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A lot of people have asked about the RSS site I am using now. It is called ''Netvibes'' and the URL is [[http://netvibes.com | http://netvibes.com]].
Session Notes
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At the turn of the century, teachers in classrooms across the U.S. and many other parts of the world were becoming acquainted with newly arrived multimedia computers and broadband* access to the Internet. We were exploring new techniques for utilizing these seemingly magical tools to facilitate better teaching and learning. We also recognized the importance of these technologies in preparing our children for what will surely be a future that is heavily influenced by computers and global networks. We explored a wide variety of new web-based instructional services and learned to build webquests* for our students, to provide rich inquiry activities to help students learn to use the Net to teach themselves and to use their growing knowledge and skills to produce new knowledge and valuable information products.
At that giddy time, none of us had heard of Blogs. If we had heard the term, we probably would have envisioned a mass of something that was probably too uninterested in knowing any more about.
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Doug Johnson recently wrote an article about blogging for the media specialist (see citation below). As part of that article, he submitted a list of prominent librarian bloggers, and ed tech bloggers: | |
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School Library Media Alice in Infoland (Alice Yucht) |
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Johnson, Doug. "Blogging & the Media Specialist." Learning & Leading with Technology March 2006. | |
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Session Blogs Last 10 Blog Posts that include classroom, blogging, and warlick:
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Yet today, blogs have become an important and moving force in politics, entertainment, art, religion, and most other aspects of modern society. Blogs were fairly limited to the technorati in early 2004 with growing indications of its potential importance emerging in many likely places. My first blog experience was with a regular publication, called Where is Raed?. Published on a surprisingly steady basis, the author described daily events and details about life in Baghdad in early 2003, as U.S. troops massed on the borders of his country. As people in the U.S. and other countries watched CNN, listened to NPR, and read their favorite daily and weekly news print sources, many of them also tuned into Where is Raed? to learn about how the imminent invasion was affecting the residents of this far away country that we had heard so much about over the last decade.
The Great Discussion
...an ongoing public exchange and cultivation of ideas that was once limited to hired and elected leaders, journalists, and pundits. Today, the discussion is increasingly influenced and contributed to by nearly all walks of people, who observe, reflect, and report – a new society of citizen journalists.
It was not lost on me that I did not know the author of Where is Raed?, nor was there an obvious way to research and prove his authority. However, when I Googled* the title of the popular blog, I immediately received approximately 3,500 web pages that mentioned it. Of the ones that I examined, a vast majority were message boards where people were discussing just this thing -- was the author geninely a citizen of Iraq living in Baghdad, or a college student in Kansas, pulling something over on us. The point is that people were considering and talking about the publication, not just what was being published. They were seeking and discussing information about the information, rather than accepting the information.

This points to another idea that will arise again, that we must no longer assume the authority of the information we use, but, instead, prove the authority. This is a major shift that is critical for our classrooms, not only in what we teach our students, but also how we teach our students.
In the end, a New York Times journalist, Peter Maass, returned to the U.S. shortly after the invasion, and began to read the “Baghdad Blogger”, having returned to his cable modem. As he read through the articles and other references to the author, he learned that Salam Pax, the author’s pseudonym, had worked with an NGO called CIVIC, studied in Vienna, and worked as a translator for several foreign journalists. Peter Maass later reported in SLATE Magazine:
Warlick, David. Classroom Blogging: A Teacher's Guide to the Blogosphere. Raleigh: The Landmark Project, 2005.
The latest 10 blog articles written anywhere that mention classroom and 'blogging'.
- QWEST AzTEA Mini- Grants for K-12 Classroom Technology « Learning ...
Qwest/AzTEA Classroom Technology Integration Competitive Mini-Grants:. The Qwest Foundation has allocated to the AzTEA (Arizona Technology in Education Alliance, Inc) $100000 through a Qwest Foundation for Education Grant to be awarded ...
- 2˘ Worth » Conferences and Krispy Kream
Coming Very Soon Redefining Literacy 2.0, by David Warlick (2008) • Amazon · • Order Form. Classroom Blogging, by David Warlick (2007). Raw Materials for the Mind, by David Warlick (2005) ...
- 21st Century Learning: Planning for 21st Century Instruction
It isn't enough for my colleagues or my students to be engaged and sharing with each other in the isolation of the classroom. Instead we need to understand how to publish our work and ideas to an authentic audience (teachers first and ...
- Never Underestimate the Power of Fate « EDES 501 Web 2.0 Learning Log
By reading the blogs of my fellow classmates, I have been given an amazing amount of ideas on how to use the various Web 2.0 tools in the classroom. I can honestly say that I have learned almost as much about Web 2.0 by reading my ...
- Mr. Rother's Rants and Raves: Wikipedia - David Warlick
A post this morning highlighted a presentation done by David Warlick. I was interested in the name because it seemed so familiar. I took Mr. Byrne's advice from the blog and watched it from about 46 minutes in to hear the section on ...
- Classroom Blogging with a Purpose | Avenue4Learning
I am always extremely encouraged when I hear about teachers who incorporate blogging as a tool for students to reflect and evaluate. There are some really great classroom blogs where teachers have provided some guidelines about blogging ...
- Experiments in Technology: 10-Second Video: Strengthen
Experiments in Technology. Using technology in the classroom is always an experiment. Here's a running record of what I've tried and how it turned out. Tuesday, December 2, 2008. 10-Second Video: Strengthen ...
- A Blog Around The Clock : 2008 Edublog Awards - time to start ...
This is what you need to do: 2008 Nominations Contact Form In order to nominate blogs for the 2008 Edublog Awards you have to link to them first! So, follow these two simple steps to nominate (nominations made without links...
- Astronomy Sites for Classroom Use | Boehman's Blogging Bits
Astronomy Sites for Classroom Use. Posted by: amyboehman | November 20, 2008 |. If you read this blog at all, you know my fascination with astronomy websites. I love space. I wanted to be an astronaut until the Challenger disaster in ...
- Bridging the Chasm between Fantasy and Reality « LifelongLearner ...
The biggest challenge to introducing the power of Web 2.0 tools into every classroom is the time it takes to learn. In Anne Davies blog “Thinking about change – Nov. 7, 2008 , Anne eloquently states:. I think a big part of why educators ...