Writing for Reconciliation

Using the Tools of the 21st Century

A workshop looking atOnline Publication:

•Blogging•ePortfolios•Online Journals•RSS•Tagging

A New World

Digital commonfolk are online and publishing, not for profit, it seems, but for the love of it, the joy of writing,and to compete for an audience that is,indeed, listening and commenting.

How About You?

•Have you ever blogged or even vlogged?

•Have you ever created an online ePortfolio?

•Do you access information through an RSS feed?

•Do you know anything about del.icio.us?

Blogging

Web Logs (Blogs) are online diaries of thought or experience.

Published

•By date with the most recent at the top

•With comment

•With links to other blogs and sites

•With hypertext, images, and categories

Blogging (2)

Blogs are Online, you don’t blog to CD though you could blog to a network. Therefore you need a special tool to create one. There are a couple that are known as being easy. One of those is http://www.blogger.comAnother one with more features ishttp://wordpress.com/

Learn more about blogging at:http://edtech.tennessee.edu/~set31

ePortfolios

Educause Quarterly recently published an article that began with these stunning words.

“Webfolios may have the most significant effect on education since the introduction of formal schooling. When fully matured and implemented by capable professional educators throughout every discipline in an educational institution, webfolios promise a viable alternative to current high-stakes testing, which focuses education on test-taking rather than teaching and learning.”

ePortfolios (2)

•Collection of artifacts•Validate education, training, skills,

and experience•Individual or group driven•Portable, preservable, and extensible•Lifelong and lifewide

Building Effective Electronic PortfoliosPart I http://edtech.tennessee.edu/~set32Part II http://edtech.tennessee.edu/~set40

RSS

RSS is Really Simple Syndication, really!

"The mainstream media rejoins the people.” –Jeff Jarvis

RSS is a little like a newsie. It delivers the information you want to your front porch (I.e., computer desktop)

A doorbell rings, and your news, not just any news, but “yours” has arrived.

http://edtech.tennessee.edu/~set39

RSS (2)

http://www.rssreader.com

And Others

•Folksonomies (Freetagging)http://del.icio.us/http://www.technorati.com/

•Chats and Chatrooms•Online Journals•Photo Galleries

http://www.flickr.com•And, of course, exchange mechanisms

http://writingforreconciliation.blogspot.com

Example Bloghttp://letters-and-surveys.blogspot.com

Example ePortfoliohttp://elgg.net/betsyd