results for his Room 613 Student blogs. Mike posted the following comment this evening to my post on “Student publishing is key.” This is exactly the type of thing…
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Professors should blog
Jay Rosen, author of the PressThink Blog, led the conversation about blogging and academia on November 4, 2004 at Bloggercon III at Stanford. This quotation from a participant (I am not sure who it was) is very insightful in the context of higher education and reasons why graduate students and professors should be blogging. It…
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Student publishing is the key
David Jakes, in his post “One Big Giant Taffy Pull,” questions the potential value of the conversations in the blogosphere because they don’t seem to be resulting in actual changes in the real, non-virtual world. He asks some good questions: How many of us that blog receive comments on our posts, other than spam? Comments,…
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Job hunt blog
I started a new project Monday night and this evening I have titled my “Job hunt blog.” I did detail the reasons more specifically as a post within the blog, but basically I needed to come up with a good purpose for exploring the blogging capabilities of iWeb (part of iLife06 software for Macintosh) and…
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Web 2.0 and conferences
How can web 2.0 technologies be most effectively leveraged to maximize interaction and participant benefit prior to, during, and after an educational conference? Thoughts that come to my mind on this question are: Sharing links and resources. (social bookmarking with a common tag could help.) Identifying issues and concerns via a blog. Sharing actual session…