1/15/07 Update:
What are they? How can I use them in my Classroom?
Here’s the outline of my NYSAIS Professional Development Seminar for Tuesday. Any comments would be appreciated. Bring Blue SnowBall, Get Richardson: Blogs, Wikis and Podcasting. Review last blogging outline:
Goal of Day: Exposure to RSS, Blogs, Poscasting, Social Bookmarking and
Wikis. The ability for participants to take one of these and start using it in classes in the near future.
Quotes:
- “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” Charles Darwin
- The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” — Alvin Toffler, futurist
9:30 – 10:00: Framing the day
Yarn exercise: How you link together in the real world
10:00 – 10:45: RSS: Reading 21st Century Style
Get a Bloglines Account. Search, Subscribe, Comment.
Other rss feed aggregators: NetVibes and Pageflakes
More about RSS:
- Weblog-ed: Will Richardson
- RSS For Educators: K12 Online Conference: Quentin D’Souza
10:45 – 11:00: Break
11:00 – 12:00: Blogging
Blogging Definition: Will Richardson and Others (see Examples below)
Why Blog? What is the difference between 21st Century Learning and 20th Century Learning? Dr. Lawrence Lessig’s “Read/Write Society” presentation at Wizards of OS4
Get an EduBlogs Account — What will you blog about? Linking. Categories. Trackback. Tabbed Browsing and Social Bookmarking.
Blogging Platforms:
Examples…
- A Difference: Math Scribes
- Global Voices
- Teachers Teaching Teachers
- List of Teacher Bloggers
- David Allen’s Blog
- Dan Rubenstein’s Math Blogging
- My Flickr Blogging Group
Educator Social Blogging
Blogging Resources:
- About Blogging From the School Computing Wiki
- Support Blogging.com
- Start Blogging
- Articles and Resources
- Bud the Teacher’s Blogging Wiki – Lots of awesome blogging resources in one place
- “Blog if You Love Learning: An Introduction to Weblogs in Education (Basic)”
- Will Richardson – Why Weblogs, Weblogs in Schools, and the Read Write Web Changes Everything
12:00 – 1:00: Lunch
1:00 – 1:15: Globalism…
1:15 – 1:45: Podcasting
- Check out the iTunes Directory (need iTunes)
- Search using Podzinger
- School Computing Wiki: How to Podcast
Review: Creating a Wiki and Wiki While You Work (Basic): Mark Wagner
Examples:
Possibly: 2:30 – 2:45: Bringing it all Together
We need to model and teach using information in deep ways!
Quotes:
- “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” Charles Darwin
- The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” — Alvin Toffler, futurist
Contact info.
Further Self Guided Learning:
Learning Blog 
Alex,
One additional resource that I would suggest, in addition to bloglines, is something like NetVibes or PageFlakes. I really love NetVibes, since it visually shows the new postings and will enable me to preview the post without having to read it. A really quick and easy way to manage time.
Vinnie
Thanks, Vinnie. I’ll definitely add those in to the list. Your feedback is appreciated!
– Alex
This looks like a very full – and very good – day. You might consider adding Will Richardson’s Morning at RSS-Blog-Furl High School Redux post to the Bringing it all Together portion.
And, while it’s too long for your time allocation, a nice follow-up to the EPIC 2014 video with an education focus to get them thinking might be 2020 Vision. (I say this hesitantly since I’m pointing to my own blog, but it still seems appropriate to what you’re talking about – feel free to ignore.)
The best resource out there at the moment for Widgets, RSS and Search Engines is undoubtedly Protopage and their version3 is superb for caring-n-sharing. Try it out Mel and let’s know if you agree!