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Blog If You Love Learning:
Weblogs in EducationLucy Gray & Judy Beaver
Apple Distinguished Educators
1Thursday, January 17, 2008
Welcome
• Workshop wiki:
• http://lucygrayworkshops.wikispaces.com
• Workshop blog:
http://macworldedubloggers.blogspot.com/
• Post a brief intro on the workshop blog.
• Give your email address to Judy or Lucy.
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Workshop Overview• Introductions
• Blogging Basics
• Following Blogs
• Our Favorites
• Best Practices
• Tools
• Bling
• Resources
• Creation
• Reflection
• Evaluation
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KWFDN:Trends, Hotspots, & Dilemmas
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KWFDN:Trends, Hotspots, & Dilemmas
• Gen Y Attributes
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KWFDN:Trends, Hotspots, & Dilemmas
• Gen Y Attributes
• Unbundled Education
4Thursday, January 17, 2008
KWFDN:Trends, Hotspots, & Dilemmas
• Gen Y Attributes
• Unbundled Education
• Participatory Pedagogy
4Thursday, January 17, 2008
KWFDN:Trends, Hotspots, & Dilemmas
• Gen Y Attributes
• Unbundled Education
• Participatory Pedagogy
• Personal Digital Media
4Thursday, January 17, 2008
KWFDN:Trends, Hotspots, & Dilemmas
• Gen Y Attributes
• Unbundled Education
• Participatory Pedagogy
• Personal Digital Media
• Media-Savvy Youth
4Thursday, January 17, 2008
KWFDN:Trends, Hotspots, & Dilemmas
• Gen Y Attributes
• Unbundled Education
• Participatory Pedagogy
• Personal Digital Media
• Media-Savvy Youth
• Technologies of Cooperation
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KWFDN:Trends, Hotspots, & Dilemmas
• Gen Y Attributes
• Unbundled Education
• Participatory Pedagogy
• Personal Digital Media
• Media-Savvy Youth
• Technologies of Cooperation
• Media Rich Pervasive
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Today’s Teen - Born 1990
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First Grade - 19966Thursday, January 17, 2008
Fourth Grade - 1999
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Middle School 2001-2003
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High School - 20049Thursday, January 17, 2008
Sophomore year - 200510Thursday, January 17, 2008
Junior Year 2005-200611Thursday, January 17, 2008
Senior Year - 200712Thursday, January 17, 2008
According to Pew...
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According to Pew...
4 Key Teen Realities:
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According to Pew...
4 Key Teen Realities:
• Teens are technology-rich and enveloped by a wired world.
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According to Pew...
4 Key Teen Realities:
• Teens are technology-rich and enveloped by a wired world.
• Mobile gadgets allow them to enjoy media and communicate anywhere
13Thursday, January 17, 2008
According to Pew...
4 Key Teen Realities:
• Teens are technology-rich and enveloped by a wired world.
• Mobile gadgets allow them to enjoy media and communicate anywhere
• Teens know that ordinary citizens can be publishers, movie makers, artists, song creators, and story tellers
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According to Pew...
4 Key Teen Realities:
• Teens are technology-rich and enveloped by a wired world.
• Mobile gadgets allow them to enjoy media and communicate anywhere
• Teens know that ordinary citizens can be publishers, movie makers, artists, song creators, and story tellers
• Teens are multimedia multi-taskers.
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Margate Park14Thursday, January 17, 2008
Sam
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Presentation Zen16Thursday, January 17, 2008
My Blog17Thursday, January 17, 2008
Objectives• Explore various blogging tools
• Investigate and critique the educational possibilities
• Help you get started with your own
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Blogging Basics
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What is a weblog?• a simple way of publishing
to the web
• requires little technical expertise
• can embed photos, video clips and links in a blog
• posts are displayed in reverse chronological order
• people can respond to entries
• accessible; can make public or private
• can be followed through RSS feeds and a newsreader
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Why?
• publish assignments
• ask questions and invite responses
• record lessons and ideas
• point colleagues to resources
• develop a personal learning network
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Where?• School intranets
• World Wide Web
• Ning
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How?• Free tools
• Blogger
• Blogmeister
• 21Classes
• For purchase
• Typepad
• WordPress
• iWeb
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Blog Vocab• RSS - “A technology that allows web users to receive (ongoing,
constantly updated) information collected from many sources through a simple reader. This is supplied through an “RSS feed” that users can subscribe to.
• Newsreader- a piece of software or web site that allows one to aggregate, organize, and read RSS feeds.
• Tag - a label that can be applied to a blog post to categorize posts and to make content available via search
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Following Blogs
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Google Readerwww.google.com/reader
http://lucygrayworkshops.wikispaces.com/Macworld+Edublogs
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What’s RSS?
RSS in Plain English - Commoncraft
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Our FavesStudentTeacher
AdministratorClass/Project-Based
Video Professional Development
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Lucy’s Criteria• Updated regularly
• Not completely self-promoting
• Rich educational content
• Thoughtful commentary
• Creative projects
• Evidence of student learning
• Compelling graphics
• Clean Design
• Originality
• References kids’ work
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Best Practices
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Tools
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Bling
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Resources
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Creation, Reflection & Evaluation
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Contact Info
Lucy GrayUniversity of Chicago
Center for Urban School Improvementelemenous@gmail.comiChat/AIM: elemenous
http://lucygray.org
Judy BeaverPunahou School
jbeaver@punahou.edu
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“... if we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.”
-John Dewey
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